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Grieg: Lyric Pieces - Hideyo Harada

Audite  92.555

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Instrumental

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces

Hideyo Harada (piano)


The "Lyric Pieces" by Edvard Grieg have long formed part of standard repertoire for musical recitals in the home; they were also excellent encores when pianists wished to thank their audience with a poetic gesture. In this recording, Hideyo Harada recalls the important tradition of these "songs without words" to memory. Out of the total of 66 "Lyric Pieces" composed by Grieg in the course of his life, Hideyo Harada has selected 22 and arranged them into a drama of subtle shifts and abrupt contrasts, into a tale of timbres, musical forms, and characters. In the groups of pieces as well as in each piece itself, Hideyo Harada maintains the dramatic tension which is the heart of Romantic musical poetry: And thus each piece is self-consistent and logical, clearly formed and yet with its own characteristics and with a quasi-visual force of presence.

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Works (22)

• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) I, Op. 12 No. 6 'Norsk' (Norwegian)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) II, Op. 38 No. 1 'Vuggevise' (Cradle song)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) II, Op. 38 No. 3 'Melodi' (Melody)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) III, Op. 43 No. 1 'Sommerfugl' (Butterfly)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) III, Op. 43 No. 4 'Liden Fugl' (Little bird)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) III, Op. 43 No. 5 'Erotik'
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) III, Op. 43 No. 6 ''Til Foråret' (To spring)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) IV, Op. 47 No. 1 'Valse-Impromptu'
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) IV, Op. 47 No. 2 'Albumblad' (Album leaf)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) IV, Op. 47 No. 3 'Melodi' (Melody)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) IX, Op. 68 No. 3 'For dine Føtter' (At your feet)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) IX, Op. 68 No. 4 'Aften på Højfjeldet' (Evening in the mountains)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) V, Op. 54 No. 3 'Trolltog' (March of the trolls)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) V, Op. 54 No. 4 'Notturno'
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) V, Op. 54 No. 5 'Scherzo'
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VI, Op. 57 No. 1 'Svundne Dage' (Vanished days)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VI, Op. 57 No. 4 'Hemmelighed' (Secret)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VI, Op. 57 No. 6 'Hjemve' (Homesickness)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VII, Op. 62 No. 1 'Sylfide' (Sylph)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VII, Op. 62 No. 4 'Bækken' (Brooklet)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VII, Op. 62 No. 5 'Drømmesyn' (Phantom)
• Edvard Grieg: Lyriske stykker (Lyric Pieces) VIII, Op. 65 No. 6 'Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen' (Wedding day at Troldhaugen)

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