The butterfly flits about with grace. The solitary traveller sighs with the gentlest melancholy. Grieg’s Lyric Pieces comprise 66 touching vignettes in ten books that cover most of his composing life.

There are those perfectly content with Leif Ove Andsnes' 1990 account of the Grieg Piano Concerto; a veritable Norwegian trifecta of composer, soloist and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The latest ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 6 July 2015, after 6pm. Hot on the heels of Stephen Hough’s excellent renditions of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces comes this less flamboyant but nonetheless elegant collection ...

Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths, British pianist Stephen Hough is a true renaissance man – a top concert pianist, writer, composer and painter. He has won global acclaim for his ...

Grieg's complete Lyric Pieces would fill three discs, but Stephen Hough's recording is all that most of us will ever need; Hough's selection of 27 contains many of the best-known and a fair few ripe ...

Leave it to Stephen Hough, the British-born pianist and composer, who also happens to be an inveterate blogger, painter and author of spiritual tracts, to discover a mother lode in an all but ...

Grieg : Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 1, Arietta Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 2, Waltz vGrieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 3, Watchman's Song ...

Four pieces in this concert by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra are inspired by the piano. Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite began life as six piano pieces from Book V of his Lyric Pieces, Op. 54. Conductor ...

Spring is finally bursting out all over, so it’s a good moment to survey the way composers have evoked this most optimistic of seasons. Half of my ten choices hail from France, probably because it was ...

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Choreographer Jesica Lang is becoming a more familiar presence around The Sarasota Ballet for both dancers and audiences. She choreographed the world premiere of “Shades of Spring” for the company in ...

The last few days of unabated San Diego sunshine have me feeling particularly spring-ish even though we are technically in the dead of winter with spring still a month or so away. However, it did get ...