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Norwegian composer and pianist (1908-1981)
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2024-04-05 09:27:00
Sea Songs: Brighton Philharmonic in Geirr Tveitt's Hardanger fiddle concerto and other delights
Ragnhild Hemsing and Hardanger fiddle (Photo: Nikolaj Lund)On Sunday, 7 April 2024, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's season finale at the Dome in Brighton features dynamic young conductor Adam Hickox in Sea Songs. Yes, the programme does begin with Britten's Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' and ends with Debussy's La Mer (written just down the coast in Eastbourne!), but the real meat is in between these. Ragnhild Hemsing is the Hardanger fiddle soloist in Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's Concerto No. 2 Three Fjords, whilst Joanna Macgregor is the piano soloist in music by the great Japanese film composer, record producer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died last year.The hardanger fiddle is Norway's national instrument; it probably originated in the 17th century s a hybrid of earlier folk fiddles and the viola d’amore. Its tone is smaller than the violin and‚ with its four sympathetic strings‚ sounds not unlike a treble viol. Geir Tveitt (1908-1981) was a central figure […]
2024-01-27 09:59:00
A winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival
[…] 2025 festival are there for us to appreciate, though again Numa emphasises the idea of an on-going journey so things may change.Central to the 2025 festival is pianist Evgeny Kissin's Shostakovich 2025 project where, over two nights, he and friends explore Shostakovich's songs and chamber music with piano. Other visitors will include Fazil Say performing Bach's Goldberg Variations, chansonier HK Gruber with pianist Kirill Gerstein, Leif Ove Andsnes in two Norwegian composers, Grieg and Geirr Tveitt, and Kiveli Dörken in chamber music by Mahler, Brahms, Dvorak and Suk. Pianist Yunchan Lim will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Martha Argerich will be performing, with friends, in as yet undecided programmes and there will be a recital from one of the finalists of the Concours Geza Anda 2024. Argerich is on the jury of the competition and will select one of the finalists to perform. She will also be performing in […]
2023-02-17 00:00:00
Grieg, Halvorsen, Rangstrom, Ravel, Saeverud, Selmer, Svendsen & Tveitt: Orchestral Works (Michail Jurowski & Sigurd Slåttebrekk)
Norwegian Heartland:1.01, 1.06, 2.06 & 2.11 Four Traditional Songs * [3'32]1.02, 1.07, 1.14, 2.04, 2.05, 2.07, 2.08, & 2.12 Geirr Tveitt: 100 Folk-tunes from Hardanger, op.151 - No.1, No.14, No.60, No.26, No.66, No.12, No.9 & No.47 [22'44]1.03 Johan Svendsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No. 4, op.22 [12'19]1.04 Harald Saeverud: Rondo Amoroso, op.14a no.7 [4'45]1.05 Johan Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2 in G major [11'35] 1.08 - 1.13 Harald Saeverud: Peer Gynt. Suite No. 1, op.28 ^ [36'46]1.15 Johan Halvorsen: Bergensiana. Rococo Variations on an Old Tune from Bergen [11'10]2.01 - 2.03 Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16 ~ [29'05]2.09 Johan Halvorsen: Bojarenes Intogsmarsj 'Entry of the Boyars' [4'44]2.10 Johan Svendsen: Norsk Kunstnerkarneval 'Norwegian Artist's Carnival', op.14 [6'18]2.13 Harald Saeverud: Her Last Cradle Song, op.22a no.3 [3'10]2.14 Harald Saeverud: Canto Rivoltoso, op.22a no.5 [6'27]Arve Moen Bergset- vocal*; Isa Katharina Gericke- soprano^; Sigurd Slåttebrekk- piano~; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michail JurowskiSimax PSC1260 […]
2020-01-24 00:00:00
Bjarte Engeset: Grieg - Complete Orchestral Works
Edvard Grieg - Complete Orchestral Works (Eight discs)Havard Gimse- piano*; Inga Dam-Jensen- soprano & Palle Knudsen- baritone #; Frøydis Armand- narrator^; Soloists, Malmo Chamber Choir & Lund Choral School Chorus; all conducted by Bjarte Engeset.Naxos 8.508015 (recorded 2003 to 2013; this CD set issued 2014)(digital download; flacs, booklets, cover and inlay scans)Disc One:01. In Autumn. Concert Overture:, op.11 [11'06]02. - 04. Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16* [29'23]05. - 08. Symphonic Dances, op.64 - [31.17]Disc Two:01. - 03. (arr. Øistein Sommerfeldt) Slåtter. Suite for Orchestra, op.72 [9'09]04. - 07. (arr. Hans Sitt) Norwegian Dances, op.35 [17'34]08. (arr. Johan Halvorsen) Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak, op.73 [7'48]09. (arr. Johan Halvorsen) The Bridal Procession Passes By, op.19 no.2 [3'38]10. (arr. Geirr Tveitt): Ballade, op.24 [19'35]11. Bell-Ringing from 'Lyric Pieces - Book 5', op.54 no.6 [4'27]Disc Three:01. - 4. Symphony in C minor, EG 119 [32:48]05. Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, op.51 […]
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