★★★★★
This is fascinating and fun. Grieg wrote about 250 bars of a Piano Quintet before abandoning it in 1892. Starting in 2007, British composer Michael Finnissy spent five years working on a viable completion, a veritable labour of love. From Grieg's exposition, Finnissy saw that a substantial work was implied, creating a single movement Kammersymphonie in four sections lasting 27 minutes. The result is entirely convincing, with no sense of a point where Grieg ends and Finnissy begins...
- www.classical-music.com
2014-07-09
★★★★★
Summary for the Busy Executive: Magic. If you asked a nineteenth-century aficionado his favorite composer, the answer "Edvard Grieg" shouldn't have surprised you. Grieg's music sold in buckets. His German publishers used to hang out a special flag at their shops and would sell out Grieg's latest in a matter of days. Some of this stems from Grieg confining much of his output to piano pieces and songs - works that appealed to the then-large market for amateur and home musicians...
- www.classical.net
2011-10-24