Tveitt, Geirr

Chamber music of Geirr Tveitt: From a Travel Diary; Septet; Midsummer's Eve

1 CD / Simax / 2011-08-30

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Frå ei reisedagbok (From a Travel Diary), suite for strings; Husguden (The Household God), ballet in 12 scenes, Op. 184; Septet for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, oboe & hor...
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Ensemble: Fragaria Vesca

Geirr Tveitt is indisputably a leading light among Norwegian composers. This release features chamber works that have never before been available on record, works that...continue...
Recording information: Hoff kirke, Ostre Toten, Norway (11/13/2009-11/15/2009); Sofienberg kirke, Oslo (11/13/2009-11/15/2009); Hoff kirke, Ostre Toten, Norway (11/21/2009-11/22/2009); Sofienberg kirk...continue...

Very Best of Leif Ove Andsnes

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-07-26

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Études-Tableaux, Op. 33; Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op. 17; Franz Liszt: Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke, S 514 "Mephisto Waltz ...
Performers: Andsnes, Leif Ove; Hardenberger, Hakan [Trumpet]
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio; Andsnes, Leif Ove; Jansons, Mariss; Paavo, Järvi
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Wind Band Classics - Tveitt: Sinfonietta di soffiatori, etc / Engeset, Royal Norwegian Navy Band

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-12-16

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Sinfonia di Soffiatori no 3, for wind band; Prinds Christian Frederiks Honnormarch (Prince Christian Fredrick's March of Honour), for wind band; The Old Mill on the Brook (Det gamle kve...
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Royal Norwegian Navy Band

This album celebrates the centenary of the birth of Geirr Tveitt, an important figure in Norwegian music, many of whose scores perished when his house...continue...

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

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-05-29

Works: Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances (25) for piano, Op. 17; Klaus Egge: Concerto for piano & orchestra no 2, Op 21; Phantasy in Halling, for piano. Op. 12a; Sonata for piano no 1 ("Draumkv&...
Performers: Gimse, Havard
Conductors: Gimse, Oyvind
Ensemble: Trondheim Soloists (Trondheimsolistene)

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...continue...

Tveitt: Piano Concertos no 1 & 4, The Turtle / Ruud, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2004-07-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in F major, Op. 1; Concerto for Piano no 4, Op. 130 "Aurora Borealis"
Performers: Austbo, Haakon; Bjelland, Sveinung
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Norwegian Classical Favorites Vol 2 / Engeset, Iceland SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-05-01

Works: Harald Saeverud: Peer Gynt, Op. 28; Ballad of revolt, for piano, Op. 22/5; Geirr Tveitt: Hundred Hardingtonar (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes), for orchestra, Op 151; Eivind Groven: At Evening, Op. 60; Hj...
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte

This selection of orchestral works marks the transition between the more traditional music and the music of the 'progressive' composers active in the 1920s. Amongst...continue...

Tveitt: Piano Concerto no 5, etc / Mortensen, Ruud, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2004-04-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Concerto for Piano no 5, Op. 156; Variations on a Folk Tune from Hardanger
Performers: Bjelland, Sveinung; Mortensen, Nils
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

"Geirr Tveitt was a combination of Grieg and early Bartok. His manipulation of Norwegian folk music is thoroughly tonal and tuneful; a virtuoso pianist, he...continue...

Geirr Tveitt: Baldurs draumar, Telemarkin / Ruud, et al

2 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2004-01-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Baldur's Dreams; Telemarkin
Performers: Bergset, Arve Moen; Elkemo, Jon; Fremmerlid, Magne; Kringelborn, Solveig; Oien, Trine; Oien, Ulf
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

"[Tveitt] lost around four-fifths of his music manuscripts in a house fire late in his life. In 1999, researchers began a massive conservation project, in...continue...

Tveitt: Wedding Suite, Troll Tunes / Ruud, Stavanger SO

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2003-09-30

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Folktunes (100) from Hardanger, Op. 151
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

While Grieg and other composers were content to use second-hand sources and even other composers' arrangements of folk melodies, Tveitt collected the melodies himself, notating...continue...

Nordic Wind Band Classics / Royal Northern College of Music

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-02-25

Works: Geirr Tveitt: The Old Mill on the Brook (Det gamle kvernhuset), Op. 204; Sinfonietta di soffiatori (for winds), Op. 203; Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Soldier's Mass (Sotilasmessu), for wind ensemble, Op....
Conductors: Rundell, Clark

Norwegian Rhapsody - Grieg, Halvorsen, etc / Aadland, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-12-05

Works: Johan Halvorsen: Entry March of the Boyars (Bojarernes Indtogsmarsch), for orchestra; Fanitullen, for narrator & ensemble; Johan Svendsen: Norwegian Artists' Carnival, for orchestra, Op. 14; Edvard G...
Performers: Oland, Nils
Conductors: Aadland, Eivind
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Tveitt: Piano Concerto no 4, etc / Engeset, Gimse, Süssmann

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-10-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger, for 2 pianos & orchestra; Concerto for Piano no 4 ("Aurora Borealis"), Op. 130
Performers: Gimse, Håvard; Süssmann, Gunilla
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

"Eighty percent of Tveitt's output perished in the fire that destroyed his home, but what survives already seems precious enough achievement. The 'Hardanger Folksong Variations'...continue...

Classical Heat

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-05-01

Works: Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32/H 125; Aram Khachaturian: Gayaneh; Alberto Ginastera: Dances from Estancia, dance suite from the ballet, Op. 8a; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Tristan und Isolde...
Performers: -Lloyd, David; Alsop, Marin; Bisengaliev, Marat; Bloch, Thomas; Bramall, Anthony; BRT Philharmonic Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Dalayman, Katarina; Engeset, Bjarte; Geringas, Da...
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David; Bramall, Anthony; Bátiz, Enrique; Mund, Uwe; Wildner, Johannes; Morandi, Pier G.; Jean, Kenneth; Mogrelia, Andrew; Wit, Antoni; Rahbari, Alexander; Alsop, Marin; Gunzenhauser...
Ensemble: ; Vlach Quartet Prague

Classical Heat collects two discs' worth of fire-related and/or energetic classical music. The first disc, cryptically titled "By the Electric Fire," includes Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Mars, the Bri...continue...

Tveitt: Hardanger Fiddle Concertos 1 and 2, etc / Bergset

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-04-13

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Concerto for Hardanger fiddle & orchestra no 1, Op. 163; Concerto for hardanger fiddle & orchestra No 2 ("Three Fjords"); Nykken, symphonic paint for orchestra ("Water Sprite"), Op. 187
Performers: Bergset, Arve Moen
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

"The Hardanger fiddle of western Norway probably originated in the mid-17th century, possibly - as Reidar Storaas suggests in his notes - as a hybrid...continue...

Tveitt: A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Suites 2 & 5 / Engeset

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-03-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Suite no 2 for orchestra ("Fifteen Mountain Songs" Nos. 16-30), Op. 151/2; A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Suite no 5 for orchestra ("Troll Tunes" Nos. 61-75), Op. 1...
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

One of the most individual and prolific of Norwegian composers, Geirr Tveitt studied in Leipzig, Vienna and Paris with teachers including Honegger, Villa-Lobos and Wellesz,...continue...

Leif Ove Andsnes - A Portrait

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2002-01-08

Works: Edvard Grieg: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16; Lyric Pieces (6), Book 8, Op. 65; Lyric Pieces (6), Book 3, Op. 43; Robert Schumann: Fantasia in C major, Op. 17; Franz Liszt: Der Tanz in der Dor...
Performers: Andsnes, Leif Ove
Conductors: Andsnes, Leif Ove; Järvi, Paavo
Ensemble: ; Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

"This two-CD set dips into the Andsnes discography over the last decade to offer a representative portrait of this marvellous pianist. We have the Grieg...continue...

Tveitt: A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Suites / Engeset, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-09-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Hundred Hardingtonar (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes), for orchestra, Op 151
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

"Tveitt's sound-world is highly original, imaginative, and unfailingly inventive. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra plays with evident enthusiasm for Bjarte Engeset, who has collated the...continue...

Tveitt: Piano Concertos no 1 & 5 / Gimse, Engeset, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-04-01

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in F major, Op. 5; Concerto for Piano no 5, Op. 156
Performers: Gimse, Håvard
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

These two concertos for Geirr Tveitt's own instrument, the piano, integrate tender, haunting melodies into a brilliantly colorful and imaginative orchestral and pianistic setting. Tveitt's...continue...

Tveitt: Prillar, Sun God Symphony / Ruud, Stavenger SO

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2001-03-22

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Prillar (i G-lydisk), for orchestra (completed by Jon Ovind Ness), Op. 8; Solgud-symfonien (Sun God Symphony), 3 pieces from "Baldur's Dreams" (reconst. by Kaare Dyvik Husby)
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Tveitt: 100 Folk Tunes from Hardanger Suites 1 & 2 / Ruud

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-12-20

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Folktunes (100) from Hardanger, Op. 151
Conductors: Ruud, Ole Kristian
Ensemble: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

"The Norwegian Geirr Tveitt is often referred to as the Bartok of the North because he traveled the length and breadth of the fiord country...continue...

Geirr Tveitt: Concerto No. 2 for Hardanger Fiddle and Orchestra; Piano Sonata No. 29

1 CD / Aurora / 1992-01-16

Works: Geirr Tveitt: Sonata for piano No 29 "Sonata Etere"; Concerto for hardanger fiddle & orchestra No 2 ("Three Fjords")