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Morning Mood: Solo Piano Music Of Edvard Grieg

Gerard Willems

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: 4811699

Release Date:  27 May 2016

Label:  Australian Broadcasting Corporation / Australian Broadcasting Corp

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  028948116997

Genres:  Classical  

Release Date:  05 July 2021

Label:  Abc Classic / Australian Broadcasting Corp

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  0028948116997

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    ARIA Award-winning Australian pianist Gerard Willems presents an essential album of the enchanting piano music of Edvard Grieg.

    Grieg wrote for the piano with profound love and affection, creating miniature masterpieces that glow with the rich beauty of the Norwegian countryside. Intimate yet expansive, bold yet delicate, they reveal the full extent of his musical genius: passionately Romantic, exquisitely Impressionist, fiercely patriotic and utterly human.

    This double album features some of Grieg's best-loved piano works, including the complete Holberg Suite, highlights from Peer Gynt, and Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Reaching from Grieg's student days as a teenager at the Leipzig Conservatorium to his final years in the tranquillity of his country retreat, this landmark collection traces in music the life of a true master of the piano.

    This is the first all-Australian recording of Grieg's piano music – featuring an Australian pianist, an Australian recording venue (the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) and an Australian piano. Made by the legendary piano-makers Stuart & Sons, the instrument has an individual sound and extraordinary clarity of tone, sustain and dynamic range.

    Description

    ARIA Award-winning Australian pianist Gerard Willems presents an essential album of the enchanting piano music of Edvard Grieg.

    Grieg wrote for the piano with profound love and affection, creating miniature masterpieces that glow with the rich beauty of the Norwegian countryside. Intimate yet expansive, bold yet delicate, they reveal the full extent of his musical genius: passionately Romantic, exquisitely Impressionist, fiercely patriotic and utterly human.

    This double album features some of Grieg's best-loved piano works, including the complete Holberg Suite, highlights from Peer Gynt, and Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Reaching from Grieg's student days as a teenager at the Leipzig Conservatorium to his final years in the tranquillity of his country retreat, this landmark collection traces in music the life of a true master of the piano.

    This is the first all-Australian recording of Grieg's piano music – featuring an Australian pianist, an Australian recording venue (the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) and an Australian piano. Made by the legendary piano-makers Stuart & Sons, the instrument has an individual sound and extraordinary clarity of tone, sustain and dynamic range.

  • Tracklisting

    1. From Holberg?s Time ? Suite
    6. The First Meeting
    7. Solveig?s Song
    8. Solveig?s Song
    9. The Lad And The Lass In The Cow-Shed Loft
    10. Funeral March For Ridard Nordraak
    11. Six Poetic Tone Pictures
    17. Album Leaf No. 3
    18. A Mother?s Grief
    19. I Love Thee
    20. Resignation
    21. Cradle Song
    22. Cradle Song
    23. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
    2.1. Arietta
    2.2. Arietta
    2.3. Elves? Dance
    2.4. Norwegian
    2.5. 5 Lullaby
    2.6. Butterfly
    2.7. Lonely Wanderer
    2.8. In My Homeland
    2.9. Little Bird
    2.10. To Spring
    2.11. To Spring
    2.12. Melody
    2.13. Halling
    2.14. Halling
    2.15. March Of The Trolls
    2.16. Nocturne
    2.17. Bell Ringing
    2.18. Homesickness
    2.19. French Serenade
    2.20. Phantom
    2.21. Peasant Song
    2.22. Wedding Day At Troldhaugen
    2.23. Grandmother?s Minuet
    2.24. Evening In The Mountains
    2.25. Once Upon A Time
    2.26. Puck
    2.27. Puck
    2.28. Remembrances