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Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works

Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)

Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works
Smiseth makes a strong impression on her disc debut, showing herself to be a sensitive musician with a fine sense of color and an ability to draw out the music’s harmonic nuances without exaggerating...

Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022

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Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Piano Works

Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)

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Smiseth makes a strong impression on her disc debut, showing herself to be a sensitive musician with a fine sense of color and an ability to draw out the music’s harmonic nuances without exaggerating...

Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022

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Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as one of the 19th century’s greatest virtuoso pianists, Agathe Backer Grøndahl was also a pioneer among women composers, juggling marriage, motherhood and an extensive career. She was taught by Liszt in Weimar, and as one of Norway’s most respected composer-pianists, created a large body of work that displays colourful stylistic variety and poetic breadth. The beautiful Sérénade from Trois Morceaux, Op. 15 may well be Backer Grøndahl’s most popular piano composition, but her concert études are virtuoso masterpieces – the folk-tune arrangements drawn from her Op. 30 and Op. 33 sets illustrate her perceptive absorption of her country’s folk music. The remarkable fairy-tale suite I blaafjellet, Op. 44 is possibly the first impressionist piece by a Norwegian composer.

Contents and tracklist

Backer Grøndahl: Suite, Op. 20
Work length3:12
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
I. Prélude
Track length3:12
Backer Grøndahl: Trois morceaux (Three pieces) for piano, Op. 15
Work length2:44
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Sérénade
Track length2:44
Backer Grøndahl: Concert-Études (2), Op. 57
Work length3:13
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Allegretto
Track length3:13
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length3:19
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Brudeslaat
Track length3:19
Backer Grøndahl: Idylles (6), Op. 24
Work length2:17
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Allegretto leggiero
Track length2:17
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length7:47
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 9, Siklebækken
Track length3:00
No. 10, Kivlemøyerne
Track length2:42
No. 11, Fanitullen
Track length2:05
Backer Grøndahl: Idylles (6), Op. 24
Work length3:14
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 5, Allegretto tranquillo
Track length3:14
Backer Grøndahl: Fantasistykker (6), Op. 66 'Barnlige billeder'
Work length1:02
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Ride, ride ranke
Track length1:02
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length1:34
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 3, Laat i fjellet
Track length1:34
Backer Grøndahl: Ungarske studier (3), Op. 38
Work length2:41
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 2, Intermezzo
Track length2:41
Backer Grøndahl: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 39
Work length2:02
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Souvenir
Track length2:02
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length1:35
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 8, Bruralaat
Track length1:35
Backer Grøndahl: Fire Skizzer (Four Sketches) for piano, Op. 19
Work length2:28
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Allegretto leggiero
Track length2:28
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length0:53
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 1, Halling
Track length0:53
Backer Grøndahl: 12 Smaa fantasistykker for Piano, Op. 55 (Excerpts)
Work length1:57
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 4, Et farvel
Track length1:57
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length1:11
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 6, Springdans
Track length1:11
Backer Grøndahl: Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30
Work length0:35
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 5, Springdans
Track length0:35
Backer Grøndahl: Suite, Op. 20
Work length3:53
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
II. Nocturne
Track length3:53
Backer Grøndahl: Huldreslaat
Work length2:01
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
Backer Grøndahl: Smaa fantasistykker for Piano (12), Op. 55
Work length1:07
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 9, Romance
Track length1:07
Backer Grøndahl: I blaafjellet, Op. 44
Work length4:41
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 2, I trollhallen
Track length4:41
Backer Grøndahl: Études de concert (6), Op. 11
Work length6:34
  • Sara Aimée Smiseth (piano)
No. 4, Allegretto
Track length6:34

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Sep/Oct 2022

Smiseth makes a strong impression on her disc debut, showing herself to be a sensitive musician with a fine sense of color and an ability to draw out the music’s harmonic nuances without exaggerating them.
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