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Composer of the Week: Grieg

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

"In music one finds not only crescendo and fortissimo, but diminuendo as well.
The same occurs in life."
Grieg composed his Funeral March in tribute to his friend Rikard Nordraak , who greatly influenced him.
The programme includes the extraordinary Slatter (Norwegian Peasant
Dances) and a historic recording of the Violin Sonata No 3 with Fritz
Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninov. Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Rikard Nordraak
Unknown:
Sergei Rachmaninov.
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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