Ragnhild Hemsing, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Aadland – Bruch & Tveitt (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ragnhild Hemsing, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Aadland – Bruch & Tveitt (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:51 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics

Experience the rich and vibrant sounds of Europe’s Romantic tradition with our latest CD featuring music by four talented composers. Discover the little-known talent of Sigurd Lie, a highly skilled violinist and composer from Norway who studied with leading teachers in Leipzig and Berlin. Immerse yourself in the enchanting folk tale inspiration of Lie’s “Huldra aa’n Elland” for violin and orchestra and be captivated by the playful and seductive solo violin performed by the renowned violinist Ragnhild Hemsing. Follow in the footsteps of Lie’s compatriot, Johan Svendsen, a famous violinist and composer who studied in Leipzig and Paris and is best remembered for his Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26. Svendsen’s work was admired by Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe and was reprinted 65 times. This CD is a must-have for any lover of the Romantic era, the diverse sounds of Norway and Europe, and the virtuosic performances of Hemsing.

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Det Norske Blåseensemble, Christian Ihle Hadland & Eivind Aadland – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3, Haydn: Symphony No. 44 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Det Norske Blåseensemble, Christian Ihle Hadland & Eivind Aadland – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3, Haydn: Symphony No. 44 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:52 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Simax Classics

After several challenging years, marked by the pandemic and a harsh political climate, we fortunately have musical treasures we can unearth. This is precisely what the Norwegian Wind Ensemble has done. This spring, they present two masterful pieces of music that deserve the full attention of an interested listener.

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland – E. Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. V (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland – E. Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. V (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:24 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion

Soprano Camilla Tilling plays a leading part in the fifth and final volume of audite’s complete recording of Edvard Grieg’s orchestral works: although Grieg drew on his own songs with orchestra or piano for the Six Orchestral Songs, this set forms an independent, elegiacally-hued cycle reflecting the core of Grieg’s personality. It includes not only two songs from the incidental music to Peer Gynt (Solveig’s Song and Solveig’s Lullaby) but also transcriptions of solemn piano songs such as the Roman ballad From Monte Pincio, or the memory of the short-lived Norwegian patriot Henrik Wergeland, to whom the final song (sung by Tom Erik Lie) is dedicated. This recording gathers several important examples of the less familiar Edvard Grieg as composer of songs with orchestra.

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland – E. Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. IV (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland – E. Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. IV (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:38 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion

The fourth volume of audite’s complete recording of Edvard Grieg’s orchestral works with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln and the conductor Eivind Aadland combines the most popular work by the Norwegian national composer with his least known: the Piano Concerto in A minor, performed here by Herbert Schuch, represented the 25-year-old Grieg’s breakthrough to international fame and is one of a handful of great piano concertos on which every pianist is judged. In the concerto, the influence of Schumann, his great model (Grieg had, after all, studied in Leipzig), is combined with that of Norwegian folk music – for the first time in a work by Grieg these national elements can be detected, which enthused not only his compatriots but also his wider European audience.

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland – Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland – Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 05:27:10 minutes | 2,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion

This complete edition of the symphonic works of Edvard Grieg is especially convincing thanks to the authentic approach of the Norwegian Eivind Aadland, who strongly influences the interpretations of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under his direction. The first LP of this series presents two of Grieg’s principal collections on 180g vinyl: his first Peer Gynt suite from the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s drama Peer Gynt, the story of the “Nordic Faust” which inspired Grieg to compose a sonic panorama of the Norwegian character – from the melancholy song Death of Åses to the furious chase in the Hall of the Mountain King – as well as his four Symphonic Dances Op. 64 of 1898, where the composer draws on his experiences as a conductor of the leading European orchestras. The second LP of this Grieg series includes the second Peer Gynt suite, the Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak as well as the famous suite From Holberg’s Time – a homage to Ludvig Holberg, the caustic “Molière of the North” – and Klokkeklang – an almost impressionist study documenting a surprisingly visionary trait of the otherwise rather conservative composer.

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