Grieg: Cello Sonata, String Quartet
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If you're familiar with Grieg's piano concerto, you'll hear its melodic fingerprints (influenced by Norwegian folk dance tunes) throughout the present chamber works, notably in the Cello Sonata's first movement and the G Minor String Quartet's Intermezzo. The Sonata stands out for Truls Mørk's seamless bow arm, cutting edge fortes that never take a vulgar leap, and soft playing that whispers with fullness of body. His pianist, Håvard Gimse, proves an incisive equal partner, rather than deferential accompanist. For all its fullness of texture and quasi-orchestral scope, the quartet's abundant lyrical ideas linger longest in your inner ear. Mørk and colleagues offer a hard-nosed, terse performance characterized by gaunt, slashing double-stops and a less genial mindset than the Auryn Quartet's wistful slides and looser-limbed phrasing (on the CPO label). The quartet is well engineered in a resonant space, but the Sonata's drier sonics, by contrast, sound comparatively constricted. --Jed Distler
Grieg: Cello Sonata, String Quartet, Music, Edvard Grieg, Truls Mork, Cello with Keyboard, Chamber, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Quartet for Four String Instruments
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25 Wedding Favorites
Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004Y6T1 Release Date: 2000-09-05 |
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Best Music Ever for Home Wedding.......2007-07-20
Excellent resource for wedding planners.......2007-04-05
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Preview your wedding day.......2006-08-14
25 WEDDING FAVORITES.......2006-07-20
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Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000089YAX Release Date: 2003-03-04 |
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Adagio follows in the rosin-dusted footsteps of The Impressionists, A Different Mozart, and A Different Prelude. As with those releases, it was produced by Dawn Atkinson and features many of the same artists. The results are as varied as the musicians. Violinist Tracy Silverman cuts one of his patented echo-delayed pizzicato violin arrangements of a Bach arioso, while Patrick O'Hearn drapes a somber keyboard shroud around the Adagio from Rodrigo's Fantasy for a Gentleman. Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning find the Celtic air in the Adagio from Handel's Sonata in G, while Philip Aaberg discovers infinity between the notes of Barber's ubiquitous Adagio for Strings. He stretches the melody across his piano in finely drawn lines, subtlety filled out with synthesizer undertones. Subtlety is a casualty on Philipe Saisse's bongos, bells, and synth arrangement of Bach's Air on a G String. It's also sacrificed in a corny confection of Handel's Sarabande by Paul Schwartz. His ham-fisted electronic keyboards would've sounded dated even before Switched-On Bach. But Adagio features plenty of musicians who are willing to surrender themselves to their elegiac themes, including guitarist Steve Erquiaga, Mike Marshall, and Edgar Meyers. --John DilibertoCustomer Reviews:
Simply Gorgeous !.......2003-10-05
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Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium [20 CD Set]
Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000K1C9 Release Date: 1999-08-24 |
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An extraordinary 20-CD collection of great works by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, J. Strauss, R. Strauss, Schumann, Wagner, Dvorak, Grieg and Liszt. It also features worldrenowned artists such as Sir Neville Marriner, Martha Argerich, Ivo Pogorelich, Hermann Prey, Reiner Goldberg, Sylvia Sass, Jochen Kowalski, Peter Schreler and many more. This exquisite, copper metallic, deluxe boxed set is the perfect gift for the classical music neophyte.Customer Reviews:
Mill. Classical review.......2007-05-13
classical music for the unitiated.......2007-04-01
Some little gems there that I had forgotten!.......2007-03-30
A very helpful collection.......2007-03-24
Excellent!.......2007-03-08
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The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the World...Ever!
Manufacturer: EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009S4WK2 Release Date: 2005-06-13 |
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Best of the Best collection of Relaxing-meditative classical music.......2007-07-23
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The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music, Vol. 1-10 (Box Set)
Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000G1JO Release Date: 2000-07-07 |
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Meditation: Classical Relaxation (Box Set)
Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001W1A Release Date: 1991-03-12 |
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Funeral Music
Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ![]() |