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Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Edvard Grieg, Leif Ove Andsnes
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 24791
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 57296
UPC: 724355729620
EAN: 0724355729620
ASIN: B00005UUOC
Release Date: March 12, 2002
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Condition: This cd is in mint FACTORY SEALED condition with a saw mark on the spine.
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| Tracks:
| • | No.1 Arietta | | • | No.2 Waltz | | • | No.6 Norwegian Melody | | • | No.5 Folk Melody | | • | No.8 Canon | | • | No.6 Elegy | | • | No.7 Waltz | | • | No.3 Melody | | • | No.3 March Of The Trolls | | • | No.4 Notturno | | • | No.2 Gade | | • | No.3 Illusion | | • | No.6 Homesickness | | • | No.6 Homeward | | • | No.4 The Brook | | • | No.5 Phantom | | • | No.1 Sylph | | • | No.5 Cradle Song | | • | No.6 Wedding Day At Troldhaugen | | • | No.4 Evening In The Mountains | | • | No.3 At Your Feet | | • | No.2 Summer Evening | | • | No.6 Gone | | • | No.7 Remembrances |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Grieg's 66 Lyric Pieces range from simple pretty tunes like the early "Arietta" that opens this disc to more extended pieces like the dashing "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" to impressionistic miniature tone poems like the late "Summer Evening." Here, Andsnes plays 24 of them, well-chosen to cover a representative selection from the complete sets. He plays them beautifully, with a lovely tone, virtuoso polish when such is called for, as in the express ride of "March of the Trolls," and poetic depth of feeling, as in "The Brook," where in his interpretation you can almost smell the grass and see the light ripples of the water. Gilels's selection on DG, with minimum overlap, is still unmatched, but Andsnes's well-recorded recital is a source of endless pleasures. Of added interest, the recording was made at Grieg's home, now a museum, on his 1892 Steinway. --Dan Davis
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| Customer Reviews:
 Andsnes the piano man January 8, 2007
Brian D. Kline
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just finished listening to the disc and very pleased - lots of light and airy works some towards the end are very *soft* with surprising CRESENDOS at the end to wake u up! Another super disc to add to the andsnes collection !
 Suspicious Reviewer October 18, 2005
Johnson Lee (Irvine, CA USA)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am sure Emil Gilels' recording cannot be surpassed but why not get both? After all, there isn't much of overlap.
By the way, I can't help questioning the intention of one of the reviewers named Dag Johansen. He is proactively reviewing most of Andsnes' CDs and giving them very poor rating. In fact, all he is reviewing are Andsnes', no other.
I don't mind that if it is truly his honest opinion but there's something fishy here... why does he keep buying Andsnes' CDs if he hates his playing so much? It's as if he is trying to damage the artist's reputation... Shady....
I have not actully heard this CD or any of Andsnes'. Just felt I needed to report on this.
 A great pianist? February 26, 2005
Dag Johansen
6 out of 42 found this review helpful
To be called a great pianist doesn't necessarily mean you are a great pianist. What on earth is great with this pianist? I actually don't know. Neither do a lot of people with whom I've talked. Several Norwegian pianists play these lyric pieces of Grieg better than Andsnes. His playing is actually boring. He is not telling me anything. Well, he sure has tremendous technique, brilliant understanding of form, he dress correct, smile at you from behind the piano and so forth, but at the same time he totally lack the creative force that is so important in piano-playing. Yes, his playing is utterly smooth, correct and nice, but unfortunately lack the mysterious extra, this personal touch we always look for in classical music. Never the less he is called great! What kind of great is this! Some say he is a new Horowitz. Well, it must be a Horowitz without a heart and musical imagination - a perfect piano machine. Or perhaps I've missed the point. I really don't know. One thing I know for sure; Andsnes is not a great pianist. I'm sorry.
A voyage to the coast of Norway! May 9, 2003
Josef Majaess (Halifax, NS CANADA)
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
I never truly understood Grieg until Leif ove Andsnes revealed him. The notturno was especially touching!
Piano-music lovers: get them both! March 8, 2003
Todd Ebert (Long Beach California)
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
When I first began seriously listening to classical/instrumental music I wanted to build a collection of cds that would cover all the great works. At first I thought this might not seem too difficult, until I began realizing that many works have many "must-have" interpretations. For example, In Ashenkazy's "Favorite Piano Works of Chopin" I thought I had the definitive Chopin recording...until I heard significantly different and fascinating interpretations of much of the same works by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, followed by Martha Argerich. And the same holds true for the lyric pieces of Grieg, first encountered by Emil Gilels on his famous DG recording of the 70's, and now by Leif Ove Andsnes. Both of these recordings take me to significantly different musical places, and hence I'm glad to have listened to each at least 50 times now. It doesn't have to be "either or" when it comes to deciding which to buy. Listen to both and I guarantee each will find separate places in your heart. In Gilels you may find more elegance and sensitivity to each note, while in Andsnes you'll tend to find more force, uplift, and variation of intensity. In either case I'm sure Grieg would have realized that both have lived the dreams that are promised within his work to all great, dedicated performers.
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