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Music : Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)
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Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano) from: EMI Classics List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.97 You Save: $7.01 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724355729620 Label: EMI Classics Manufacturer: EMI Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: EMI Classics Release Date: March 12, 2002 Studio: EMI Classics Sales Rank: 32184 MPN: 57296 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Andsnes the piano manJust 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 ! Rating:  - Suspicious ReviewerI 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. Rating:  - A great pianist?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 ... Read More: Rating: - A voyage to the coast of Norway!I never truly understood Grieg until Leif ove Andsnes revealed him. The notturno was especially touching! Rating: - Piano-music lovers: get them both!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 ... Read More: |
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