Grieg's

The second movement, "The Castle," quickly launches into an impish dance that sounds a bit as if Edvard Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" had been relocated to rural Moravia.

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The fog in the woods leading up to Grieg's house is particularly evocative of Aguirre, though this might be more of my emotional response to the land, as it probably doesn't completely resemble a Peruvian rainforest.

Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin' Chris Kompanek 2011

Simcock toured with Konitz and Kenny Wheeler, wrote powerful big-band music, as well as an orchestral suite for a Prom, and on his recent trio album Blues Vignette joined standards such as On Broadway to Grieg's Piano Concerto, a suite for piano and classical cello, and some absorbing originals.

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I felt Herzog's presence again a couple days later at 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg's house in Bergen.

Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin' Chris Kompanek 2011

I felt Herzog's presence again a couple days later at 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg's house in Bergen.

Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin' Chris Kompanek 2011

I felt Herzog's presence again a couple days later at 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg's house in Bergen.

Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin' Chris Kompanek 2011

David and I were discussing it and he said, "How about something like Grieg's 'Hall of The Mountain King?'"

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The fog in the woods leading up to Grieg's house is particularly evocative of Aguirre, though this might be more of my emotional response to the land, as it probably doesn't completely resemble a Peruvian rainforest.

Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin' Chris Kompanek 2011

The fog in the woods leading up to Grieg's house is particularly evocative of Aguirre, though this might be more of my emotional response to the land, as it probably doesn't completely resemble a Peruvian rainforest.

Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin' Chris Kompanek 2011

Yet perhaps most striking was the vivid highlighting of Grieg's imaginative textures and harmonies.

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