Folke Gräsbeck - Folke Gräsbeck plays Sibelius on the Ainola Piano (2015)

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Artist: Folke Gräsbeck
Title: Folke Gräsbeck plays Sibelius on the Ainola Piano
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: BIS
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 80:37
Total Size: 266 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Jean Sibelius
1. Andantino in B major, JS44 (1888) 1'26

2. Allegretto in B flat minor, JS18 (1888) 0'59

3. Largo in A major, JS117 (1888) 4'18

from Six Impromptus, Op.5 (1893)
4. No.2 in G minor 1'54
5. No.5 in B minor 3'34

from Ten Pieces, Op.24
6. No.3. Caprice (1898) 3'17
7. No.9. Romance in D flat major (1901) 3'49

8. Finlandia, Op.26 (1899, rev. 1900) 9'06

9. Musette, Op.27 No.3 (1898) 2'18

10. [Polka] Aino in C minor (1902-05) 0'27

11. Valse triste, Op.44 No.1 (1903, rev. 1904) 4'44

12. Pan and Echo, Op.53 (1906) 3'51

13. Rondino in G sharp minor, Op.68 No.1 (1912) 3'18

14. Granen (The Spruce), Op.75 No.5 (1914, rev. 1919) 3'04

from Thirteen Pieces, Op.76
15. No.2. Etude (1911) 1'19
16. No.9. Arabesque (1914) 1'00
17. No.10. Elegiaco (1916) 2'18
18. No.12. Capriccietto (1914) 0'45
19. No.13. Harlequinade (1916) 1'07

Five Pieces (The Flowers), Op.85
20. No.1. Bellis (The Daisy) (1917) 1'19
21. No.2. Oeillet (The Carnation) (1916) 1'43
22. No.3. Iris (The Iris) (1916) 3'11
23. No.4. Aquileja (The Columbine) (1917) 2'13
24. No.5. Campanula (The Campanula) (1917) 25'15

Two Pieces for Oscar Parviainen (1919)
25. Andantino, JS201 1'11
26. Con passione, JS53 1'07

from Eight Short Pieces, Op.99 (1922)
27. No.3. Souvenir 2'20
28. No.7. Moment de valse 1'11

29. Scene romantique, Op.101 No.5 (1923-24) 3'38

31. Landscape II (1928-29) 2'58

"The piano used for this recording is the Steinway that Jean Sibelius – 150 this year – played at Ainola his forest home overlooking Lake Tuusula in rural Finland. The disc’s liner notes enthuse that this very same keyboard witnessed the birth of Sibelius’s sixth and seventh symphonies and was played by pianist friends as illustrious as Wilhelm Kempff and Emil Gilels. Even if you’re not enough of an instrument anorak to go weak at the knees over such details, the sound of the piano really is lovely: sweet, nutty, with soft articulation and endearingly warbly tuning. Folke Gräsbeck — a Sibelius specialist and an admirably unfussy player — offers a generous selection of the composer’s piano music, from affectionate miniatures to ballsy Finlandia transcriptions, and through it all we glimpse Sibelius at his most intimate, charming and delicate. And yes, hearing the instrument he composed for, recorded in situ in the home where he composed, turns out to be quite a thrill."

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