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Grieg: guitarworks by Peter Fletcher

Peter Fletcher

Grieg: guitarworks by Peter Fletcher

Format: CD
Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747330624
Catnr: CRC 3306
Release date: 11 February 2014
1 CD
 
Label
Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC
0044747330624
Catalogue number
CRC 3306
Release date
11 February 2014
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

'A recital of Edvard Grieg's lovely Lyric Pieces for piano, transcribed for solo guitar.
Guitarist Peter Fletcher wrote the transcriptions for this recording.
Mr. Fletcher is in demand as a performer in cultural venues throughout the United States.
“...strong technique, a consistent tone, and a bold interpretive imagination...” - American Record Guide'

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák did in Finland and Bohemia, respectively. Grieg is regarded as simultaneously nationalistic and cosmopolitan in his orientation, for although born in Bergen and buried there, he travelled widely throughout Europe, and considered his music to express both the beauty of Norwegian rural life and the culture of Europe as a whole. He is...
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák did in Finland and Bohemia, respectively.
Grieg is regarded as simultaneously nationalistic and cosmopolitan in his orientation, for although born in Bergen and buried there, he travelled widely throughout Europe, and considered his music to express both the beauty of Norwegian rural life and the culture of Europe as a whole. He is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues depicting his image, and many cultural entities named after him.
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