Grieg & Strauss
Brussels Philharmonic, Saleem Ashkar, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Grieg and Norwegian folk music, Strauss and the Bavarian Alps: both express and share their love for their homeland. Grieg was barely twenty-five when he wrote his Piano Concerto - but brilliant maturity, melancholy and power infuse every note. Richard Strauss was twice his age when he described a day in his beloved Bavarian Alps in Eine Alpensinfonie: an impressive and virtuosic mastery in sixty episodes.
Flagey, Brussels Philharmonic
