Plenty of Romantic orchestral works were reduced to chamber size for home use, and piano works were orchestrated by Grieg and others. The transformation from chamber music to orchestra is comparatively rarer, and that's partly because the two genres inhabit different realms of discourse. Put that together with the fact that Norwegian Henning Kraggerud freely admits that his intent in making these arrangements was to increase the size of the slender Nordic violin concerto repertory, and you might not expect much from this ...
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Plenty of Romantic orchestral works were reduced to chamber size for home use, and piano works were orchestrated by Grieg and others. The transformation from chamber music to orchestra is comparatively rarer, and that's partly because the two genres inhabit different realms of discourse. Put that together with the fact that Norwegian Henning Kraggerud freely admits that his intent in making these arrangements was to increase the size of the slender Nordic violin concerto repertory, and you might not expect much from this set of arrangements of Edvard Grieg's three sonatas for violin and piano. These are not in themselves well-known pieces (although Grieg himself thought highly of them), and there would seem to be little reason to orchestrate them. As it happens, the arrangements and performances work very well. Partly it's because Kraggerud and co-arranger Bernt Simen Lund have done their job well, studying Grieg's other orchestrations and keeping the texture reduced to a clear set of strings and winds...
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