초기스테레오시절 그리그 <페르귄트>의 절대 명반으로 정평이 나 있는 토마스 비첨 경과 로열 필하모니 오케스트라의 걸작 연주가 Hi-Q 180g LP로 재탄생 되었다.
이미 EMI GROC 시리즈 등을 통해 서글프고 서정적인 감수성을 가장 극적으로 그려낸 연주를 많이 접하였을 터이나, 오리지널 발매 커버를 되살린 LP의 원음이 주는 감동에는 비교할 바가 못될 것이다.
특히 소프라노 일제 홀베그의 음성은 순수 아날로그 사운드를 통해 감상하여야 그 서정성이 더욱 진하게 느껴진다.
[ 수 록 곡 ]
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Music for Peer Gynt
1. Wedding March
2. Ingrid's lament
3. In the Hall of the Mountain King
4. Morning
5. Ase's Death
6. 1st Arabian Dance
7. Solveig's Song
8. Anitra's Dance
9. Return of Peer Gynt (Storm Scene)
10. Wiegenlied
Ilse Hollweg, soprano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Beecham Choral Society
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Pressed on original EMI presses at The Vinyl Factory, Hayes, England
• Cut from original EMI Master Tapes at EMI's Abbey Road Studios
• Featuring the original album artwork
This classic early stereo recording (1955-1957) has been cut at EMI's Abbey Road Studios from the original EMI master tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl on original EMI presses at The Vinyl Factory in Hayes, England. It features the original album artwork.
Sir Thomas Beecham's influence on classical music during a span of several decades across the twentieth century was unparalleled.
The Norwegian Poet and Playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in 1867, but it was not until 1876 that an abridged version, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, was produced at the Christiania Theatre. Peer Gynt, fashioned from Norwegian folkfore, is a Poetic Fantasy based on a character of the same name, who appears in the role of a great hunter, and slayer of Trolls in Absjornsen's "Norwegian Fairy Tales".
Edvard Grieg, intensely nationalistic and saturated with Norwegian folk-music, had already made his mark in the musical world with his Piano Concerto in A minor, and his delightful songs and small scale works, for which he had a particular genius. The two orchestral suites made from the Peer Gynt music soon took their place amongst the popular in the world. (Although not everyone knows the fantastic adventures of Peer Gynt, every music lover knows the music written for him.)
The first concert music to be heard by Sir Thomas Beecham was that of Edvard Grieg. He became devoted to this composer's music making his recordings unequalled. This album contains perhaps the most glorious performances of Peer Gynt music ever recorded.
"I like the amplitude and keen, spicy attack of the R.P.O. sound even more on the H.M.V. record." - Gramophone, 1959
"When we try to show our grandchildren why Beecham was for us so godlike a musician...we shall certainly pull this record from the rack." - Gramophone, 1959
