Margarita Höhenrieder, Jonathon Heyward, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Antti Siirala - Grieg: Nordlicht (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 206 Mb | Total time: 65:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Solo Musica | # SM 398 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 206 Mb | Total time: 65:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Solo Musica | # SM 398 | Recorded: 2022
Grieg was inspired to write his Piano Concerto in A minor op.16 as a student when he heard Clara Schumann play her husband Robert's piano concerto in Leipzig in 1858. He became a great admirer of Schumann. Grieg chose the same key as Schumann, A minor, for his own piano concerto, which was written 10 years later in Denmark. When Grieg met Franz Liszt in Rome in 1870, the latter played his piano concerto - a great honour and joy for Grieg - and the piano concerto and the two Peer Gynt suites are among the most beautiful and popular piano works of Romantic music. Margarita Hohenrieder has known the Icelandic composer Hjalmar Helgi Ragnarsson and his music for several years.