Edvard Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music

What an amazing set. The playing is out of this world and the interpretations of Grieg's brilliant music superb. The highlight for me is the Opera: Olav Trygvason. Although only three scenes of Act 1 were completed, due to the librettist not finishing the libretto, what is left is truly amazing. I would call it the masterpiece which was sadly never to be finished. The scoring is electrifying and supports the voices perfectly. It is dramatic. passionate and draws you into a world of Norwegian intrigue. I would highly recommend this set to anyone who loves Grieg and wants to hear it excellently played.

Read the reviews before buying. Sensitively performed. Buy with confidence, you won't be dissapointed

Wonderful music, well worth buying

This is the collection to go for if you want all Grieg's orchestral music in one handy boxed set. I also have the DG version with Neeme Jarvi, but prefer this one - the playing, conducting and recording are all peerless. You may find that you reconsider some works in the light of this set - for example, Grieg's only symphony (which the composer himself did not care for much) is very listenable to in its incarnation here.Highly recommended.

This review is not my own but from the BIS website. If you are still debating weather to get this set, debate no more. The 8 discs are available individually (I think), but you can have them for the price of 3 or 4 BIS CDs with this set!To list the various distinctions awarded to the recordings that make up this sumptuous offering is almost impossible; suffice it to say that the entire series received the Grieg Award in 2007, the year of the hundredth anniversary of the death of the composer, as well as a very special commendation by the UK Grieg Society the same year. During 2003-2006, as the individual discs were released, reviewers all over the world were heaping praise over the series - astoundingly enough, as this is repertoire that at least in part belong to some of the most well-represented on disc. But this did not seem to matter to the critics, who described the performance of the Piano Concerto as one that `will make you fall in love with the music all over again' (American Record Guide) and that of the Holberg Suite `so compelling that it simply makes you forget about any other' (Classics Today.com), deeming the Peer Gynt Suites to be `interpretations that rejuvenate even this almost hackneyed, overly familiar music, relieving it of all the ballast of performance history' (klassik.com). It was the freshness of the performances by Ole Kristian Ruud and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra that struck most critics - freshness coupled with expertise: `Bergen musicians have lived with these scores since their creation and all the performances here have a relaxed, idiomatic naturalness in their virtuosity' (Gramophone).A second point was the superior sound quality - the result of inspired and painstaking work by the BIS recording staff in combination with the splendid acoustics of the Grieg Hall in Bergen. `Sonically this production features demonstration quality both in stereo and SACD multi-channel formats' wrote the reviewer of Classics Today.com; `a fabulous complete cycle, admirably served by the splendid recording technique' was the verdict in Classica-Répertoire.The third factor contributing to the warm reception was of course the music itself, the fascination and power exerted by the Piano Concerto and the complete Peer Gynt, the emotion projected in Bergliot and Den Bergtekne, the charm and freshness of the orchestral songs and Lyric Suite - in the words of one reviewer: `music that you'd have to be either deaf or dead not to love'. The complete traversal, generally considered a reference point in the Grieg discography, is now available in this stereo-only version at a very advantageous price.

This is the Best Grieg Box ever with a very little minor, only A-minor concerto is'nt the best, I prefer Andsnes on EMI, all other recordings is the best or one of the top three Grieg. Here you get the Best ever Holberg-suite, best ever Complete Peer Gynt. It's marvellous of a Box with Grieg orchestra music. Grieg have conducted this orchestra for over 100 year ago. This orchestra is OLDER than USA. they'd found it in 1765. One of 5 oldest orchestras in the word. They are better now than ever. A orchestra from Grieg hometown. I can only recomend it at the highest rating..... This box is better then Deutshe Grammophon box with Grieg Orchestra music. I will recomend this from BIS more.