My music note for this week will be short. I don’t feel I did justice to Grieg’s Second Piano Concerto in B minor with the recordings I shared. I found a much better recording. I have been listening to it nonstop for days. It is one of the jazziest concertos I’ve ever heard. Every member of my large extended family was subjected to it – that’s how much I love it.
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Much better interpretation. Thanks for this joyful noise. 🙂
Hello Vitaliy,
I’ve just been listen to the You Tube above and it was indeed very jazzy, almost a modern beat to it.
The arrangement was done by Percy Grainger, an Australian who was a great admirer of Grieg and indeed worked with him.
Percy was also very interesting, as this short article shows:
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2010/january/1290491284/shane-maloney/percy-grainger-edvard-grieg
Cheers from Australia.
Why did you call it No. 2?
Makes me feel the majesty of the fjords.