Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes plays four Lyric Pieces by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), "Bell-Ringing," "March of the Trolls," "The Brook," and Grieg's musical portrait of another composer — Niels Gade ...

The F major Piano Trio (1863) – one of three Gade works for this instrumental line-up – has a greater lightness and sense of exhibition, especially in the piano part. Some may term this salon-ish but, ...

Grieg’s music is Norway in just the same way that Elgar and Vaughan Williams are England. It is full of the idioms of Norwegian folk music synthesised with the German Romantic tradition. Like Chopin, ...