All Grieg articles – Page 2
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ReviewWolf: Italian Serenade. Grieg: String Quartet no.1 in G minor op.27. Janácek: String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
The Strad Issue: April 2015Description: Mixed results in three varied masterpieces of the quartet repertoireMusicians: Amphion QuartetComposer: Wolf, Grieg, JanácekConvincingly linking the very disparate sections within Grieg’s four-movement structure, the New York-based Amphion Quartet gives a highly impressive account of the composer’s youthfully passionate First Quartet. Having ...
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ReviewFranck: Violin Sonata in A major. Grieg: Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor op.45. Dvorák: Romantic Pieces op.75
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Masterly accounts of three Romantic masterpiecesMusicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin) Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)Composer: Franck, Grieg, DvorákThis is a strong performance of Franck’s Violin Sonata. The first-movement Allegretto, for all its undoubted poetic sensitivity, is forthright and forward-moving, with firm direction and shape. Khatia ...
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ReviewColours of the Heart. Debussy: Violin Sonata. Delius: Violin Sonata no.3. Ravel: Violin Sonata. Grieg: Songs (arr. Sauret)
The Strad Issue: January 2015Description: Sensitive accounts of music full of sensual allureMusicians: Midori Komachi (violin) Simon Callaghan (piano)Composer: Debussy, Delius, Ravel, GriegDebussy’s Violin Sonata tantalisingly fuses stream-of-consciousness sensuality with structural and gestural Classical norms. Midori Komachi leans more towards the former, characterising the composer’s episodic asides ...
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ReviewFranck: Sonata in A major. Grieg: Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor op.45. Dvorák: Four Romantic Pieces op.75
The Strad Issue: November 2014Description: A classy partnership at work in three Romantic masterpiecesMusicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin) Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)Composer: Franck, Grieg, DvorákCatalogue Number: Erato 0825646250189This high-profile partnership naturally prompts expectations to match and, in the main, the French violinist and Georgian pianist fulfil their promise. Renaud ...
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ArticleConus: Violin Concerto in E minor. Markov: Taiwanese Improvisation and Formosa Capriccio from Formosa Suite. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor op16
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Anita Chen (violin/piano) Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)Composer: Conus, Markov, GriegJules Conus’s E minor Concerto is rarely performed despite its easy flow of memorable ideas, brilliant solo writing and Tchaikovskian orchestration. Like Glazunov in his delectable A minor Concerto, Conus takes ...
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