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Offline imbetter

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grieg ballade in g minor
on: January 05, 2008, 01:12:29 PM
thanks in advance
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Re: grieg ballade in g minor
Reply #1 on: January 05, 2008, 01:53:37 PM
Do you mean this one oh great master?
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Offline richard black

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Re: grieg ballade in g minor
Reply #2 on: January 05, 2008, 06:22:28 PM
Did anyone hear the Geir Tveitt orchestration of that piece when it was broadcast by the BBC the other day? (or indeed any other recording or performance?) Ionly caught a bit but it sounded rather gorgeous.
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Re: grieg ballade in g minor
Reply #3 on: January 06, 2008, 12:49:21 AM
Did anyone hear the Geir Tveitt orchestration of that piece when it was broadcast by the BBC the other day? (or indeed any other recording or performance?) Ionly caught a bit but it sounded rather gorgeous.

It is recorded by naxos btw, if you didn't know.

Offline jakev2.0

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Re: grieg ballade in g minor
Reply #4 on: January 07, 2008, 05:48:15 PM
There's an excellent performance by Andsnes on Youtube:



Sorry, don't know where the first half it.

Here's him talking about it/playing it:
 (preceded by a little Fjordal performance of the Grieg concerto)
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Also try to find Godowsky AMAZING performance of this work.

Offline dnephi

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Re: grieg ballade in g minor
Reply #5 on: January 09, 2008, 12:46:22 PM
There's an excellent performance by Andsnes on Youtube:



Sorry, don't know where the first half it.

Here's him talking about it/playing it:
 (preceded by a little Fjordal performance of the Grieg concerto)
&feature=related

Also try to find Godowsky AMAZING performance of this work.
Says here it's a private video.  Who do I need to add as a friend?
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