Grieg-Lyric Pieces Op.65 No.6 Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

Grieg(1843-1907)
Lyric Pieces Op.65 No.6 Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor : Stephen Gunzenhauser

1988 Recording NAXOS

Paintings by Sami Briss(1930-)
I should thank the artists! and hope nobody will mind.

Samy Briss was one of Israel's most popular artists who combines a cubist style with a Byzantine one. His figures are modem icons - frontal and classic but also humorous and whimsical. Briss' images capture the strength and vulnerability of modem life.

Samy Briss was born in 1930, in Jassy, Rumania where Ionesco was born 18 years earlier. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest under Ressu, a disciple of Gustave Moreau. In 1960 he settled in Israel and in 1967 he had his first one-man-show in Tel Aviv. His murals of mosaics and reliefs on wood decorate several public buildings. His works are in Museums and private collections in Rumania,France, Israel, England,Germany, Sweden, Holland, Luxembourg, Canada and the U.S. A. The artist lives and worksin Paris."Samy Briss is a painter of the magical and the marvelous, whose nostalgia for icons comes straight from his native Moldavian plains. His surrealistic artistic experience makes him brother to Paul Klee and Victor Brauner. But his images are symbolic, their naivete has a genuine popular essence expressed in a subtly metamorphosed conventionalized style. Briss's choice and use of colors are remarkable. As inventive as it is nuanced and captiving, it evokes the tones of the enamels, bisque-fired pottery, and the sober luminosity of the primitives. Briss's painting is one of myth and memory rooted in the web of time - in other words,in universal "childhood". F. J. Temple

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[anamorphosys85]

I love the orchestra version, thanks for uploading! :)

[egalitarianist]

This is a musical description of the excitement and bustle surrounding a relatives wedding and its festivities at Grieg's house, Troldhaugen, near Bergen, Norway. Trold means Kobold (sprite), and Haug means hill - thus, Sprite Hill.

[TheDarktempest]

4chan take me here haha

[terahoubicka]

@pianoxtreme I don't think it sounds like a communist march. I grew up in a communist country and heard many really awful marches... This is wonderful, tender and cheerful.

In August 2008 I chose it for my wedding, it was just great.

[faverstri]

This is the best version of them all! all the other versions are either slightly too fast or too slow. Awesome! been looking for this one :)

[Nostalgic4]

Thank you very much for uploading this. I love it!

[Starbirdy9999]

@brabozu I wouldn't be too suprised if this arrangement was by Grieg himself or by G. Seidl, who arranged some of Grieg's more well known Lyric Pieces for orchestra...They both made arrangements of the more well Lyric Pieces, especially since there are some added melodies and harmonies to this arrangements, that usually wouldn't be created unless if they were by the composer himself, or by someone who arranged them with the composer's help and/or consent...

[pianoxtreme]

This sounds like a communist march...

[brabozu]

Whose is this amazing orchestra arrangement? Thanks and congratulation for this video!

[chaoqiang2010]

Wonderfully played! 

[Krynarn]

My favorite rendition of this classic. Thanks greatly for the upload.

[egalitarianist]

@AngelVS20 All three terms are technically right, but as soon as I posted that comment, I wished I had simply said "troll". I even considered deleting and re-commenting. Troll is the type of sprite in Scandinavian folklore. Kobold is the German version of troll. The definition as "sprite" I gave was almost an exact quote of the first one I read in a Grieg bio over 50 years ago. Grieg's wife Nina named their new home that because it was surrounded by "Trolddalen" (Troll Valley).