Sl�ttebrekk/Grieg/Oslo PO/Jurowski
This is a puzzling set. In 1903 in Paris Edvard Grieg made a set of wax-cylinder recordings of his own piano music ? some of the Lyric Pieces, two movements of his E minor sonata ? which remain important historical documents, but which suffer from the limitations of the early recording process. The performances by Sigurd Sl�tterbrekk stem from a forensic examination of those recordings, during which every nuance of Grieg's playing was studied. Sl�tterbrekk then recorded not only the same works as Grieg, but the remaining movements of the sonata and the G minor Ballade, using the composer's Steinway, attempting to come as close as possible to Grieg's performances, which are also included in the set. The Piano Concerto was recorded on a modern instrument but following the principles established from the early recordings, and using the cadenza that Percy Grainger composed for it in 1908. It seems a bizarre exercise; Sl�ttebrekk's playing is accomplished enough, his account of the concerto fine, but I'm not convinced that the musicological baggage that comes with them makes them anything more.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/31/grieg-sigurd-slatterbrekk-piano-concerto
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