Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen: Complete Piano Music

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Catalogue No: TOCC0584
EAN/UPC: 5060113445841
Release Date: 2021-06-04
Composer: Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen
Artists: Øyvind Aase

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Norwegian folksong and dance constitute the very DNA of the music of Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903–84), on both a large and a small scale – from Draumkvedet, the 1936 oratorio that was his first major success, to the tiny miniatures that form most of his piano music, recorded here in its entirety for the first time. The apparent simplicity of much of this material belies the unassuming sophistication of its construction: many of these pieces, some barely a minute long, seem – to adapt William Blake – to contain the world in a grain of sand.

Øyvind Aase, piano

Listen To This Recording:

  1. Little Butterfly (1953)
  2. From Telemark. Suite on Norwegian Folk Songs, No. 1, Op. 31, No. 1 (1940–41)
  3. Air (1981)
  4. From Telemark. Suite on Norwegian Folk Songs, No. 2, Op. 31, No. 2 (1940–41)

    5. Three Small Piano Pieces (1936)

  5. No. 1 Menuett
  6. No. 2 Evening Song
  7. No. 3 Gavotte

    8. Leitom Suite, Op. 33 (1950–51)*

  8. I By the Old Church
  9. II When Christmas comes
  10. III Glacier Crowfoot
  11. IV The Sorpero Dance
  12. V Snow-clad Forest
  13. VI The Leitom

    14. Six Old Village Songs from Lom, Op. 2 (1927–28)

  14. Six Old Village Songs from Lom, Op. 2

    15. Andante funebre (1937, arr. 1949)

  15. Andante funebre

    16. Norwegian Folksongs from Gudbrandsdal (1938)

  16. No. 1 Big Baby Larry
  17. No. 2 The Prize Pig
  18. No. 3 Kari’s Ugly cap
  19. No. 4 Pussy and the Tom-tit
  20. No. 5 The Two Sisters
  21. No. 6 The Fairy and the Mother
  22. No. 7 My Sweetheart was that kind
  23. No. 8 Pussy and I
  24. No. 9 O, it’s alright
  25. No. 10 Mary Lazy-Bones
  26. No. 11 When Baby Grows up
  27. No. 12 Sparrow to its Wee One
  28. No. 13 Up the Slope
  29. No. 14 Going North or going South
  30. No. 15 Polly, Molly, get up now
  31. No. 16 Between the Oven and the Table
  32. No. 17 Pretty Polly, Sweet and Jolly
  33. No. 18 Young Ola Finndale
  34. No. 19 The Dance round the Anvil

    35. Variations on a Norwegian Folktune (1930–31)

  35. Variations on a Norwegian Folktune

    36. Hymn: Honour Eternal Spring (c. 1916)

  36. Hymn: Honour Eternal Spring

ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS

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