Grieg Piano Concerto; Peer Gynt Suites
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Composer or Director: Edvard Grieg
Label: Chandos Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/1990
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABRD1375

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Peer Gynt |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Lyric Suite |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Margaret Fingerhut, Piano Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Edvard Grieg
Label: Chandos Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/1990
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABTD1375

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Peer Gynt |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Lyric Suite |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Margaret Fingerhut, Piano Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Edvard Grieg
Label: Chandos Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/1990
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 56
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN8735

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Peer Gynt |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Lyric Suite |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Margaret Fingerhut, Piano Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, Conductor |
Author: Alan Blyth
All through this is a dark-hued, inward reading, but it never falls into the trap of drawing out tempo to extremes. ''Absence'', at a half a minute quicker than either Baker (EMI) or Crespin (Decca), is finely shaped, Greevy managing the repeat of ''reviens'' quite beautifully with her sustained mezza voce. There are drawbacks. In the first song, ''Villanelle'', the tone often takes on an uncomfortable edge; ''Le spectre de la rose'' suffers &om this to a lesser extent. Maybe these songs were committed to disc earlier than the others before the artist had reached her best form, a pity they weren't remade. Even so, I think it is a version that is even more naturally phrased than Baker's and seriously challenges Crespin's hegemony. It is certainly to be preferred to those made by more illustrious singers in the 1980s, though not to Sir Colin Davis's mixed voiced version from the 1970s (Philips (CD) 416 961-2PH, 9/88) or to van Dam's version of the piano edition (reviewed on page 1366).
Almost half the record is taken up with Duparc's orchestral versions of his own songs. These form an entirely apt pendant to the Berlioz for in a sense they carry forward the same tradition, Duparc adding his own particular kind of romanticism to the genre. Predictably, Greevy and Tortelier are just as at home here. The mezzo arrestingly contrasts the sad reflections of Chanson triste with the wild fury, then louring calm of Le manoir de Rosemonde. She doesn't linger too lovingly over the wonderful
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