Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto: Percy Granger, Rolf Gupta, Kristiansand Symfoniorkester (Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc + SACD)
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DVDFab COPY PURE AUDIO BRD | ~16GB (32x500MB)
2.0 LPCM 24/192kHz, 5.1 DTS HDMA 24/192kHz, 7.1 DTS HDMA 24/96kHz
BRD DEMUX | WV, TRACKS | 2.23GB | PCM 24bit-192kHz
EAC-RIP | WV, IMG, CUE, LOG | 107MB
MP3 LAME VBR-245 V0 | 119MB | SCANS COMPLETE | 252MB
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This is a surprisingly effective disc, which I'm rating highly for the simple reason that I've found it very enjoyable on repeated listening. A piano teacher friend also concurs. However, my high ranking is based on what this disc seeks to achieve, and these goals do not include the best possible presentation of a famous romantic warhorse for a full size symphony orchestra and virtuoso pianist... sa-cd.net
01. Piano Concerto a minor op 16 allegro molto moderato 12:27
02. Piano Concerto a minor op 16 adagio 05:38
03. Piano Concerto a minor op 16 allegro molto moderato e marcato 09:53
04. Wedding Day at Troldhaugen op 65 no 6 05:24
05. Album Leaf op 28 no 1 01:33
06. Album Leaf op 28 no 2 02:57
07. Erotikon op 43 no 5 02:53
08. To Spring op 43 no 6 02:50
09. Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3 in c minor op 45 allegro molto 08:38
10. Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3 in c minor op 45 allegretto 06:34
11. Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3 in c minor op 45 allegro animato 07:25
...According to the explanatory program notes, the music rolls on a Duo-Art
reproducing piano and a foot-pedaled pianola were fitted in front of a Steinway
concert grand piano and “reperformed” with the Kristiansand Symphony
Orchestra. Now, you might wonder how or whether they were able to seamlessly
integrate Grainger with a newly recorded version of the orchestral
accompaniment in an ultra high-resolution recording that would surely reveal the
inconsistencies born out of this technical hocus-pocus... Fanfare Magazine
Laugh at me if you must (and I won't blame you, honestly), but I dragged my parents to see Song of Norway, the infamously bad biopic about Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, when I was a very young kid. We were living in a suburb of Seattle then which was pretty much farmland back in those days, and I lived for my school library's weekly delivery of the Sunday New York Times. I would pore over each week's Arts and Leisure section, trying to assimilate all that culture via some sort of osmosis... blu-ray.com
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Bonus tracks:
1. Humoresque, op.6 nr.2 (Edvard Grieg playing) 2:58
2. Leaf, op.28 nr.3 (Arthur De Greef playing) 2:53
3. Berceuse, op.38 nr.1 (Edvard Grieg playing) 2:23
4. Papillon, op.43 nr.1 (Edvard Grieg playing) 1:38
5. Puck, op.71 (Arthur De Greef playing) 2:05
Like the performances on the main CD, the bonus tracks for this album all derive from some form of perforated piano roll. The Humoresque and the Berceuse are the two remaining rolls that Grieg recorded for Ludwig Hupfeld in Leipzig in April 1906. He may have recorded more, of course, and the pile of rolls in the evocative photograph of Grieg listening to an unnamed Phonola player in 1907 in Berlin is tantalisingly unclear, but only six rolls were ever issued in Hupfeld's various catalogues. The Album Leaf and Puck are performances recorded by the Belgian pianist, Liszt pupil and long-term friend of Grieg, Artur de Greef, for the Aeolian Company's Duo-Art reproducing piano, the former in London in about 1920, and the latter in New York some ten years later. Grieg's own Duo-Art recording of Papillon (Butterfly) is more unusual, since the Duo-Art was not introduced until March 1914, nearly seven years after Grieg had died. The recording began life in Aeolian's Autograph-Metrostyle series, a non-recorded roll on which a tempo line had been drawn, under Grieg's own supervision, during a visit to Troldhaugen by George Reed of Aeolian in London. Although Aeolian never explained the process by which this tempo-marked roll was converted to Duo-Art, the likelihood is that it was pedalled, on an Aeolian 88-note Pianola attached to the Duo-Art recording piano in New York, by one of the American Duo-Art recording producers, who were in the main expert Pianola players as well.
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