Folk-song to Art-song
Translation and Interpretation
`Lillegrieg'
`Melodies of the Heart'
`A balanced mind, a spiritual vitality...'
`The claim of the ideal'
`...awakened from a long, long trance'
`The Mountain Thrall'
`The Goal'
Travels and `Travel Memories'
`Homecoming'
Haugtussa
`Music's torch, which ever burns...'
All is admiration for a study which, as well as fulfilling those
old cliches 'essential' and 'important', is most readably written.
More than being just a guide to the songs, it becomes en route one
of the most perceptive, and detailed, books in English on the
composer yet published.
*GRAMOPHONE*
Beryl Foster's authoritative study can claim to be the most
thorough investigation of this repertoire yet to have appeared in
English, and is likely to remain the standard work on the subject
for many years to come.
*TLS*
Beryl Foster's Songs of Edvard Grieg is a wonder...her scholarship
and musicianship are writ large throughout its pages.
*ANGLO-NORSE REVIEW*
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