Edvard Grieg set a number of texts from the epic poem "Haugtussa" by his countryman and near-contemporary Arne Garborg, and collected eight of them, from one just of the epic's many sections, in his song cycle Haugtussa. Norwegian composer Olav Anton Thommessen (born 1946) takes the songs by Grieg as well as the composer's other works and sketches and uses them as the basis for Veslemøy Synsk, his own 45-song, two-hour cycle covering the whole narrative of Garborg's epic. He writes in the program notes, "Grieg had enough ...
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Edvard Grieg set a number of texts from the epic poem "Haugtussa" by his countryman and near-contemporary Arne Garborg, and collected eight of them, from one just of the epic's many sections, in his song cycle Haugtussa. Norwegian composer Olav Anton Thommessen (born 1946) takes the songs by Grieg as well as the composer's other works and sketches and uses them as the basis for Veslemøy Synsk, his own 45-song, two-hour cycle covering the whole narrative of Garborg's epic. He writes in the program notes, "Grieg had enough material to complete a larger work based on the cycle; I have taken the liberty of doing the work for him." Thommessen is free and eclectic in his treatment of his source material; for some movements, like the seventh song, "Veslemøy," he uses Grieg's original almost as written, with only a few adjustments and embellishments. Other songs refract the music through such a distorted lens that it might not be recognizable as the work of the older composer. The pieces are unified, though,...
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