Greve: The Palace of the Dreamking & Other Works

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Release Date: 15th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: NV6257
Label: Navona Records
Length: 59 minutes

Greve: The Palace of the Dreamking

Work length11:20

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New Europe Symphony Orchestra
Peter Greve

Greve: Partita for 11 Brass Instruments

Work length6:07

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Zagreb Festival Orchestra Brass Ensemble
Ivan Josip Skender

I. Sinfonia

Track length2:41

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II. Canzon per sonar (Looking Back to Giovanni Gabrieli)

Track length2:31

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III. Motu proprio

Track length0:55

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Greve: Give us Peace

Work length2:20

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Karel Martínek (organ)
Kühn Mixed Choir
Marek Vorlicek

I. Visions of Peace

Track length1:29

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II. Incantation

Track length0:51

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Give Us Peace (Version for Organ & Mixed Choir)

Work length1:16

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III. Joy

Track length1:16

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Give Us Peace (Version for Organ & Mixed Choir)

Work length4:57

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IV. Monody

Track length1:08

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V. Devastation

Track length1:13

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VI. Despair

Track length0:47

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VII. Reconciliation

Track length1:49

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Greve: Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano

Work length12:42

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Yhasmin Valenzuela (clarinet), Leo Eguchi (cello), Karolina Rojahn (piano)

I. Day & Night at Het Bergelt

Track length5:33

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II. Reflection

Track length3:48

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III. Dance

Track length3:21

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Greve: Magic Winter

Work length15:48

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Anthony Armoré

Track length5:10

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II.

Track length6:06

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III.

Track length4:32

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Greve: Aria à la mémoire de M. Francis Poulenc 'Mi-gamin, mi-moine'

Work length4:54

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Ondřej Jurčeka (trumpet), Karel Martínek (organ)

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Peter Greve may be seen as a prime example for music as a late vocation – though it's hard to believe when one hears how deeply his creations root in the bon ton of contemporary musical academia. THE PALACE OF THE DREAMKING offers a cross-section through Greve's eclectic and wildly experimental body of compositional work. The Palace of the Dreamking is, essentially, program music taken to the 21st Century. Greve, who received musical training in his youth, spent his working life as a chemist, and eventually returned to music full-time in his retirement, chose to conduct this scenic rhapsody himself: and it was a good decision. For who could understand a creation better than the creator himself? The title of the following Partita may lull some listener into the false security that they are in for a Baroque feast: not so. Greve instead prefers to demolish hardened expectations by freely expanding the very notion of a partita, scoring it not for a single instrument, but for 11-person brass ensemble in three movements. Just as experimental is Give us Peace, an "Invocation for organ and mixed choir." A work commissioned for the 100th anniversary of a local Dutch church organ, it is profoundly, aptly titled. Based on a quote by St. Peter in the New Testament, it is also conceptually tied to similarly-spirited associations of other major religions. Trio, scored for clarinet, violoncello and piano, was written in memoriam of Greve's good friend's late wife. It is an idiosyncratic, occasionally lyrical, sometimes wistful, sometimes mellow, sometimes cheerful piece of work, which ends with a terpsichorean final movement. Magic Winter draws upon Scandinavian folklore and chronicles the harsh fate of a group of trolls trying to survive the grim Arctic winter. THE PALACE OF THE DREAMKING ends with a tribute to Francis Poulenc, Aria, a work scored for organ and trumpet. No direct musical citations are used; but the spirit of Poulenc lingers over this conclusion like a benevolent spirit.

Greve: The Palace of the Dreamking & Other Works

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