Egge, Klaus - Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 1 / Halling Suite - Gimse, Håvard (piano)
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• This disc demonstrates the richness and variety of 20th century Norwegian music when it responds to the powerful stimulus of folk music.
• Klaus Egge’s breakthrough work, his First Piano Sonata, was inspired by Draumkvædet (The Dream Ballad), a would-be medieval saga sung to traditional melodies. Egge’s Second Piano Concerto is similarly based around a traditional folktune, the haunting Solfager og Ormekongen (Sun-Fair and the Snake-King), also heard here in an arrangement by Grieg.
• Egge’s Halling Fantasy, Sverre Bergh’s Norwegian Dance No. 2 and Alf Hurum’s Miniature all draw on the tradition of folk-fiddling, and the disc ends with the première recording of Brudlaups-Klokkor (Wedding-Bells), a newly-discovered piece by Geirr Tveitt.
• “Each composer gives a distinctive flavour to a specific style of writing. Klaus Egge's quartet from 1993 is rather nationalistic. It is inspired by the folk music of Greenland, and has material derived fragments of a lament sung by a starving Eskimo” American Record Guide on 8.554384.
Håvard Gimse, piano
Trondheim Soloists/Øyvind Gimse
Edvard Grieg
1. 25 Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op. 17: No. 12. Solfager og Ormekongen
Klaus Egge
2. Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21, "Symphonic Variations and Fugue on a Norwegian Folktune"
3. Three Pieces, Op. 12: No. 1. Phantasy in Halling
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 4, "Draumkvede" (Dream Vision)
4. I. Grave - Allegro moderato
5. II. Adagio ma non troppo
6. III. Scherzo infernale
7. IV. Allegro in halling
Sverre Bergh
8. Norwegian Dance No. 2, "Gamel Holin" (Old Holin)
Alf Hurum
9. Aquarelles, Op. 5: No. 2. Miniature
Geirr Tveitt
10. Brudlaups-Klokkor (Wedding-Bells)