Cantos do Norte
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Who doesn't recognise the delicate flute that makes Peer Gynt's “Morning” emerge? Or the “The Hall of the Mountain King”, which evokes the trolls of the folk Nordic imagination, and which has been featured so many times in film and television? Both are part of the incidental music that the Norwegian Edvard Grieg wrote for Ibsen’s play, whose most memorable moments make up the two suites featured in this programme. Sibelius is also featured in this programme. The serene “Symphony No. 6”, in which includes a glimpse of appreciation for the purification of Palestrina's style, was able to remind its author of “the aroma of the first snow”. The Finnish composer's orchestral art is further illustrated by one of his most notorious symphonic poems, “En Saga”, which he considered to be his most profound work, encompassing his whole youth.
