Grieg: Piano Works
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Composer or Director: Edvard Grieg
Magazine Review Date: 7/1988
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 74
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: OCD197
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Ballade, 'in the form of variations on a Norwegian melody' |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Transcriptions of Original Songs I, Movement: Cradle Song (Op. 9/2) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Transcriptions of Original Songs I, Movement: I love thee (Op. 5/3) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Transcriptions of Original Songs I, Movement: The Princess |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Transcriptions of Original Songs II, Movement: The poet's heart (Op. 5/2) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Transcriptions of Original Songs II, Movement: Solveig's song (Op. 23/19) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Sonata for Piano |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Movement: No. 3, March of the Trolls (Troldtog) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Movement: No. 4, Nocturne |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Lyric Pieces, Book 8, Movement: No. 6, Wedding day at Troldhaugen (Bryllupsdag pagn) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
| Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Movement: No. 4, Peace of the woods (Skovstilhed) |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Peter Katin, Piano |
Author:
This generously filled and enterprisingly planned disc was recorded in Norway last January, and the engineers have obtained a very good quality of sound to capture Katin's direct, purposeful and imaginative playing. Katin himself has supplied a very helpful set of written notes for the disc, and he even took the photograph which appears on the cover.
Grieg arranged several of his songs for piano solo in two sets, and Katin has chosen five wellcontrasted examples. The arrangements were made quite freely and sometimes with quite elaborate embellishments, and have a distinct character of their own. Katin responds sympathetically to their varied moods, and he shapes the melody ofSolveig's Song with a particularly affecting delicacy. Grieg often favoured variation form and the Ballade is based on a Norwegian folk-song. These variations have quite a sombre character which no doubt reflects Grieg's feelings on the recent loss of both his parents, and Katin brings out well their predominating darkness of mood. The early sonata seems to me a much lesser, more conventional work, but Grieg thought well enough of it to make a revision in middle age; and indeed he played the last two movements of the work at his only recording session, which took place in 1903. Katin's notes reveal his own high opinion of the Sonata, and I would only disagree with his sedate tempo in the finale, marked molto allegro. Grieg's own tempo in this movement is a good deal faster.
Only at the end of his recital does Katin turn to well-known repertoire in a selection from the Lyric Pieces. The basic tempo for ''Wedding day at Troldhaugen'' seems a trifle hasty to me, but otherwise I found the playing quite admirable.'
Grieg arranged several of his songs for piano solo in two sets, and Katin has chosen five wellcontrasted examples. The arrangements were made quite freely and sometimes with quite elaborate embellishments, and have a distinct character of their own. Katin responds sympathetically to their varied moods, and he shapes the melody of
Only at the end of his recital does Katin turn to well-known repertoire in a selection from the Lyric Pieces. The basic tempo for ''Wedding day at Troldhaugen'' seems a trifle hasty to me, but otherwise I found the playing quite admirable.'
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