SACD, Grieg (composer)
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Grieg: Piano Concerto & Incidental Music to 'Peer Gynt'
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Victoria Nava (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Håkon Høgemo (Hardanger Fiddle)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
Gardner and the splendid team tackle the whole work with all the verve and drama one could possible want…But perhaps most illuminating is the contribution of Håkon Høgemo on the Hardanger fiddle,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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…the engineering… is exemplary in every way, conveying the warm acoustics of Bergen's Grieg Hall with thrilling presence. …playing so enchantingly musical that occasionally one might have thought... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hemsing’s elegant taking-flight is signalled beautifully just after the opening piano chords of Op. 8…Trpčescki twinkles and scintillates…the finales are still relatively weak spots in the three... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Grieg: Music for String Orchestra
RecommendedRichard Tognetti (artistic director and lead violin), Richard Tognetti (solo violin)
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Tognetti's masterstroke is to have fully assimilated all the characteristics of Grieg's scoring...Transferring this procedure to the Quartet serves to enhance dramatic impact on its music narrative...The... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Grieg: Piano Concertos
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vassily Sinaisky
Out of repertory that has been celebrated, picked over and just about played to death over the course of almost a century and a half, they create magic…of course, this could only be achieved... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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What [Grieg] does with folk material is so enchanting that, in this beautiful incarnation with the Bergen players delivering so freshly and responding so well to Gardner’s rhythmic drive in... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Grieg: Lyric Pieces & Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
RecommendedDenis Kozhukhin (piano)
Kozhukhin plays Mendelssohn with an almost business-like elegance…the mechanics of this pianist’s impressive hands trump the expressivity of an imagined singer’s voice. Grieg’s straightforwardly... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Grieg - Orchestral Songs
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Ingebjørg Kosmo (mezzo-soprano), Trond Halstein Moe (baritone) & Marita Solberg (soprano)
Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Kor Vest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble), Voci nobili & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
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