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Composer: Edvard Grieg
- In Autumn, Op. 11
- Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: 1. Allegro molto moderato
- Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: 2. Adagio
- Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: 3. Allegro moderato molto e marcato
- Symphony in C minor, EG 119: 1. Allegro molto
- Symphony in C minor, EG 119: 2. Adagio espressivo
- Symphony in C minor, EG 119: 3. Intermezzo. Allegro energico
- Symphony in C minor, EG 119: 4. Finale. Allegro molto vivace
Noriko Ogawa, piano (2-4)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor
Date: 2002
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/performers/ogawa-noriko/grieg-piano-concerto
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Review
An overture, concerto and symphony make for either a selective or
ideal concert hall sequence; such are the advantages of modern
recordings. This exemplary disc also offers us an opportunity to sample
Grieg’s virtues and limitations under the best possible conditions, for
performances and recording are both outstanding.
Central to all
three works is Grieg’s love of his homeland, of western Norway as
exemplified in his frequent use of folksong and dance elements. He may
have written: ‘I didn’t want to be merely Norwegian, much less
super-Norwegian. I just wanted to be…myself.’ But at the same time he
could also write of how the composer Ole Bull ‘opened my eyes to the
beauty and originality in Norwegian music. Through him I became
acquainted with many forgotten folksongs and above all with my own
nature. Had it not been for Ole Bull’s fortunate influence I would have
written colourless music à la Gade.’
That last swipe at the Dane Niels Gade understandable after the latter’s alternate dismissal and praise for In Autumn
and a generally patronising attitude. Although Grieg is still
frequently referred to as essentially a miniaturist uncomfortable in the
larger forms, the melodic beauty, warmth and sincerity of his writing
often makes such considerations more academic than pertinent. Grieg may
not have been a ‘musical Christ’ (Tchaikovsky’s description of Mozart)
but all three works here contain melodies of a related familiar cut and
glow. Grieg may have written ‘not to be performed’ on the score of his
Symphony but fortunately it was not destroyed and was later performed in
1980 in Moscow and a year later at the Bergen Festival, where it
received its first recording.
All the performances on this CD are
given with such zest and affection that all possible criticism is swept
aside. Norika Ogawa is a distinguished soloist in the Concerto; her
musicianship and dexterity are immaculate, her interpretation quite
without the mannerisms or idiosyncrasies that so often disfigure the
readings of other more obviously celebrated names. She flashes through
the presto passage announcing the cadenza like a meteor and both
she and Ole Kristian Ruud and the Bergen Philharmonic are hauntingly
sensitive in the central Adagio. An added note concerning the DSD
(Direct Stream Digital) technology used rightly claims that it leads
‘to an enhancement in clarity and transparency of sound’.
-- Bryce Morrison, Gramophone
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Edvard Grieg (15 June 1843, Bergen – 4 September 1907, Bergen) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum. He is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues depicting his image, and many cultural entities named after him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg
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Noriko Ogawa (born 1962 in Kawasaki) is a Japanese classical pianist, based in London. She studied at the Tokyo College of Music (1977–80) and the Juilliard School in New York (1981–5), and later with Benjamin Kaplan. Since 1997 Ogawa has been an exclusive recording artist for BIS Records. She has collaborated in a piano duo with British pianist Kathryn Stott since 2001 and has a longstanding collaboration with clarinetist Michael Collins. Ogawa also worked closely with Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu.
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Ole Kristian Ruud (born 2 October 1958, Lillestrøm) is a Norwegian
conductor. He studied clarinet with Richard Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy. Ruud was principal conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. He has been professor of conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music since 1999. In 2005, he completed recording the complete orchestral works of Grieg with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, for BIS records.
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