Grieg - Symphonic Works Vol.2 (LP) | Audite AUDITE82502

Grieg - Symphonic Works Vol.2 (LP)

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE82502

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 12th January 2015

Contents

Artists

WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln

Conductor

Eivind Aadland

Works

Grieg, Edvard

Funeral March in memory of Rikard Nordraak, EG117
Holberg Suite, op.40
Lyric Suite, op.54
» no.6 Bell-Ringing (Klokkeklang)
Peer Gynt: Suite no.2, op.55

Artists

WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln

Conductor

Eivind Aadland

About

The LP 'Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Works Vol.2' presents more highlights from Audite’s complete edition of Grieg’s symphonic works on 180g vinyl in audiophile LP sound.

Each LP purchase includes a voucher for a free mp3 and HD stereo download of these works: Audite would like to offer access to digital and mobile listening to all its LP devotees.

“The time has come to step forward with a work which is notable in both form and content” - these were the words of Edvard Grieg’s publisher, reminding the composer of the major genres of the time: symphony, oratorio, opera. But Grieg did not feel the need to write another symphony and another opera in the Middle European style. He wanted to give Norway its unique voice within European concert repertoire. And he did that with songs and piano pieces – and particularly with his symphonic works, released by Audite in a five-part complete recording with Eivind Aadland and the WDR Symphony Orchestra.

Eivind Aadland’s roots in the tradition of Norwegian folk music audibly influence his interpretations. He comes from a family where Norwegian folk music played an important role, and even as a child he came into intensive contact with Grieg’s music. Ideal prerequisites, therefore, to rediscover Grieg’s symphonic works against the background of this tradition.

Grieg’s connections with Germany stretch from his studies in Leipzig to his numerous concert performances in that country. Added to that is the extraordinary circulation of his works in Germany. This recording with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne therefore also represents on several levels a German-Norwegian synthesis which had already been in existence during Grieg’s lifetime.

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