Period instrument Grieg

[MickyD]

I came across this today - the Piano Concerto on a period piano with the Orchestra of the 18th century. A radio broadcast but later released on CD by the Chopin Institut. An interesting take on this old warhorse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZPXmn8hWPg

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I was due to go on a Norwegian cruise, but it was cancelled due to lockdown.

One the highlights booked was to have been a recital on Grieg’s own piano.

One day, perhaps…

[Mandryka]

You may want to try Heidi Kommerell's MDG recording on MDG -- a selection of Lyric Pieces, she plays a Streicher.

[gradus]

Didn't Andsnes issue a recording made on Grieg's Steinway?

[MickyD]

Didn't Andsnes issue a recording made on Grieg's Steinway?

Yes, he did, for EMI. I have that and though I enjoyed the Piano Concerto in the recording above, I wonder if it is very authentic to use an 1849 Pleyel for it? Grieg is surely a generation on from the pianos of Chopin's time. But it's a fascinating listen.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, he did, for EMI. I have that and though I enjoyed the Piano Concerto in the recording above, I wonder if it is very authentic to use an 1849 Pleyel for it? Grieg is surely a generation on from the pianos of Chopin's time. But it's a fascinating listen.

If it were the piano Grieg actually owned and played, surely that would be ‘authentic’ enough? Grieg would hardly have bought a new piano on, say, a 5-yearly basis in order to keep bang up to date. 19 is almost nothing in ‘piano years’.

[Mandryka]

Recommendation from me for the Heidi Kommerell recording, the music is really enhanced for me by her Streicher.

[MickyD]

If it were the piano Grieg actually owned and played, surely that would be ‘authentic’ enough? Grieg would hardly have bought a new piano on, say, a 5-yearly basis in order to keep bang up to date. 19 is almost nothing in ‘piano years’.

You're right! But I wonder if Pleyels were available in Norway? I will have to buy the disc and read the programme notes to see what lead to the decision to use this instrument.

[vinteuil]

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... not forgetting the Egri-Pertis duo on their 1902 Pleyel double piano -

https://egri-pertis.com/en/member/en-grieg-norwegian-melodies/

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[MickyD]

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... not forgetting the Egri-Pertis duo on their 1902 Pleyel double piano -

https://egri-pertis.com/en/member/en-grieg-norwegian-melodies/

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Oh, that looks like a disc to be had, Vints!

[richardfinegold]

Real Period Music Grieg would add a Hardanger Fiddle

[oddoneout]

Going slightly off topic https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...th-les-siecles
Don't know about anyone else but when mention of period instrument performances for music from well into the 20th century arises I start to feel very old!

[Bryn]

Going slightly off topic https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...th-les-siecles
Don't know about anyone else but when mention of period instrument performances for music from well into the 20th century arises I start to feel very old!

Why? Instrument-building technology continues to change with each passing year. The concerto was composed in 1868, anyway.

[CallMePaul]

I have a recording of Claire Chevalier and Jos van Immerseel playing Grieg's op35 Norwegian Danses (coupled with Dvorak op46 and Brahms's Hungarian Dances 11-21 on a Bechstein from 1870. I can recommend this to anyone interested in 19th century pianos and the music written for them. Claire Chevalier has also recorded Musorgsky piano music, including a fine Pictures from an Exhibition on a Russian-built Becker piano contemporary with the music. However, this seems to have been deleted; Presto does not list it and Chevalier does not appear in their pianist listings. I bought the two discs together at Forsyth's in Manchester last autumn.

[vinteuil]

I Claire Chevalier has also recorded Musorgsky piano music, including a fine Pictures from an Exhibition on a Russian-built Becker piano contemporary with the music. However, this seems to have been deleted; Presto does not list it and Chevalier does not appear in their pianist listings. I bought the two discs together at Forsyth's in Manchester last autumn.

... I think amazon have it -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modest-Mussorgsky-Piano-Claire-Chevalier/dp/B01MCTBCC0

There is also this Chevalier/Immerseel recording, which is fun -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Piano-Duos-Jos-Immerseel/dp/B0000C8WY1

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