Edvard Grieg: Orchestral Works

Norway's voice in the world: Edvard Grieg is as indissolubly connected to the "morning mood" from his music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt as Mozart with the little night music or Ravel with the Boléro. Born in 1843 into the prosperous merchant milieu of the proud Hanseatic city of Bergen, the pianistic gifted Grieg went to Leipzig at the tender age of 15 to study music. Later, when Grieg made a critical comment about the time in Leipzig, he received impressive impressions here, where Mendelssohn and Schumann's mind still blew. Three years in Copenhagen from 1963 to 1866 brought the young artist, who has since enjoyed success as a pianist and conductor, into contact with flourishing Scandinavian national romantic trends. (Part of a Quote Detmar Huchting)

“Founded in 1959 by Neville Marriner and an array of London musicans, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has long been one of the world's leading chamber orchestras. The ACMF blazed the trail for the stylistic revival of ancient music in the 1960s.” — Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Sir Neville Marriner