A Christmas present from Edvard Grieg

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Kent

I hope to be able to put a small segment of the music that was just 
recorded with the instrument at 436 on soon.  The comparison of how the 
instrument sounds at a lower pitch to the recording below would be 
interesting I think.  Unbelievable project they are doing... in 5 weeks 
they got 15 minutes of finished CD material. Thats because they have old 
wax roles of Edvard Grieg himself playing and are emulating his style as 
closely as possible. They pick the old recordings apart literally phrase 
for phrase.  The TV link I posted a couple days back has a very short 
segment with the pianist Sigurd Slattebrekk playing... but its a TV 
camera microphone picking up the sound so its not exactly the best 
recording.... still you can hear a different sound picture from the 
instrument. 

Cheers, and Merry Christmas
RicB


        Thanks for the link. I thoroughly enjoyed listening.

        Kent




    On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Richard Brekne wrote:

     > Hi Folks
     >
     > I thought I'd share a cut from the latest release on Edvard Griegs  
     > own piano. The piece is from Edvard Griegs Peasant Dances op 72.  
     > This is number 2: Jon Væstafæs Spring Dance.
     >
     > http://www.pianostemmer.no/music/Springdance.mp3
     >
     > Executive Producer Erid Gard Amundsen
     > Producer Tony Harrison
     > Recording Engineer Geoff Miles
     > Piano Technician Richard Brekne
     >
     > Pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
     > Piano Edvard Griegs Steinway and Sons "B"
     > Pitch A= 442
     >
     > The whole CD is available on Simax PSC 1287
     >
     > Note the pronounced killer octave sound and the rather undefined  
     > bass... especially D2 and D#2.  In the latest (yet to be released)  
     > recording work we tuned to 436 and the instrument became quite  
     > beautiful.  More on that later... a fascinating story full of  
     > conflict, myth, magic and more.
     >
     > Cheers
     > RicB
     >
     >