Haugtussa, Op. 67
Det syng: Veslemoy; Blabaer-Ll; M6te; Elsk; Killingdana; Vond Dag ; Ved GjaeUe-Bekiken sung by Emelie Hooke (soprano) with Ernest Lush (accompanist)
This song-cycle, which Grieg believed to be his finest achievement as a song-writer, consists of settings of poems in the Norwegian country dialect, or Landsmaal, by Arne Garborg. They concern a peasant girl whom a troU tries to lure to his mountain home; but she avoids him by taking refuge with her grandmother. Then one day, when She has taken her cows out to graze, she meet! a handsome boy and falls in love with him. Her feelings are described, and there is a charming interlude in the form of a ' Kidlings' Dance; but the young man proves unfaithful, and Haugtussa, broken in spirit, turns to the mountain-brook for solace. H.R.