de Greef (1862-1940): Grieg - "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen"

[JinxxCyanide]

My sister played this last year (I'll never play it, violinist/electric guitarist to the core!) it's a great piece....but i resented having to turn the pages of her book while she played in a concert I should have qualified for (it made

Me looked like a trained monkey instead of an equally skilled musician) She played well though and I was proud of her!

[Teleskingsince1985]

great video song is spectaculer love it

[Kavishwa1]

Love this!!!! But feel bit harsh!!! May be coz of the bad recording!!!

[paulostroff99]

Superb! TY d for posting

[SquareBallStudios]

I just turned 14 and am learning this piece. It is one of my favorite songs yet, I can't wait to learn it in it's entirety :D

[miccharlie]

i'd suggest everyone interested or opinionated about romantic piano technique look up the works of charles rosen; The Romantic Generation, for example.

[violetavalery]

excellent piano playing!

[comeon243]

i'm 13 and i'm learing to play it....would i play it if i didn't like it?

[etoyotarockshsucks]

I love this song!!!!!!!!:) but pretty bad recording and sound quality

[d60944]

@etoyotarockshsucks It's a very good sound quality for a 1929 recording, by a pianist taught by Liszt and who worked with Grieg on performing his music

[MoorOfDundee]

@d60944 What a FABULOUS find!

[thebiggestqueenfan]

@etoyotarockshsucks it's not a song. it's a piece.

[etoyotarockshsucks]

I love this song!!!!!!!!:)

[etoyotarockshsucks]

I love this song :)

[itsugarbunny]

i like it better when they play it more fluidly. that may not be the way its supposed to be played, but I really like it that way better.

[WMUFluteCre]

I love this piece! My friend is giving me the music soon and I can't wait to start working on it.

[lilipopkiss]

Im 16, i love this piece. Young people can appreciate the music just as much as the older people.

[cienh2o]

Thanks kindly for posting this interpretation of de Greef. It's been a long time since I've heard him, and never playing Wedding Day. You are right that his playing is straight-forward, and from today's vantage sidesteps much of the overwrought noodling imposed by Romantic inspired pianists. Even a less stylized than Andsnes' recording! I heard some sections I'd like to incorporate in my own rendition.

[pianoluver192]

@cienh2o Don't be hatin' on the Romantic piano players! Nothing's wrong with phrasing. Everyone has a different style. Maybe "noodling" is just one of them. I've seen famous pianists who stare at the ceiling while playing, which looks ridiculous, but maybe that's just how they play.

[straborn]

wonderful tempo chosen. It was played with intelligence.

[ravenjanae]

omigod i absolutely love this piece, it expresses the ideal picture of a happy wedding day. i'm sooo gonna ask my piano teacher to get me the score xD

[emoth100]

I'm 14 and I love this piece. I love classical piano peices, and quite frankly, why shouldn't I, why should young people as a whole!

[Zakopane20004]

love it

[bella4ever321]

gah im learning. this. D:

competitiong in 3 wks. aiya

[galaxion2]

@bella4ever321 good luck, it's tought

[ncstibi]

Nice! I would like to learn but it would take too much time.....anyway...once, i will.

[evifnoskcaj]

Wonderfully played!! I could see why Grieg liked this recording the most!

[78rpmpianist]

I love this piece. Percy Grainger's recording is my favorite so far.

[mmwiz]

Popular and classical are not opposites nor does liking one preclude liking the other, any more than liking pizza means you can't like ice cream. Each category has some pieces that are wonderful and some that are disappointing. and sometimes we can be in the mood for one, and sometimes for the other.

[aristopus]

As long as you're not including rap in what you mean by "popular." I feel that classical and rap are opposites. The latter is the human mind at its most sublime and the latter at the most base.

Take diction. In opera I want to hear every syllable enuciated and articulated perfectly, In rap, I hear entire sentences merged so I cen't understand anything.

[hereinweymouth]

Rap is not music. It's recitation.

[xxmizzlollypopxx]

erm can we leave the 'young people' comment out of it im 17 and love this piece! Play it on my piano often however i also love drum and bass R&B and all the rest of it. The older generation can be just as narrow minded!

[Febabify]

@xxmizzlollypopxx I can listen to almost anything, Drum n' Bass and Classical music are the only genres that gives me goosebumps. : D

Oh and i am 18.

[prilstrudel]

@xxmizzlollypopxx

One year later. Now you are 18 and I hereby declare you officially part of the older generation!

[bellebellaco]

ohh i like this song!

my piano teacher wants it played at her wedding

teehee (:

[chelbie13]

This is one of my favorite pieces, I think it is beautiful:)

[Hydermard]

If someone is bored by this piece, then it is boring. If someone is enchanted by this piece, then it is enchanting. Open your minds a little and allow for difference in opinion. People can like pop and not classical, it's perfectly ok. I do like classical, and this is ok, i suppose. Not one of my personal favourites.

[CrunchBaby]

I cannot believe how many views classical music gets compared to pop music! Why can't people see that classical is the origin of all the tunes they like. Young people nowadays need to realise that this kind of music isn't borin at all and is in fact beautiful and interesting. I love this piece.

[Animeman0912]

Yeah, I'm playing this for competition and like it. But them youngins nowadays can find this borin' if they wawn. I couldn't appreciate it without playing it, and would find it boring. And by the way, this isn't part of the classical era, that ended around 1820, romantic period bro.

[yododog]

haha im not sure why people dislike your comment, i find it is the complete truth

[istgone]

Absolute perfection!!

[evifnoskcaj]

I think de Greef's interpretation is far superior to that of Grieg's...and I think Grieg thought so as well, but why does de Greef add all of these extra accents? Especially at the syncopated rhythm section?

[goldie0800]

Nicely played, well done!

[kspm01]

Grieg was so pleased with the way De Greef interpreted his works that he intended to write a second piano concerto for him (unfortunately he only finished some sketches). As for me I love De Greef's rendition of this piece, which is perfectly balanced to my ears. Thank you for sharing!

[paulostroff99]

Superb! Bravo! TY.

[mursum151]

So basically you are saying that the composer couldn't play his own pieces as intented :p? just kidding btw.

Personally I like the fast version more.

[love88keys]

That actually does happen.

[GuinnevereB]

Grieg's recording of "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" - posted on YouTube - was so fast, it took me aback. de Greef's interpretation is much more like what I'm used to hearing. Personally, I don't appreciate the style of playing that ranges perfunctorily from pianissimo to fortissimo - I don't like having to strain to hear the softs, only to have my hearing damaged by the crashing louds, but that's a personal preference. I like Mr. de Greef's interpretation just fine. Thanks for posting!