Grieg Choral CD - positive review

From Audiophile Audition:

Edvard Grieg is rarely associated with choral singing; most listeners rarely get past the Piano Concerto, Peer Gynt or perhaps the Lyric Suite. For lovers of choral music, this disc will come as a most welcome and musically satisfying surprise. The disc incorporates two works, Album for Male Voices, (yes, sung by an all-male choir) and Seven Children's Songs, sung by a female choir, but rather than taking them separately, the songs are interspersed with each other to a thrilling effect. According to the liner notes, Grieg's choral composition style was stylistically all over the place, so it was a conscious choice (and in keeping with Grieg's spirit) to program the first two offerings non-sequentially. The full choir joins for the remainder of the disc, which includes the secular Last Spring, along with three religious-oriented offerings, the beautiful Whitsun Hymn, Ave, Maris Stella and Four Psalms.

This disc offers substantial proof that perhaps the classical world should re-evaluate Grieg's place as a choral composer; although his output was not substantial in terms of sheer numbers, don't we usually gravitate towards quality over quantity?

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