Grieg - The Complete Songs Volume 4 - BIS: BISCD1257 - CD or download

The important item here is the complete set of the Op 33 songs. Only the second song of the Op 33 set, Våren ('Last Spring'), has had many takers – Schwarzkopf and Tauber among them.
The rest... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Aug 2002
Catalogue No: BISCD1257
Label: BIS
Series: Grieg - Complete Songs
Length: 67 minutes

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Grieg: Five Poems to texts by John Paulsen, Op. 26

Work length9:49

$5.00

$6.00

Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

I. Et Hab (Hope)

Track length2:17

$1.00

$1.20

II. Jeg reiste en deilig Sommerkveld (I Travelled One Lovely Summer's Eve)

Track length2:35

$1.00

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III. Den Aergjerrige (Ambition)

Track length1:25

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IV. Med en Primula veris (With a Cowslip)

Track length1:19

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V. Pa Skogstien (On a Forest Path)

Track length2:13

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Grieg: 12 Melodies to poems by A.O. Vinje, Op. 33

Work length32:06

$12.00

$14.40

Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

I. Guten (The Lad)

Track length2:59

$1.00

$1.20

II. Varen (Spring)

Track length6:39

$1.00

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III. Den Saerde (The Wounded One)

Track length2:24

$1.00

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IV. Tytebaeret (The Lingonberry)

Track length1:41

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V. Langs ei A (Along a River)

Track length1:46

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VI. Eit Syn (A Vision)

Track length1:49

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VII. Gamle Mor (Old Mother)

Track length1:56

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VIII. Det fyrste (First Things)

Track length2:24

$1.00

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IX. Ved Rondane (In the Hills)

Track length2:21

$1.00

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X. Et Vennestykke (On Friends)

Track length1:37

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XI. Trudom (Faithfulness)

Track length2:39

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XII. Fyremal (Aims of Life)

Track length3:51

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Grieg: Min lille fugl (My Little Bird)

Work length2:14

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Min lille Fugl (My Little Bird), EG 126

Track length2:14

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Grieg: The Blueberry

Work length2:14

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Blabaeret (The Blueberry), EG 145

Track length2:14

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Grieg: Til L.M. Lindemans Solvbryllup (For L.M. Lindemans's Silver Wedding Anniversary)

Work length4:24

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Til L.M. Lindemans Solvbryllup (For L.M. Lindeman's Silver Wedding), EG 135

Track length4:24

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Grieg: Til kirken hun vandrer (Devoutest of Maidens)

Work length1:47

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Til Kirken hun vandrer (She Walks to the Church), EG 123

Track length1:47

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Grieg: The White and the Red Rose

Work length2:08

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Den hvide, rode Rose (The White and the Red Rose), EG 137

Track length2:08

$1.00

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Grieg: The Odalisque

Work length3:17

$1.00

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Odalisken synger (Song of the Odalisque), EG 131

Track length3:17

$1.00

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Grieg: Paa Hamars Ruiner (On the Ruins of Hamar)

Work length2:13

$1.00

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Pa Hamars Ruiner (On Hamar's Ruins), EG 140

Track length2:13

$1.00

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Grieg: The Lass

Work length2:08

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Jenta (The Girl), EG 141

Track length2:08

$1.00

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Grieg: Til Generalkonsul Chr. Tonsberg (To Chr. Tonsberg)

Work length5:18

$1.00

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Roger Vignoles (piano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

To Generalkonsul Chr. Tonsberg (To Consul General Chr. Tonsberg), EG 136

Track length5:18

$1.00

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2010

The important item here is the complete set of the Op 33 songs. Only the second song of the Op 33 set, Våren ('Last Spring'), has had many takers – Schwarzkopf and Tauber among them.
The rest are lucky to have a single recording in the catalogue, if that.
Grieg had been recovering from the deaths of his parents and was going through a bad patch in his marriage when he set 12 poems by AO Vinje for his Op 33 set, hence their preoccupation with darker themes of mortality and mankind.
Groop does well by them, making full use of her deep mezzo colouring. Her singing is beautiful, sympathetic, typically bringing a sense of calm and understanding to 'The Spring' ('Våren') and stretching to the weightier seriousness needed for a song such as 'First Things' ('Det fyrste').
Groop and accompanist Roger Vignoles are well paired, as both like to let the music flow naturally. This puts them in the opposite corner to Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg, whose award-winning Grieg recital (DG) comes with their personalities stamped on every bar.
Where they're in competition (only three songs here), Von Otter and Forsberg are instantly memorable, achieving lift-off with a tremendous sense of elation in 'Hope' ('Et Håb') from the Op 26 set, albeit at the expense of some pullingaround of the tempo from the pianist. There are people who are resistant to the Swedish couple's bold way with Grieg and for them the more traditional approach of Groop and Vignoles will be preferable. The recording quality is first rate.

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