Sung by ISABEL I'ANSON
Morning Dew (Morgenthan); The Old Song (Das Alte Lied) ; First Meeting (Erstes Begegnen); Cradle Song (Wiegenlied); The First Primrose (Mit einer Primula Veris); I love thee (Ich liebe dich)

The shorter Piano pieces of Grieg are among the most popular music in existence.
His songs, of which there are nearly a hundred-and-fifty, are not so well known ; yet they deserve equal popularity.
Morning Dew, written when Grieg was twenty, is a song of sentiment, in which a lover declares that he wants no light save that from the beloved's eyes.
The Old Song tells a story of an old King who took a young wife. She was loved also by her page. The song only hints at the tragedy that came about - 'both were doomed to perish, they loved one another so.' The First Meeting recalls the joy of love's first rapture.
The Cradle Song is sung by a father to his motherless babe.
In The First Primrose the flower is an offering to a ' lovely child of Spring.'
I love thee is perhaps the best-known of all Grieg's vocal pieces. The music is not by any means most characteristic of him, but the emotional life of the brief song is intense.