HISTORICAL GRIEG RECORDINGS - Lyric Pieces (Part 1)

Walter Gieseking, piano.

I. Peace of the Woods (Book 10, Op. 71)
2. Puck (Book 10, Op. 71)
3. Grandmother's Minuet (Book 9, Op. 68)
4. Bell-Ringing (Book 5, Op. 54)
5. Homesickness (Book 6, Op. 57)

Recorded September 1956..

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• edvard grieg
• grieg lyric pieces
• grieg homesickness
• grieg grandmother's minuet
• grieg bell ringing
• grieg peace of the woods
• grieg puck
• walter gieseking
• romantic piano music
• piano teaching pieces
• piano miniatures

[nnwahler]

MANY THANKS, eq., for clarifying my little goof in the title listing! It's still not corrected on the video, but it IS corrected in my description.

[egalitarianist]

@nnwahler It's already correct on the video. The main reason for my listing was so that your viewers can select or replay the individual pieces by clicking on the start times. Thank you for the upload. You have a nice channel. (Sorry about the awkward wording of my comments. It comes from hurried editing down to fit. If you like I'll redo them.)

[egalitarianist]

From IMO the finest nearly-complete recording of Grieg's Lyric Pieces ever made. We almost missed out on them. Nearly all done in September 1956 - just a month before Gieseking died unexpectedly in his sleep at 60 on concert and recording tour in London.

0:00 Peace in the Woods, Op. 71 # 4

4:49 Puck, Op. 71 # 3 (Impish little troll)

6:27 Grandmother's Minuet, Op. 68 # 2

8:30 Bell Ringing, Op. 54 # 6 (Bergen church bells heard from high on mountain)

11:48 Homesickness, Op. 57 # 6

[egalitarianist]

I have never known anything more serene and uplifting than my quiet hikes down the trails to and through the bottomland of the heavily-wooded deep ravines around my childhood home in the hills of Indiana. There rock-lined crystal-clear brooks meander amidst the flowers growing in the leaf-litter soil

beneath the towering trees. The breeze rustles the canopy of green leaves high above. Nothing I’ve heard better evokes this heavenly cool scene than this performance of “Peace in the Woods”.