Par GRIEG EDVARD. Grieg Holberg Suite (From Holberg\'s Time) Op.40 (Full Score) Suite in the Olden Style for String Orchestra To celebrate the 200th birthday of the playwright Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), a statue was erected in his honour in 1884. Edvard Grieg, who, like Holberg, was born in Bergen, was commissioned to write an open-air cantata for the ceremony. But he also refers to Holberg in his instrumental music. The result was a ?powdered wig piece? (as Grieg wrote to his publisher) that hearkens back to Holberg?s era ? a historicising suite of baroque dances for piano, ranging from an exhilarating prelude and several dance numbers to a Bachian ?air? and an impetuous ?rigaudon?. Later Grieg arranged his ?Suite in the Olden Style? for string orchestra. This version became one of his most popular compositions. For our new scholarly-critical edition Christoph Rinne-Schroeder has meticulously examined the original print and compared it with previously neglected performance material annotated by Grieg himself. - New Urtext edition of this popular work for string orchestra - Based on previously neglected sources by Grieg himself - String parts in a practical large format (25.5 cm x 32.5 cm) / Date parution : 2022-07-30/ Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes

Grieg composed this Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in 1868 for himself to play however Edmund Neupert played the first public performance in Copenhagen on April 3 1869. The music is rife with Scandinavian influences including traits of Schumann and Mendelssohn and Norwegian folk dance elements and rhythms. It is a dramatic and dynamic work that is never flat using constant development flourishes and crescendo from the first movement to the last. Eulenberg's celebrated and highly authoritative miniature score is the definitive reference source for study performance preparation or simply for those with a love of the great orchestral works.

This well-crafted adaptation features four of the most acclaimed movements of the Peer Gynt Suite. It is truly great literature for woodwind quintets and celebrates a wide range of moods and styles, from warmly lyrical to bold aggressive. / Quintette A Vent