Grieg - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (from Lyric Pieces Op. 65)
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Instrumental » Piano Solos
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Hough is up there with the best; may we never take his excellence for granted. ..Hough's detachment - it's a small thing - is also telling in its way, the detail and overview consistently in... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. Grieg: Lyric Pieces & Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
RecommendedDenis Kozhukhin (piano)
Kozhukhin plays Mendelssohn with an almost business-like elegance…the mechanics of this pianist’s impressive hands trump the expressivity of an imagined singer’s voice. Grieg’s straightforwardly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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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’,... —
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Andsnes penetrates the psyche of this music, and his playing of consummate artistry and insight. Not only does he have keen poetic feeling but magisterial pianistic finesse. —
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Building a Library, May 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grieg: Chasing the Butterfly
Sigurd Slåttebrekk (Grieg's own piano at Troldhaugen), Edvard Grieg (piano, 1903 acoustic recordings)
Oslo Philharmonic, Michail Jurowski
Primitive recording technology had previously rendered these precious historical documents musically indecipherable, but thanks to the painstaking efforts of producer Tony Harrison they now... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Janina Fialkowska is one of today's most dependable pianists - bold, poetic, virtuosic and very much more…[the] cornucopian approach poses special challenges to the imagination, and technique,... —
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Apekisheva has fabulous technique, with lovely rounded sound and deeply wrought legato… —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Grieg & Sibelius Favourites ‘From Fjord & Forest’
RPO & New Symphony Orchestra of London, Charles Mackerras
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