Brantelid/Hadland/Bjornkjaer - Grieg, Cello Sonata

After a meeting in 1906 in London, Grainger visited Grieg in Bergen the following year, only two months before the older composer passed away. The Danish-Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid and his Norwegian chamber music partner Christian Ihle Hadland now turn to a programme of cello works by the two composers, opening with Grieg's celebrated Cello Sonata. They also include less well-known pieces, however, such as the composer's arrangement of the Allegretto from his third violin sonata, and an Andante con moto intended as part of a never completed piano trio, in which they are joined by the violinist Lars Bj�rnkj�r. Discovered after Grieg's death, the piece would have to wait more than 70 years before receiving its first performance.