Leader, Harold Fairhurst
Conductor, Richard Austin
Solo pianoforte, Lance Dossor from the Pavilion, Bournemouth (Soloist, LANCE DOSSOR> )
There was a time when to see a piano in a music-loving home was to see a volume of Grieg's piano pieces lying upon it. In the field of short, lyrical, tuneful, and fairly easy pieces Grieg had then no rival. His engaging harmonic newness, his rhythmic folk-music preferences, and his pleasing sentimentalities made a strong appeal to the musical amateur.
But there is much more to Grieg than that. He was not merely a composer of charming little piano pieces, nor of a number of strikingly individual and often very beautiful songs. He wrote a good deal of music on a much larger scale, and it is on his whole output that he must be judged.
4.27 Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Richard Strauss