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Composer of the Week: Edvard Grieg

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

(1843-1907)
"Lyric Pieces swarm around me like bugs in the countryside ..."
Peter Paul Nash introduces Grieg's vast collection of intimate piano pieces exploring the popular music and culture of his native Norway. Plus his youthful and popular Piano Concerto in a recording by the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Kitaienko.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine Discs

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Presenter:
Peter Paul Nash
Source: Radio Times

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