Grieg Lyric Pieces - excs. Mendelssohn Songs without words - excs
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Composer or Director: Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn
Label: Références
Magazine Review Date: 4/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 150
Mastering:
Mono
ADD
Catalogue Number: 566775-2

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Movement: No. 2, Waltz (Vals) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Movement: No. 7, Albumleaf (Stambogsblad) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 2, Movement: No. 1, Berceuse |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 2, Movement: No. 3, Melody |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 3 |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 4, Movement: No. 2, Album leaf |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 4, Movement: No. 3, Melody |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 4, Movement: No. 4, Norwegian dance (Halling) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Movement: No. 1, Shepherd boy (Gjaetergut) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Movement: No. 3, March of the Trolls (Troldtog) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Movement: No. 4, Nocturne |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Movement: No. 6, Bellringing (Klokkeklang) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 6, Movement: No. 6, Homesickness (Heimweh) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 7, Movement: No. 3, French serenade (Fransk serenade) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 7, Movement: No. 5, Phantom (Drömmesyn) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 7, Movement: No. 6, Homeward (Hjemad) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 8, Movement: No. 1, From days of youth (Fra ungdomsdagene) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 8, Movement: No. 2, Peasant's song (Bondens sang) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 8, Movement: No. 6, Wedding day at Troldhaugen (Bryllupsdag pagn) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 9, Movement: No. 2, Grandmother's minuet (Bedstemors menuet) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 9, Movement: No. 3, At your feet (For dine födder) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 9, Movement: No. 5, Cradle song (Bådnlåt) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Movement: No. 2, Summer evening (Sommeraften) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Movement: No. 3, Puck (Småtrold) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Movement: No. 4, Peace of the woods (Skovstilhed) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Movement: No. 7, Remembrances (Efterklang) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(3) Pictures from life in the country, Movement: No. 2, The bridal procession passes (Brudefølgetrbi) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Movement: No. 1, Butterfly (Schmetterling) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Movement: No. 2, Lonely wanderer (Einsamer Wanderer) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Movement: No. 4, Little bird (Vöglein) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Movement: No. 6, To the Spring (An den Frühling) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 6, Allegretto con moto in B flat |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Presto in C |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 5, Allegro vivace in A minor, 'Kinderstück' |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 1, Andante con moto in E |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 6, Andante sostenuto in G minor, 'Venetian Gondola Song' (1830) |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 6, Allegretto in F sharp minor, 'Venetian Gond |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 4, Andante in A |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 6, Andante con moto in A flat, 'Duetto' |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 2, Allegro non troppo in E flat |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Presto agitato in G minor |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 4, Adagio in F |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 1, Andante espressivo in G |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 5, Andante in A minor, 'Venetian Gondola Song' |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 6, Andante grazioso in A |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Andante tranquillo in B flat |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 4, Presto in C, 'Spinnerlied: The Bee's Wedding' |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 4, Andante sostenuto in D |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Walter Gieseking, Piano |
Author: Bryce Morrison
Debussy’s sniping view of Grieg’s music as ‘pink fondants stuffed with snow’ is, increasingly, little more than a smart, metropolitan sneer or reduction. The ten books of Lyric Pieces, in particular, form a confessional diary filled with bittersweet confidences, Grieg’s frequent anguish prompted by even temporary exile from his beloved Westland. Gieseking’s magical selection ranges effortlessly through every changing mood, each gem quietly or vivaciously illuminated by his pinpoint, uniquely refined and elegant pianism. His pedalling is both subtle and spare, with an audacious reliance on a velvet-tipped finger legato to achieve a seemingly limitless play of light and shade. ‘Summer’s Eve’, which piquantly combines folkish and impressionist elements, the Shepherd Boy’s near-neurasthenic state of mind or the no less dark-hued romanticism of ‘At your Feet’ are all conjured with a hypersensitive delicacy and fantasy.
In the shorter Mendelssohn selection Gieseking’s care for detail is sometimes obsessive, almost as if the music had been placed under a microscope for relentless scrutiny. His rubato can be like a refined stammer, yet even when the music’s natural flow or ‘line’ is endangered by such sophistication, the results are never less than distinguished. The very close sound contributes to the claustrophobic effect, but the transfers have been excellently managed and no lover of a truly great pianist’s artistry will want to be without this beautifully presented two-disc set.'
In the shorter Mendelssohn selection Gieseking’s care for detail is sometimes obsessive, almost as if the music had been placed under a microscope for relentless scrutiny. His rubato can be like a refined stammer, yet even when the music’s natural flow or ‘line’ is endangered by such sophistication, the results are never less than distinguished. The very close sound contributes to the claustrophobic effect, but the transfers have been excellently managed and no lover of a truly great pianist’s artistry will want to be without this beautifully presented two-disc set.'
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