Composer of the Week: Grieg

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

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Composer of the Week: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Breakthrough

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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

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Using recordings by Neville Marriner, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Grieg.

Using recordings by Neville Marriner, Donald Macleod looks at Grieg’s early career and his breakthrough works.

Donald Macleod looks at Grieg’s breakthrough works and the encouragement he was given by Liszt and Ibsen. All the recordings featured in today’s programme were conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, as BBC Radio 3 celebrates what would have been his 100th birthday.  

Donald Macleod looks at the people and places that had a significant impact on Edvard Grieg’s life and work, meeting Norwegian fiddlers, folksong collectors and nationalist firebrands along the way.  From Henrik Ibsen, who commissioned Grieg to write his most famous work, to the composer's wife Nina, for whom he wrote all his songs, this week Donald explores the key influences on the composer’s outlook and development.

Today, Donald Macleod explores Grieg’s breakthrough works, which came fairly early on in his career and are generally still the ones he’s best remembered for: the Piano Concerto and Peer Gynt.  

Holberg Suite: I. Praeludium			
Academy of St Martin in the Fields 
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

Symphonic Dances: III and IV					
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

Piano Concerto No 1: II and III
Cécile Ousset, piano
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

Peer Gynt Suite No 1							
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

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Composer of the Week: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

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Donald Macleod looks at the people and places that had an impact on Grieg's life and work.

Donald Macleod looks at the people and places that had a significant impact on Edvard Grieg's life and work.

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