We sat down with superstar pianist Gabriela Montero before she performed Grieg's majestic piano concerto at Classic FM Live in Cardiff, and she showed us how it's done. It's one of the hardest pieces ...
Two weeks of Hall of Fame favourites come to a close with a complete performance on Friday of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. The piece has its own fifteen minutes of fame thanks to a TV comedy ...
If familiarity breeds contempt, then the Grieg "Piano Concerto in A Minor" should be positively despised. But oddly, the work is far more loved than loathed. It's been a staple in the classical ...
When he was 15, Grieg heard Clara Schumann play her husband’s piano concerto, and his own early piano music is highly influenced by Schumann and, to a certain degree, also Mendelssohn. Grieg wrote his ...
This is a puzzling set. In 1903 in Paris Edvard Grieg made a set of wax-cylinder recordings of his own piano music – some of the Lyric Pieces, two movements of his E minor sonata – which remain ...
Does the world need another recording of the Grieg piano concerto? Possibly not, but this pairing with the Saint-Saëns second concerto in G minor, Op 22 makes an attractive package from the young ...
Edvard Grieg's piano concerto is one of the most popular concertos in the repertoire, and is the only concerto that Grieg finished. Grieg wrote his piano concerto at just 24 years of age, but ...