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GRIEG: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. V – Peer Gynt music – WDR Sym./ Eivand Aadland – Audite

by Audiophile Audition | Apr 12, 2016 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

Conductor Aadland concludes his cycle of Edvard Grieg in colorful style, emphasizing both familiar orchestral and rare vocal works. GRIEG: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. V = Music to Henrik’s Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, Op. 23: At the Wedding; Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter; Six Orchestral Songs; Two Lyric Pieces, Op. 68; The Mountain Thrall, Op. 32; Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 – Camilla Tilling, sop./ Tom Erik Lie, bar./ WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cologne/ Eivand Aadland – Audite multichannel SACD 92.671, 66:26 (11/13/15)  [Distr. by Naxos] ****: Recorded between October 2012 and November 2014, the fifth, final volume of Grieg orchestral works from conductor Aadland embraces less frequent compositions – excepting the Norwegian Dances and a couple of the orchestral songs – of national character and arrangements of Grieg’s own lyrical and elegiac dance tunes. Aadland opens with two excerpts from incidental music for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt: the familiar Prelude to Act I and the Act II, Scene 6 Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter. The Prelude resonates with the forward thrust of the protagonist’s picaresque adventures, alternating with the sad lament from Solveig for the life that they might have shared.   The Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter serves as an […]