Egge: Piano Concerto no 2, etc / Håvard Gimse, et al

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Album Summary

Performer

• Håvard Gimse (Piano)

Conductor

• Gimse, Oyvind

Ensemble

• Trondheim Soloists (Trondheimsolistene)

Composers

• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
• Alf Hurum (1882 - 1972)
• Klaus Egge (1906 - 1979)
• Geirr Tveitt (1908 - 1981)
• Sverre Bergh (1915 - 1980)

Notes & Reviews:

This disc demonstrates the richness and variety of 20th century Norwegian music when it responds to the powerful stimulus of folk music. Klaus Egge's breakthrough work, his First Piano Sonata, was inspired by Draumkvædet (The Dream Ballad), a would-be medieval saga sung to traditional melodies. Egge's Second Piano Concerto is similarly based around a traditional folk-tune, the haunting Solfager og Ormekongen (Sun-Fair and the Snake-King), also heard here in an arrangement by Grieg. Egge's Halling Fantasy, Sverre Bergh's Norwegian Dance No. 2 and Alf Hurum's Miniature all draw on the tradition of folk-fiddling, and the disc ends with the première recording of Brudlaups-Klokkor (Wedding-Bells), a newly-discovered piece by Geirr Tveitt.

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Grieg, Edvard : Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances (25) for piano, Op. 17 :: 12

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England (04/07/2006/04/08/2006)
• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1869

Egge, Klaus : Concerto for piano & orchestra no 2, Op 21

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Conductor: Oyvind Gimse
• Ensemble: Trondheim Soloists (Trondheimsolistene)
• Running Time: 20 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1944

Egge, Klaus : Phantasy in Halling, for piano. Op. 12a

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England (04/07/2006/04/08/2006)
• Running Time: 4 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Egge, Klaus : Sonata for piano no 1 ("Draumkvædet"), Op. 4

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England (04/07/2006/04/08/2006)
• Running Time: 21 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bergh, Sverre : Norwegian Dance no 2 for piano ("Gamel-Holin")

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England (04/07/2006/04/08/2006)
• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1944

Hurum, Alf : Watercolors (3) for piano, Op. 5 :: no 2, Miniature

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England (04/07/2006/04/08/2006)
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Tveitt, Geirr : Brudlaups-Klokkor (Wedding-Bells), for piano

• Performer: Håvard Gimse (Piano)
• Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England (04/07/2006/04/08/2006)
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 09/24/1963