Percy Grainger KSO Rolf Gupta - GRIEG Piano Concerto (2L.2009) SACD-DSD-DFF

Album title ：GRIEG Piano Concerto

Performer：Percy Grainger, piano

                    Kristiansand Symfoniorkester

                    Rolf Gupta, conductor

                    Edvard Grieg, piano

                    Øyvind Bjorå, violin

                    Rex Lawson, pianolist

Catalogue # ：2L-060-SABD

EAN13：7041888514121

ISRC-code ：NOMPP0903010-110

Release date ：August 2009

Recording date ：February 2009

Location ：Kristiansand Cathedral, Norway

Original source ：DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)

声道: 双声道(Stereo)

资源格式：SACD-DSD-DFF

专辑介绍

The magic of a "time machine" brings Percy Grainger's original performance back to life in this modern surround-sound recording with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rolf Gupta. Edvard Grieg himself bears witness to the validity and authenticity of Grainger's interpretation through his own enthusiastic endorsement: "I had to become sixty-four years old to hear Norwegian piano music interpreted so understandingly and brilliantly. He breaks new ground for himself, for me, and for Norway. And then this enchanting, profound, serious, and childlike naturalness! What a joy to gain a young friend with such qualities!"

In 2007, conductor Rolf Gupta gave the first Norwegian performance of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with the legendary Australian pianist Percy Grainger (1882-1961) as the posthumous soloist. On this recording, the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra accompanies Grainger's original and controversial interpretation of the concerto. In addition, the violinist Øyvind Bjorå and pianolist Rex Lawson perform Grieg's Violin Sonata in C minor. The recording also includes a handful of Grieg's Lyric Pieces, performed by the composer himself. Astonishingly, these performances have not been available to the public until now.

Two different instruments have facilitated Grainger's and Grieg's encounters with the KSO/Gupta in modern times. Grainger plays on a form of musical time machine, the Duo-Art reproducing piano, which is something like an analogue predecessor of the computer, powered by an electric suction pump, and controlled automatically by perforated rolls of paper. Grieg, on the other hand, has been restored to life by means of a foot-pedalled pianola, played by Rex Lawson. For this recording, both instruments were fitted in front of a Steinway concert grand piano and re-performed the playing of Grainger in 1921 and Grieg in 1906.

专辑曲目

01 Concerto in A minor - I Allegro molto moderato

02 Piano Concerto in A minor - II Adagio

03 Piano Concerto in A minor - III Allegro molto moderato e m

04 Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, op. 65 no. 6

05 Album Leaf, op. 28 no. 1

06 Album Leaf, op. 28 no. 2

07 Erotikon, op. 43 no. 5

08 To Spring, op. 43 no. 6

09 Violin Sonata in C minor - I Allegro molto ed appassionato

10 Violin Sonata in C minor - II Allegretto espressivo alla R

11 Violin Sonata in C minor - III Allegro animato