Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Performer: Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avie
Release: 2019
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Den hvide, røde Rose (The White and the Red Rose) EG 137
02. Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 6 – Norwegian
03. Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 5 – Folk Tune
04. Mens jeg venter (On the Water), Op. 60 No. 3
05. Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 1 – Sylph
06. Med en vandlije, Op. 25 No. 4
07. Butterfly (from Lyric Pieces Op. 43)
08. Lyric Pieces Op. 47: No. 3 – Melody
09. The Princess, EG133
10. Dulgt Kjaerlighed, Op. 39 No. 2
11. Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 6 – Homeward
Haugtussa, Op. 67
12. I. Det Syng
13. II. Veslemøy
14. III. Blåbaer-Li
15. IV. Møte
16. V. Elsk
17. VI. Killingdans
18. VII. Vond Dag
19. VIII. Ved Gjætle-Bekken
20. Lyric Pieces Op. 62: No. 5 – Phantom
21. Hjertets Melodier af H. C.Andersen, Op. 5 No. 3 ‘Jeg elsker Dig’
22. Når jeg vil dø from Elegiske Digte, Op. 59 No. 1
23. Den Aergjerridge, Op. 26, No. 3
24. Lyric Pieces Op. 57: No. 1 – Vanished Days
25. Ved en ung Hustrus Båre, Op. 39 No. 5
26. Lyric Pieces Op. 54: No. 6 – Bell-Ringing
27. Stambogsrim (Verses in an Album), Op. 25 No. 3
28. Arietta (from Lyric Pieces Op. 12)
Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn trace an arc through Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Music, interspersing vocal miniatures with solo piano pieces that range in mood from bright, youthful innocence to shades of autumnal twilight. Following their acclaimed collaboration in Percy Grainger’s Folk Music (AV2372), soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn turn to the Lyric Music of Edvard Grieg, an apt sequel as the elder composer befriended Grainger who idolised the Norwegian’s folkloric idiom immediately on their first encounter in London in 1906.
Interspersing intimate vocal miniatures with lyrical solo piano pieces, Claire and Christopher mirror many of the programmes that Grieg and his wife Nina performed on their many recital tours together. Each of the works on Lyric Music tells a story, as does the album as a whole, ranging in mood from bright, youthful innocence to shades of autumnal twilight. Sung in the original Norwegian, Claire’s and Christopher’s performances are as evocative as Norway’s varied landscape.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM “it’s that sparkle that they give, it’s the care, it’s the attention to detail, it’s the love of the music and the incredible characters that they manage to draw out of every song that makes this disc really quite a stand out” – BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, Best of 2017 (on Percy Grainger Folk Music, AV2372) “disarming and engaging”