Pål Eide: Pictures

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Pal Eide on Pictures
I have selected musical pictures by Grieg, Sæverud and Johansen, and Jesper Koch’s “The Mirror of the Mind” written for me, and put them together with one of the most important works of piano literature, Pictures at an Exhibition, written by Mussorgsky shortly after Grieg’s Pictures from Folk Life.
I try to find a musical and historical connection between the pieces, and look for harmonic, melodic or rhythmic similarities. Even when there is a change from one composer to the next, I look for a natural “flow,” but also seek contrasts, like a composer often trying to create a work with contrasting movements. Hopefully, you may experience the album as a whole. In concerts, I have sometimes asked the audience not to applaud between pieces. In this way you don’t break the flow of the music. By putting composers together in a non-traditional way, I hope to enable the listener to hear the music with a fresh view. I want to give the listener a sense of how the composers influence each other, and by developing their own personal style, create innovation.

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SKU: DACOCD 847 Categories: Eide - Pål Piano, Grieg𐄀 Edvard (1843-1907), Johansen𐄀 David Monrad (1888-1974), Koch𐄀 Jesper b. 1967, Mussorgsky𐄀 Modest (1839-1881), Piano, Sæverud𐄀 Harald (1897-1992)

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Edvard Grieg:
Pictures from Folk Life
1. Mountain Dance, Op. 19 No. 1
2. Wedding Procession, Op. 19 No. 2
3 From the Carnival, Op. 19 No. 3

Selected Lyric Pieces:
4. Butterfly, Op. 43 No. 1
5. To Spring, Op. 43 No. 6
6. March of the Trolls, Op. 54 No. 3
7. Bell Ringing, Op. 54 No. 6

Harald Sæverud:
8. The Ballad of Revolt, Op. 22 No. 5

David Monrad Johansen:
Pictures of the North
9. Profile of a Woman, Op. 5 No. 1
10. The Little Stone God, Op. 5 No. 2
11. Reindeer, Op. 5 No. 3
12. Towards the Mountains of my Forefathers, Op. 5 No. 4

Jesper Koch:
13. The Mirror of the Mind

Modest Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition
14. Promenade
15. Gnome
16. Promenade
17. The Old Castle
18. Promenade
19. The Tuileries Garden
20. The Ox Cart
21. Promenade
22. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
23. Two Jews – one rich, one poor
24. Promenade
25. The Limoges Market
26. The Catacombs
27. With the Dead in a Dead Language
28. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
29. The Heroic Gate of Kiev

Edvard Grieg:
Cattle Call, Op. 17 No. 22

Becoming part of Troldhaugen ©
When Sigurd Sverdrup Sandmo and Thomas Heimstad at Troldhaugen heard my album “Grey Clouds”, they invited me to give my first recital on Grieg’s piano.
The staff at EGMT has been wonderful. A unique experience was the event “Griegminute-by-minute” in 2018 when more than 600 musicians participated in live performances of all Grieg’s opuses in a 30-hour direct transmission on Norwegian national television, celebrating his 175th birthday. The coordination of this event was impressive and the atmosphere euphoric. I had the honor of performing one of his most famous works, Op. 43 and Op. 9, with singer Astrid Nordstad. We later gave a recital in Troldsalen, and this summer I will give 25 solo recitals as “Pianist of the Week” before travel to Russia to play Grieg’s piano concerto. During the days of our recording of “Pictures” we were welcomed under the best possible conditions. I am deeply grateful to have such a relation to Troldhaugen.
Performing Grieg’s music has become an important aspect of my life. The wind is still raging, and the sound of the last note of Grieg’s “Leik”/Cattle Call
(1869) is fading. Grieg heard a young woman sing this song at one of his hikes in the countryside, and could never forget it. For me, it reminds me of my childhood, and I find it to be a calming encore, a perfect example of Grieg’s genius on a small scale. The recording sessions in the home of one of my favorite composers are over. The piano and the house were welcoming hosts. When I entered the control room upstairs one day, the door opened by itself. You may think what you like about that, but some of the memorable moments of our days at Troldhaugen are now captured. I hope you will enjoy them.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 2019

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 847

EAN: 5709499847008

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