Alexander Ullman - Grieg (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Piano Transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41: No. 1, Lullaby
02. Piano Transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41: No. 2, Little Haakon
03. Piano Transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41: No. 3, I Love Thee
04. Piano Transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41: No. 4, My Love She Was So Pure
05. Piano Transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41: No. 5, The Princess
06. Piano Transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41: No. 6, To Spring
07. Moods, Op. 73: No. 1, Resignation
08. Moods, Op. 73: No. 2, Scherzo-Impromptu
09. Moods, Op. 73: No. 3, A Ride at Night
10. Moods, Op. 73: No. 4, Folk Tune
11. Moods, Op. 73: No. 5, Study (Hommage à Chopin)
12. Moods, Op. 73: No. 6, Students' Serenade
13. Moods, Op. 73: No. 7, The Mountaineer's Song
14. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Transcr. for Piano by A. Ullman): I. Morning Mood
15. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Transcr. for Piano by A. Ullman): II. Death of Åse
16. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Transcr. for Piano by A. Ullman): III. Anitra's Dance
17. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Transcr. for Piano by A. Ullman): IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
18. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 1, Once Upon a Time
19. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 2, Summer's Eve
20. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 3, Puck
21. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 4, Peace of the Woods
22. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 5, Norwegian Dance
23. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 6, Gone
24. Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71: No. 7, Remembrances



Rubicon Classics is pleased to announce the third solo album for the label from pianist Alexander Ullman, presenting here a programme of Edvard Grieg’s Moods, Songs and Lyric Pieces. The prize of the album, Alexander’s own transcriptions of music from the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, draw out the colour of the orchestra from the piano, perhaps more than the composer’s own.

Like Chopin, Grieg was more comfortable creating exquisite miniatures rather than large scale orchestral works. Both produced concertos for the piano, and Grieg’s example is one of the most popular in the repertoire, but it is in his small-scale solo works that his poetic musical expression had free reign. Conductor Hans von Bulow called him ‘The Chopin of the North’. Grieg’s music is full of Norwegian folk idioms as his Lyric Pieces vividly illustrate.

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