Composer: Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen
Performer: Øyvind Aase
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0584
Release: 2021
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Little Butterfly
Suite on Norwegian Folk Songs No. 1, Op. 31
02. No. 1 “Frå Telemark”
03. Air
Suite on Norwegian Folk Songs No. 2, Op. 31
04. No. 2 “Frå Telemark”
3 Small Piano Pieces
05. No. 1, Menuett
06. No. 2, Evening Song
07. No. 3, Gavotte
Leitom Suite, Op. 33
08. I. By the Old Church
09. II. When Christmas Comes
10. III. Glacier Crowfoot
11. IV. The Sorpero Dance
12. V. Snow-Clad Forest
13. VI. The Leitom
14. 6 Old Village Songs from Lom, Op. 2 (Version for Piano)
15. Andante funebre (Version for Piano)
Norwegian Folksongs from Gudbrandsdalen (Version for Piano)
16. No. 1, Big Baby Larry
17. No. 2, The Prize Pig
18. No. 3, Kari’s Ugly Cap
19. No. 4, Pussy and the Tom-Tit
20. No. 5, The Two Sisters
21. No. 6, The Fairy and the Mother
22. No. 7, My Sweetheart Was That Kind
23. No. 8, Pussy and I
24. No. 9, O, It’s Alright
25. No. 10, Mary Lazy-Bones
26. No. 11, When Baby Grows Up
27. No. 12, Sparrow to Its Wee One
28. No. 13, Up the Slope
29. No. 14, Going North or Going South
30. No. 15, Polly, Molly, Get Up Now
31. No. 16, Between the Oven and the Table
32. No. 17, Pretty Polly, Sweet and Jolly
33. No. 18, Young Ola Finndale
34. No. 19, The Dance Round the Anvil
35. Variations on a Norwegian Folktune, Op. 5
36. Hymn “Honour Eternal Spring”
Norwegian folksong and -dance constitute the very DNA of the music of Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903–84), on both a large and a small scale – from Draumkvedet, the 1936 oratorio that was his first major success, to the tiny miniatures that form most of his piano music, recorded here in its entirety for the first time. The apparent simplicity of much of this material belies the unassuming sophistication of its construction: many of these pieces, some barely a minute long, seem – to adapt William Blake – to contain the world in a grain of sand.