Beschreibung
With his Piano Concerto and Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg had acquired a reputation as composer with a special musical language throughout Europe during his lifetime. His great fame among the wide music-loving population was ensured especially by his character pieces for piano, his Lyric Pieces. Grieg had a sympathetic ear for arrangements of his works but he was very critical. When he himself composed a second part of Mozart's Piano Sonatas, he stated that his arrangement sounded excellent; so good, in fact, that he had reason to hope that Mozart would not turn in his grave Against this background, Martin Christoph Redel's arrangement of Six Lyric Pieces for clarinet and piano seems to be perfect: The clarinet, a very important instrumental colour in Grieg's orchestral works, is able to brilliantly portray the lyrical content of the pieces, using its wide and varied spectrum of sounds. The pieces, arranged for Wolfgang Meyer in 2007, can be played separately, selectively or even as a 15-minute cycle. Instrumentation: clarinet and piano
Autorenporträt
Edvard Hagerup Grieg wurde 1843 in Bergen geboren. Sein Vater war Kaufmann und englischer Konsul in Norwegen; die Mutter, Pianistin, war es, die in dem Sechsjährigen die Liebe zum Klavierspiel weckte. Daß die Musik zur Lebensaufgabe wurde, entschied sich 1858 nach einem Besuch des Geigers Ole Bull. Auf Bulls Anraten besucht Grieg das ehrwürdige Leipziger Konservatorium. In dieser Zeit wurde der Grundstein einer lebenslangen Begeisterung für Schumann und Wagner gelegt. Grieg starb 1907 in Troldhaugen bei Bergen.
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