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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, musique de scène pour le drame de Henrik Ibsen, op.23
Barbara Bonney, soprano, Solveig
Urban Malmberg, baryton, Peer Gynt / Voleur
Marianne Eklöf, mezzo-soprano, Anitra
Carl Gustaf Homgren, baryton, Receleur
Maria Andersson, Monica Einarson,
Charlotte Forsberg, Filles des pâturages
Monica Einarson, soprano, Filles des pâturages
Charlotte Forsberg, soprano, Filles des pâturages
Wenche Foss, récitant, Anitra
Toralv Maurstad, récitant, Peer Gynt
Tor Stokke, récitant, Roi de la montagne / Bossu / Mouleur de boutons
Knut Buen, Hardanger fiddle (violon de la région du Hardanger)
Paul Cortese, Alto
Choeur de Chambre Pro Musica
Orchestre Symphonique de Göteborg
Neeme Järvi, direction
réf : DG 437 842-2
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He painted with notes. He painted the people, the scenery, and the moods of Norway. In the immortal Peer Gynt Suites, Grieg captured the rising of the sun, the lamenting of a death, and, in "The Hall of the Mountain King," the imagery of a chase scene. His works contained what are yet today readily recognizable "tunes." As Grieg and his wife, Nina, strolled through the streets of Bergen, children would follow after, whistling these tunes, in tribute to the great composer. In the centuries ahead, surely the works of Grieg will continue to be whistled and hummed, and played by orchestras worldwide.
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_______________________________________________________________James Joyce taught himself Norwegian at 17 so he could read Ibsen in the original.
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I beast that I am can barely speak and write English this humble tame language.
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No wonder Joyce 
thought that Ibsen
was a greater dramatist than Shakespeare. Look at the music that Peer Gynt yielded for Edvar Grieg.
It's astonishing ~
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a crawling animal before this grand love which swoops and flies swirls crescendoes and comes closer and closer each moment to eternity as if this music stirred in my breast something I have already known somewhere somewhere in my body? in my consciousness my soul? my previous lives or parallel ones, or perhaps future ones or others which go on at the same time ~ O love O beauty O solace ~
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and the drama of this music ~ what poetry can equal it? except perhaps Shakespeare yes, Sophocles Joyce's idea was the idea of a young man, the elder older more lived Joyce knew better ~
~ This music has charms to soothe the savage beast ~ .
