Since you are interested in The Complete Orchestral Music (8 CDs special price), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GRIEG
Norwegian Dances / Symphonic Dances / Lyric Suite Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2003 ] Record of the Year Award 2003 The Grieg Society of Great Britain |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Holberg Suite / Two Elegiac Melodies / Two Lyric Pieces / etc Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] "This is simply the most beautiful record of Grieg's string music in the catalogue, and one of the most beautiful and realistic recordings of strings we have ever heard. Try and hear the disc on SACD equipment with four speakers, and you will be... |
SAEVERUD
Orchestral Vol. 6 (Includes Symphony No.5, 'Quasi una fantasia') Gordon Hunt (oboe) / Stavanger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] "Superb recordings in the normal BIS manner, with similarly excellent performances from the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. More please!" (MusicWeb Feb 2004) |
GRIEG
Sigurd Jorsalfar (incidental music for baritone, male choir and orchestra, Op.22) / etc Hakan Hagegard (baritone) Garild Mauseth (narrator) / Male-voice choir from the Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Philharmonic / Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] "..you really need to hear this sensational disc. The Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak offers about eight minutes of orchestral Sturm und Drang as intense as anything by Berlioz or Mahler; and as recorded here it sounds like a tone poem of Jon... |
GRIEG
Orchestral Music Vol 1 (In Autumn; Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16; Symphony in C minor ) Noriko Ogawa (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "Outstanding concert from an orchestra on home ground and a distinguished soloist." (Gramophone) |
GRIEG
Olav Trygvason and Orchestral Songs Solveig Kringelborn (sop) Ingebjarg Kosmo (mezzo) Trond Halstein Moe (bar) Marita Solberg (sop) / Bergen Philharmonic Choir / Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "Collectors of this series need not hesitate but the disc should be of interest to many lovers of 19th century music. Playing some of the Olav Trygvason music at a blindfold test could be a fascinating climax of a music lovers'... |
GEIRR TVEITT
Wedding Suite & Troll Tunes Stavanger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] Geirr Tveitt was only sixteen when he began to notate folk melodies as they were sung by elderly people in the neighbourhood in Hardanger. |
GEIRR TVEITT
Prillar & Sun God Symphony Stavanger Symphony Orchestra / Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "Beautifully played and characterful accounts...recommended" (Gramophone) |
SAEVERUD
Saeverud - Orchestral Vol. 6 (Includes Overtura appassionata & Divertimento No.1 for flute and strings) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra / Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] With this eighth volume BIS close their series of the orchestral music by Norway's greatest symphonist, Harald Sæverud (1897-1992). |
SAEVERUD
Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 8. Truls Mark (cello) / Stavanger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / CD - released 6/Jun/2000 ] Music from this highly popular Norwegian composer! |