Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Performer: Stephen Hough
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68070
Release: 2015
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Lyric Pieces I, Op. 12
01. No 1 Arietta
Lyric Pieces II, Op. 38
02. No 1 ‘Berceuse’. Vuggevise
03. No 6 ‘Elegy’. Elegi
Lyric Pieces III, Op. 43
04. No 1 ‘Butterfly’. Sommerfugl
05. No 2 ‘Solitary traveller’. Ensom vandrer
07. 06. No 3 ‘In my native country’. I hjemmet
08. No 4 ‘Little bird’. Småfugl
09. No 5 ‘Erotikon’. Erotikk
10. No 6 ‘To spring’. Til våren
Lyric Pieces IV, Op. 47
11. No 1 Valse-impromptu
12. No 3 ‘Melody’. Melodi
13. No 7 ‘Elegy’. Elegi
Lyric Pieces V, Op. 54
14. No 3 ‘March of the trolls’. Trolltog
15. No 4 Notturno
16. No 6 ‘Bell ringing’. Klokkeklang
Lyric Pieces VI, Op. 57
17. No 6 ‘Homesickness’. Hjemve
Lyric Pieces VII, Op. 62
18. No 1 ‘Sylph’. Sylfide
19. No 6 ‘Homeward’. Hjemad
Lyric Pieces VIII, Op. 65
20. No 1 ‘From early years’. Fra ungdomsdagene
21. No 4 ‘Salon’. Salong
22. No 6 ‘Wedding day at Troldhaugen’. Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen
Lyric Pieces IX, Op. 68
23. No 2 ‘Grandmother’s minuet’. Bestemors menuett
24. No 3 ‘At your feet’. For dine fötter
25. No 5 ‘At the cradle’. Bådnlåt
Lyric Pieces X, Op. 71
26. No 2 ‘Summer’s eve’. Sommeraften
27. No 3 ‘Puck’. Småtroll
28. No 7 ‘Remembrances’. Efterklang
Since the dawn of the gramophone era Grieg’s Lyric Pieces have attracted the greatest pianists to the microphone. Their individual brevity played a part in this, of course, but rather more so did their intellectual transparency. For this new recording Stephen Hough has chosen twenty-seven (of the sixty-six), a generous selection encompassing every nuace of emotion, every tone of pianistic mastery.