It’s the birthday of Norwegian composer and concert pianist Edvard Grieg (1842-1907), the guy who put Norway on the musical map. Grieg’s Holberg Suite, composed 1884, consists of five movements, each based on an 18th century dance form. Here is the third movement, played by the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra — a group of musicians who make no secret of how much fun they’re having.
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Thank you for reblogging. 🙂
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Always with a great pleasure! Thank you very much for your nice postings. They are like the sunshine in the dark. Have a nice weekend! 😉 Michael
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Delightful! Thank you for the introduction. 🙂
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Lovely. Happy Belated Birthday, Edvard. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Nice to see that some ppl play classical music in concert w/o wearing stone faces and penguin suits. And they do play it well.
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And from memory! In fact, if you go to YouTube, you can see them perform the entire suite — all five movements — from memory. (Apparently in order to join this orchestra, in addition to being a virtuoso musician, you also have to have a memory like a steel trap.) In the final movement they cut loose and start dancing around the stage with their instruments, never missing a note.
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OK, I have bookmarked it. Thanks.
Up to now, I have thought of the Holberg Suite as one of many good pieces that are so very popular with the ppl who compile playlists on good radio stations that I hear it a little too often. But hearing and seeing this performance really is special.
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The Peer Gynt Suite #1 seems to be the one that gets scheduled a little too frequently on radio stations around here (especially on listener request programs), but I know what you mean.
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