With more music than the two suites by which it is usually represented on disc and less talking than the whole play by which it was represented on BIS, this Naxos release of Grieg's complete incidental music from Ibsen's Peer Gynt finds an unusual and unlikely middle ground for fans of the composer. Performed here by two choirs, 11 vocal soloists, ...
Norman Dello Joio's chamber opera Blue Mountain is a fictionalized account of a meeting between Edvard Grieg and Percy Grainger just at the end of Grieg's life. The libretto, by Andrew Boyle, adapted from his own play, is so brief and compressed that it barely leaves space for the characters to come across as believable, but the score is ...
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