Book 8 of Edvard Grieg’s charming Lyric Pieces includes the famous Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Julia Wolfe’s Dark Full Ride for four drum sets provides an irresistible build-up of white-hot energy. Then Cameron Crozman plays one of Britten’s deeply personal cello suites, written for the great Rostropovich, and lastly, we hear Bartók at the height of his powers in his searing third string quartet from 1927.
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 8, Op. 65
Louise Bessette, piano
Julia Wolfe: Dark Full Ride
Architek Percussion
Benjamin Britten: Suite No. 2 for solo cello, Op. 80
Cameron Crozman, cello
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 3
Mark Lee, violin
Gwen Hoebig, violin
Isaac Chalk, viola
Blair Lofgren, cello