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Grieg - Music for String Orchestra
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
…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...
Grieg - Music for String Orchestra
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
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Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
…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...
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Contents and tracklist
Work length20:04
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ole Kristian Ruud
- Recorded: June 2004
- Recording Venue: Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
I. Prelude (Version for Strings)
Track length2:47
II. Sarabande (Version for Strings)
Track length4:03
III. Gavotte (Version for Strings)
Track length3:31
IV. Air (Version for Strings)
Track length5:39
V. Rigaudon (Version for Strings)
Track length4:04
Work length9:11
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ole Kristian Ruud
- Recorded: June 2004
- Recording Venue: Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
No. 1: Hjertesar (trans. From Op. 33, No. 3) [the Wounded Heart]
Track length3:21
No. 2: Varen (Last Spring) [trans. From Op. 33, No. 2]
Track length5:50
Work length9:22
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ole Kristian Ruud
- Recorded: June 2004
- Recording Venue: Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
No. 1: Norsk (Norwegian) [trans. From Op. 33, No. 12] [Version for orchestra]
Track length4:32
No. 2: Det forste Mote (the First Meeting) [trans. From Op. 21, No. 1] [Version for orchestra]
Track length4:50
Work length12:12
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ole Kristian Ruud
- Recorded: June 2004
- Recording Venue: Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
No. 1: I folketonestil (Popular Song) [trans. From a melody by Fredrik Due] [Version for orchestra]
Track length7:32
No. 2: Kulokk - Stabbelaten (Cow Keepers' Tune - Country Dance) [trans. From Op. 17, No. 22 and 18] [Version for orchestra]
Track length4:40
Grieg:
2 Lyric Pieces, Op. 68
Work length8:20
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ole Kristian Ruud
- Recorded: June 2004
- Recording Venue: Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
No. 1: Aften pa Hoyfjellet (Evening in the Mountains) [trans. From Op. 68, No. 4] [Version for orchestra]
Track length4:00
No. 2: Badnlat (At the Cradle) [trans. From Op. 68, No. 5] [Version for orchestra]
Track length4:20
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Edvard Grieg
3rd Apr 2015
David picks some of the best recordings of the works of the Norwegian Romantic nationalist, Edvard Grieg.
Awards and reviews
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Penguin GuideRosette
February 2006
…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 Barbirolli was at the helm.
March 2006
Bergen musicians have lived with these scores since their creation and all the performances here, unfussily recorded in the rich, woody acoustic of the city's Grieg Halle in June 2004, have a relaxed, idiomatic naturalness in their virtuosity.
2011 edition
This is simply the most beautiful recording of Grieg's string music in the catalogue and one of the most beautiful and realistic recordings of strings we have yet heard...The wonderfully vital account of the Holberg Suite is unsurpassed...The surround sound is in a class of its own.
