Welcome to Episode Five of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast, featuring Daniel Grimwood. This week, to mark the 100th anniversary of his death in 1907, Danny focuses exclusively on the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Born in Bergen to a musical family, Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) studied piano at the Leipzig conservatory and spent a number of years living [...]

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Welcome to Episode Four of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast, featuring Daniel Grimwood. On this week’s show, Danny plays pieces by two Russian composers, Lyapunov and Rachmaninov. Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) studied under Balakirev and was heavily influenced by him. He was a pianist of the highest virtuosity and a composer of mostly solo piano works, although he also wrote two symphonies, [...]

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Welcome to Episode Three of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast, featuring Daniel Grimwood. This week, Danny focuses on two French composers, Charles Valentin Alkan and Francois Couperin (and finishes with a spot of JS Bach for good measure!). Alkan (1813-1888), a contemporary of Chopin and Liszt, wrote almost exclusively for the keyboard, with a volume of work ranging from the [...]

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Welcome to Episode Two of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast. This week, Danny Grimwood traces a path from the green fields of Ireland to the icy steppes of Russia, as he discusses how two western composers played a significant part in the development of Russian piano music. To demonstrate this, Danny plays pieces by John Field, Adolf von Heselt, Mily [...]

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  Welcome to Episode One of “Forgotten Melodies”, the podcast featuring mostly undiscovered piano works by composers you may not have heard of before (and a few who you probably have), played by Daniel Grimwood, one of the UK’s most exciting young pianists. For this, the first show in the series, Danny plays pieces by Kara Karaev, [...]

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