Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen: Complete Piano Music
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:
- Little Butterfly (1953)
- From Telemark. Suite on Norwegian Folk Songs, No. 1, Op. 31, No. 1 (1940–41)
- Air (1981)
- From Telemark. Suite on Norwegian Folk Songs, No. 2, Op. 31, No. 2 (1940–41)
- No. 1 Menuett
- No. 2 Evening Song
- No. 3 Gavotte
- I By the Old Church
- II When Christmas comes
- III Glacier Crowfoot
- IV The Sorpero Dance
- V Snow-clad Forest
- VI The Leitom
- Six Old Village Songs from Lom, Op. 2
- Andante funebre
- No. 1 Big Baby Larry
- No. 2 The Prize Pig
- No. 3 Kari’s Ugly cap
- No. 4 Pussy and the Tom-tit
- No. 5 The Two Sisters
- No. 6 The Fairy and the Mother
- No. 7 My Sweetheart was that kind
- No. 8 Pussy and I
- No. 9 O, it’s alright
- No. 10 Mary Lazy-Bones
- No. 11 When Baby Grows up
- No. 12 Sparrow to its Wee One
- No. 13 Up the Slope
- No. 14 Going North or going South
- No. 15 Polly, Molly, get up now
- No. 16 Between the Oven and the Table
- No. 17 Pretty Polly, Sweet and Jolly
- No. 18 Young Ola Finndale
- No. 19 The Dance round the Anvil
- Variations on a Norwegian Folktune
- Hymn: Honour Eternal Spring
Three Small Piano Pieces (1936)
Leitom Suite, Op. 33 (1950–51)*
Six Old Village Songs from Lom, Op. 2 (1927–28)
Andante funebre (1937, arr. 1949)
Norwegian Folksongs from Gudbrandsdal (1938)
Variations on a Norwegian Folktune (1930–31)
Hymn: Honour Eternal Spring (c. 1916)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
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