Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music

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[Haugtassa] Booth and Glynn find the right tone for each song...as an overall program, intelligently put together and attractively performed, this new disc will bring pleasure to Grieg lovers... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Release Date: 6th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: AV2403
Label: Avie
Length: 71 minutes

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Grieg: Den hvide, røde Rose (The White and the Red Rose) EG 137

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Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 6 - Norwegian

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Christopher Glynn

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 5 - Folk Tune

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Christopher Glynn

Grieg: Mens jeg venter (On the Water), Op. 60 No. 3

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Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 1 - Sylph

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Grieg: Med en vandlije, Op. 25 No. 4

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Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 43: No. 1 - Butterfly

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Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 47: No. 3 - Melody

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Grieg: The Princess, EG133

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Grieg: Dulgt Kjaerlighed, Op. 39 No. 2

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Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 6 - Homeward

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Grieg: Haugtussa, Op. 67

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I. Det Syng

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II. Veslemøy

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III. Blåbaer-Li

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IV. Møte

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V. Elsk

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VI. Killingdans

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VII. Vond Dag

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VIII. Ved Gjætle-Bekken

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Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 5 - Phantom

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Grieg: Hjertets Melodier af H. C.Andersen, Op. 5 No. 3 'Jeg elsker Dig'

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Grieg: Når jeg vil dø from Elegiske Digte, Op. 59 No. 1

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Grieg: Den Aergjerridge, Op. 26, No. 3

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Grieg: Vanished Days (from Lyric Pieces Op. 57)

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Grieg: Ved en ung Hustrus Båre, Op. 39 No. 5

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Grieg: Bell-Ringing (from Lyric Pieces Op. 54)

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Grieg: Stambogsrim (Verses in an Album), Op. 25 No. 3

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Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 1 - Arietta

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Christopher Glynn

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Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn trace an arc through Edvard Grieg's Lyric Music, interspersing vocal miniatures with solo piano pieces that range in mood from bright, youthful innocence to shades of autumnal twilight. Following their acclaimed collaboration in Percy Grainger's Folk Music (AV2372), soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn turn to the Lyric Music of Edvard Grieg, an apt sequel as the elder composer befriended Grainger who idolised the Norwegian's folkloric idiom immediately on their first encounter in London in 1906. Interspersing intimate vocal miniatures with lyrical solo piano pieces, Claire and Christopher mirror many of the programmes that Grieg and his wife Nina performed on their many recital tours together. Each of the works on Lyric Music tells a story, as does the album as a whole, ranging in mood from bright, youthful innocence to shades of autumnal twilight. Sung in the original Norwegian, Claire's and Christopher's performances are as evocative as Norway's varied landscape. CRITICAL ACCLAIM "it's that sparkle that they give, it's the care, it's the attention to detail, it's the love of the music and the incredible characters that they manage to draw out of every song that makes this disc really quite a stand out" - BBC Radio 3's Record Review, Best of 2017 (on Percy Grainger Folk Music, AV2372) "disarming and engaging" - The Guardian "great verve and passion" - Reader's Digest

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March/April 2020

[Haugtassa] Booth and Glynn find the right tone for each song...as an overall program, intelligently put together and attractively performed, this new disc will bring pleasure to Grieg lovers and others. The recorded sound is well balanced and natural in its perspective.

November 2019

Booth and Glynn are certainly on fire here. The solo piano items tell a real story – Grieg’s very own ‘Lieder ohne Worte’...This new recital, strongly recommended, contributes greatly to the catalogues as a kind of heightened guide both to Grieg’s song-writing and the still unsuspected range of his Lyric Pieces.

24th October 2019

It’s built around the song cycle Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid), eight settings of poems from the verse novel by Arne Garborg, which Booth and Glynn’s vividly characterised performance shows to be a little-known gem. They frame it with interwoven sequences of songs and the solo piano work Lyric Pieces, each delivered with irrepressible energy, wit and finesse.

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music

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