Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces

Donohoe, with a devotion to Grieg’s music dating back to his early years, clearly has the measure of this repertoire. He gets inside the gentler pieces, such as ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Summer Evening’,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 10th Jun 2022
Catalogue No: CHAN20254
Label: Chandos
Length: 82 minutes

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

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 57: No. 4 - Secret

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 7 - Album leaf

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 2 - Waltz

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 65: No. 2 - Bondens sang

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 57: No. 2 - Gade

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 71: No. 4 - Peace in the woods

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 43: No. 6 - To Spring

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 43: No. 3 - In der Heimat

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 4 - Brooklet

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 4 - Dance of the Fairies

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 65: No. 3 - Tungsind

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Puck (from Lyric Pieces Op. 71)

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 38: No. 8 - Canon

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Summer's Eve (from Lyric Pieces Op. 71)

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Album Leaf (from Lyric Pieces Op. 47)

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 47: No. 5 - Melancholy

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Peter Donohoe

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

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 38: No. 3 - Melodie

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 54: No. 5 - Scherzo

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Peter Donohoe

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

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 54: No. 1 - Shepherd's boy

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (from Lyric Pieces Op. 65)

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 43: No. 5 - Erotikon

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Nocturne (from Lyric Pieces Op. 54)

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 68: No. 6 - Waltz

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Peter Donohoe

Grieg: Norwegian Dance, Op. 71 No. 5

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Peter Donohoe

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If Chopin invented the Mazurka, then surely by the same token Grieg invented the Lyric Piece. Over his lifetime he published ten volumes of Lyric Pieces, containing sixty-six individual works. Born in Bergen, Grieg studied in Leipzig and became established as Norways leading composer, successfully synthesising Norwegian folk music with the forms and conventions of the German tradition. While he was internationally acclaimed for his Piano Concerto and the incidental music to Peer Gynt, the vast majority of his output lies not in large-scale works, but in smaller, more intimate forms, especially songs and, of course, his Lyric Pieces. Peter Donohoe writes: as a teenager I expanded my knowledge of the music of Grieg to include many solo piano pieces as well as the better-known orchestral works. I was beguiled by his style, and the reason remains somewhat intangible. Although one is able to identify the originality of Grieg as a composer the Norwegian folk element in his music, his natural gift for memorable melodic lines, his occasional diversions into unique and extraordinarily forward-looking harmonies, and, to some degree, his emotional navet there is a unique, unidentifiable kernel in his output that defies analysis, as is true of the work of all the great composers... All these works are pristine examples of his diverse and original style Norwegian with a Germanic flavour and it has been a huge and satisfying pleasure to return to them to create this and future recordings.

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August 2022

Donohoe, with a devotion to Grieg’s music dating back to his early years, clearly has the measure of this repertoire. He gets inside the gentler pieces, such as ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Summer Evening’, with beautifully poised playing. Grieg in his more overtly national mood, as in the famous and virtuoso ‘Halling’, is presented with infectious enjoyment and the simpler pieces are never patronised.

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