Edvard Hagerup Grieg

A cunningly contrived arrangement by Carlo Martelli of one of the most well known of Grieg's many short piano compositions. For conservatories and professionals.

Ibsen, the author of Peer Gynt, commissioned Grieg to compose incidental music for his play in 1874. The two suites that the composer compiled were decisive in winning universal recognition for his work. Death of Åse and Anitra's Dance are here arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.

Exquisitely touching and beautifully laid out for the four strings by Carlo Martelli, this is one of the more popular of Grieg's Songs Without Words. For secondary schools, colleges, conservatories and professionals.

This arrangement by Carlo Martelli is one of six characteristic pieces originally composed for pianoforte. The composer later orchestrated four of them to comprise his Lyric Pieces of which this is the second movement. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.

This, the last and liveliest of the set of Norwegian Dances, is characterised by the composers conspicuous gift for melody, nourished by the folk tunes of his native Norway. Arranged by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.

This is the third of four national dances by Grieg originally written for the pianoforte. The jauntiness and limpid beauty of the original is perfectly captured in this arrangement by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.

Grieg was essentially a miniaturist and therefore he tended to excel at this kind of piece, which evokes with a few characterized turns and intervals a deep love for his homeland. Arranged by Carlo Martelli.

This charming and characteristic dance is one of Grieg's many pieces for piano with a distinct national flavour, here expertly transcribed for string quartet by Carlo Martelli. For conservatories and professionals.

This is one of more than sixty short piano pieces by the famous Norwegian composer, and is also one of four movements that Grieg orchestrated and incorporated into his Lyric Pieces. For secondary schools, colleges, conservatories and professionals. The Pavão Quartet recorded this arrangement on the CD Dreaming, released in 2008 on Discrete Recordings DISC0801 and re-released in 2010 on Discadia Records DISCA001. Included on the same CD are four more of Martelli’s Elgar, Beethoven, Debussy and Dvořák arrangements also published by Broadbent & Dunn.

Grieg's beautiful evocation of dawn is here superbly translated for the four stringed instruments by Carlo Martelli. For conservatories and professionals.

One of six Lyric Pieces, originally for piano, which have been expertly transcribed for the four strings by Carlo Martelli. Better known in its orchestrated version this quiet march has a wistful middle section.

One of the most difficult problems for an arranger with only a string quartet to deal with is to reproduce and translate into chamber music terms the cumulative effect of a lengthy orchestral crescendo. Carlo Martelli in this case has solved the problem to brilliant effect. For conservatories and professionals.

This opus cleverly conjures up the vision of an approaching procession, the wild merrymaking as it passes by and its subsequent fading away into the distance. In the closing bars of this characteristically masterly arrangement Carlo Martelli has introduced sly references to both Mendelssohn's and Wagner's wedding marches. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.