Edvard Grieg ‒ Piano Sonata, Op.7

Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), Piano Sonata, Op.7 (1865) Performed by Einar Steen-Nøkleberg 00:00 - No. 1 Allegro moderato 04:31 - No. 2 Andante molto 08:58 - No. 3 Alla Menuetto, ma poco più lento 12:22 - No. Finale: Molto allegro Early on in his career, before discovering his talents for miniatures, songs, and incidental music, Edvard Grieg tried his hand at more traditional concert music in its then-rigidly codified styles and forms. Indeed, the list of Grieg’s almost entirely unplayed early compositions reads like a text of essential concert music varieties: a symphony, some chamber sonatas, an abandoned string quartet, a piano concerto. The first of all these standard concert works to be completed was the Sonata for piano in E minor, Op. 7 (1865, revised 1887), a work so obscure that one can dig through book after book without catching a single reference to it and plunder shelf after shelf without finding either a copy or a recording. And yet, for all that