Peter Donohoe - Lyric Pieces (CD) - CD

Details: If Chopin 'invented' the Mazurka, then surely by the same token Grieg 'invented' the Lyric Piece. Over his lifetime he published ten volumes of Lyric Pieces, containing sixty-six individual works. Born in Bergen, Grieg studied in Leipzig and became established as Norway's leading composer, successfully synthesising Norwegian folk music with the forms and conventions of the German...