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Grieg: Greatest Hits

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The peer gynt suite is very delicate and it relaxes me. Whenever I hear the first movement of Peer Gynt, I feel as if I am walking along the forest at dawn with sunshine passing through the tall trees. It calms me and I usually close my eyes to imagine Grieg's creative masterpiece. What also interests me the fourth movement. It starts with slow and quiet and then slowly the music accelerates with power. Like the title, "Mountain King," says itself, you can feel the grandness of the music toward the end.

The piano concerto in a minor is my favorite. This music seem to convey the full spectrum from quiet and delicate or gracious feel of music to more powerful and magnificent all proportionally adequately. It is very enjoyable. Whenever I listen to this music, I feel as if I am resting in the high mountainn looking at the full panorama. Anyway, that's just my imagination I feel from his music and of course, yours can be very different from mine.

As for the CD quality, I hear no distraction sound and it is recorded well, I think. The little cover booklet can be informative about Grieg. Also nice price from Amazon.

This CD goes beyond just introducing Grieg. It is a truly beautiful and for me, invaluable collection of this excellent composer. Grieg had an inimitable gift for exploring emotion, often sadness and nostalgia. However, he also had a large touch of the virtuoso, as demonstrated by the famous Piano Concerto. True, the last 2 movements are not included here; however, the first is still stunning. The Peer Gynt Suites are wonderfully played, and Ase's Death and Heartwounds are especially noteworthy - the lush orchestral sounds of these gorgeous pieces unfold exquisitely. Homage March is a nice change of pace, upbeat and with a memorable theme, and Leonard Bernstein moves at a devilish pace in March of the Trolls. This CD will not disappoint you - buy it today!

For an intro to Greig, this is great. The "hall of the mountain king" is done very well.

I bought this for the recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, but I like the Homage March from Sigurd Jorsalfar even more.

All of Grieg's music has a sad, melancholy sound which means Scandinavia to me.

The various artists and orchestras on this recording are all great.

this was my 1st intro to grieg. awsome recording. adding more to the collection

I absolutely loved the string music on Track 3. I remembered it from an old PC RPG called Quest for Glory IV. I was disappointed to find out that Track 4 was only a minute and a half long, because I grew up loving that song from the various places I heard it (Fantasia and a kid Detective PC game from the late 80's).
Overall, though, Grieg's greatest hits is a must-have for collectors of classical music. Grieg is revered as Norway's greatest composer of all time and he certainly has a knack for creating imagery of bustling fjords and majestic mountainsides with interlaced river ravines.

I bought this for my husband but fell in love with it myself. I had never heard of it but now consider Edvard Grieg my favorite composer. It is magnificent.

This would be a good CD is you ever get the right one from Amazon. Not being able to reach a human operator at Amazon, I have repeatedly tried to inform them via the "returns page" that their stock of this CD has a problem because althought the CD container/box says "Greatest Hits Grieg", the actual CD inside is "Greatest Hits Claude Debussy".

I given up on Amazon. This is my last attempt at any purchase with this company.

I tried to buy this twice. Both times I got the Best of DeBussey and not Grieg. From 2 different sources. Sony screwed up!

I got the Grieg disk in the mail and when I opened it it contained Claude Debussy's Greatest Hits. Please send me the Grieg I asked for?!

Sincerely, Ken Rotkoff