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| Composer | Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Year | 1875 |
| Work type | Stage and film |
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Sir Simon Keenlyside masterful in songs by Sibelius in Cleveland
Sibelius’s rarely performed orchestral songs received memorable performances by Keenlyside and The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Welser-Möst. Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Strauss’s early Aus Italien filled out the program.
Responding to the intangible: Grieg and Čiurlionis at Symphony Hall
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO present the UK première of a neglected Lithuanian tone poem alongside Grieg’s Peer Gynt.
Utter despair and heavenly bliss: Ken-David Masur leads the Boston Symphony in incidental music
Composers from Purcell to Pierre Boulez have written incidental music. In many cases it proves far from incidental, retaining a place in the concert hall long after the play has faded into oblivion.