Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen: Complete Piano Music

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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)

Three Small Piano Pieces (1936)


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

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

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


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

Andante funebre (1937, arr. 1949)


15. Andante funebre

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

Variations on a Norwegian Folktune (1930–31)


35. Variations on a Norwegian Folktune

Hymn: Honour Eternal Spring (c. 1916)


36. Hymn: Honour Eternal Spring

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