Edvard Grieg: Excerpts from 'Peer Gynt' // Jiří Habart & London Symphony Orchestra

2023 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition runner-up, Jiří Habart conducts excerpts from Edvard Grieg's 'Peer Gynt' Suite Nos1 & 2.
Suite 2, Movement 3. Peer Gynt's Homecoming (Stormy night on the Sea)
Suite 2, Movement 4. Solveig's Song
Filmed with the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's at the DFCC Finals in March 2023.
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最爱LSO👍👍👍

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What a great young conductor ❤️

[@garyreid2178]

Magnificent piece of music. Magnificent performance by the Maestro and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Solvieg’s Song really touched me. It has pathos , sadness and tragedy, yet in that piece there is hope. I have heard this piece before first in the anime classic Arcadia Of My Youth (Waga Seishun No Arcadia). And again in the anime series Helsing, but it had lyrics and there was a female vocalist performing the song. The common thing about this particular part in Solvieg’s Song was the opening sequence. It had been used in both.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard Peer Gynt. Now, I won’t forget it.
Bravo 😎❤️🎷👍

[@LucienMarine]

It's never too late to do well ! I read the adventures of Peer Gynt when I was a teenager. And today, I have the pleasure of writing my feeling about this Music and others of course since I am a music lover. Good reading to you ! *Lucien*

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Absolutely wonderful. 🎼💛🙏

[@LucienMarine]

Between 1874 and 1875, Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for the play Peer Gynt by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Of the 23 numbers, Edvard Grieg will select eight, arranging and re-orchestrating them into two suites for symphony orchestra. Suite No. 2, Op. 55, was written in 1891. Like the previous Suite, it is structured in four movements. Grieg is a composer fully belonging to the romanticism of the 19th century. The frequent use of chromatic progressions, audacious harmonies, so many elements that are reminiscent of the musical language of Wagner and his successors. However, he knows how to emancipate himself from this Germanic music then dominant at the time. In Peer Gynt, this popular spirit translates into a relatively simple formal and tonal plan of the pieces, most often in repetition of a single theme or even an alternation of two themes, and modulations close to the main tonality. While Solveig's song is clearly claimed to be of popular origin. Some pieces are performed in the purest spirit of Norwegian folk dances. A philosophical drama, Peer Gynt is an initiatory journey narrating the adventures of a young man in search of identity, dreams and love. Oscillating ceaselessly between courage and cowardice, Peer Gynt somehow overcomes the obstacles he encounters, most often by fleeing or taking refuge in lies. The third movement Peer Gynt's Homecoming (Allegro agitato) appears in the piece as the prelude to Act V and presages the sinking of Peer Gynt on the Norwegian coast. Finally, the last movement Solveig's Song (Andante - Allegretto tranquillamente) is sung twice by Solveig in the piece, to Acts IV and V. She awaits Peer's return. The gentle movement offers a poignant closeness to this second Suite. This tale of human existence, also nourished by legends scandinavian, thus evokes
a whole fantastic universe admirably served by the music. *Lucien*