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His was the first complete recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, but he had earlier recorded a cut version. He also recorded with Isolde Menges. [5] Other recorded works included: Liszt: Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Chopin. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op 35; Waltz No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 18; Waltz No. 5 in A-flat, Op. 42
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 (1917) is a sonata composed for solo piano, using sketches dating from 1907. Prokofiev gave the première of this in Saint Petersburg on 15 April 1918, during a week-long festival of his music sponsored by the Conservatory. [1]
The following is a sortable list of compositions by Edvard Grieg (1843–1907). [1] The works are categorized by genre, catalogue number, date of composition and titles. Catalogue numbers (Cat. No.) of compositions by Edvard Grieg include, according to the catalogue compiled by Dan Fog and the Edvard Grieg Committee: [ 2 ]
'Morning mood in the desert') [citation needed] is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, and was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46.
Grieg is lured to Italy by the great prima donna Louisa Giovanni, but he finds he cannot create amid all the glitter and excitement and so returns to Norway and his beloved Nina to write his music. The melody of the Norwegian National Anthem , Ja, vi elsker dette landet was actually written by Rikard Nordraak to lyrics written by the Norwegian ...
Grieg – Piano Concerto; Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2; Saint-Saëns – Suite for Cello and Piano; Schoenberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra; Schumann – Kreisleriana; Scriabin - 5 Preludes. see List of compositions by Alexander Scriabin; Shostakovich – Tahiti Trot; Sibelius – Spring Song (Vårsång), tone poem for orchestra (1894 ...
In 1909, at only eleven years of age, she was awarded a First Prize at the Paris Conservatory piano competition, a record that still holds today (Le Matin 10 July 1909): Of all, Miss Van Barentzen indisputably distinguished herself by her age (eleven years eleven months) and her impeccable technique.
Prokofiev, along with other composers, was evacuated to the Caucasus when Germany started attacking the Soviet Union in 1941. It was under such circumstances that Prokofiev began work on this symphonic suite. He was working on his epic opera War and Peace and the String Quartet No. 2 at the same time.