Grieg Two elegical pieces - Våren (Last Spring)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This piece is so incredibly beautiful. It is one of two elegical pieces op. 34, written for orchestra by Edvard Grieg, the other one being "Hjertesår" ("the Wounded Heart").
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This was played as the last song in my Fathers funeral. A beautiful piece.
My dad told me to listen to this beautiful music when I was a little child and I always had to weep... and I still do ! One of the most beautiful compositions I know !! When my dad passed away I insisted to play the moving music again !
I first heard this piece as a full orchestral directed by Carmen Dragon. It gave me the opportunity to discover one of the best composers of all time. Edvard, wherever you are, your music continues to stir the soul in delightful and profound ways. Thank you for your generous gift you have given us.
This beautiful, haunting melody reminds me so much of my brother, his lifelong struggled with mental illness, tortured and loving and artistic, and our loss. It's a heart-warming, bittersweet, lovely piece, and I never tire of hearing it. Perfection in these few minutes.
The return of the Sun announcing the arrival of Spring and the anticipation of the warm Summer months to come.
This piece holds all that emotion and much, much more.
It has always at the forefront of my fave Classics list since my Father first played it to me. 🙏
Whenever you have the chance to visit Norway, and in particular the town Bergen, make sure to stop by at Grieg's home Troldhaugen and wander around while listening to this piece in your head (or even at a concert there). You will clearly see where Grieg got his inspiration from.
I'm planning to go there this summer :).
Bergen er best
So true! My first trip to Norway, I listened to Grieg while on the train from Oslo to Lillehammer. Passing by the many, many pine trees on the way, this music fit the scene perfectly. I adore this piece. My fondest memory is hearing this during the marriage of Prinsesse Märthe and Ari Behn (RIP) in 2002. I watched it live on TV while in Norway. Unforgettable.
Last spring when we went to quarantine, I remember how I walked in the streets and fields and forests here in Finland that early springs sun had made alive again with its golden light. I had this song in my earphones and I felt truly hopeful and alive in those moments, as if the spring had made realize, that even though the times were hard, I still could feel full and happy. Yes I miss those times. Sounds absurd but it's true
When I know I need to cry and can't quite, I play this piece. Gets the waters flowing every time. One of the loveliest pieces of music I have ever heard.
There's a yearning in this piece that few others, for me, can equal.
I've played this in my youth always enjoyed it....as an adult I can't listen to it without weeping...just pulls at my brain in ways I didn't understand as a child/teenager
Similar sentiment here. Played it as a kid in orchestras, enjoyed it, recently came back to mind and I had to search for quite a while to find it again. Now I want to play it again because this touches me in ways it never could've as a kid.
Same. I played it as a kid in orchestra and still remember this piece well
I discovered this piece a half century ago when we played it in high school band, and even with our amateur playing, it was so beautiful it remained in my heart all these years.
I made a personal playlist of short classical pieces and these six just flow into each other: Tchaikovsky's "Andante Cantabile" from String Quartet No 1, Handel's "Largo" from Xerxes, Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess," Faure's "Pavane," Bach's "Air for the G String" (recommend Hallé Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes) and Grieg's "Last Spring" ... just a suggestion for all those who love this piece.
nice playlist
Nice taste! I recommend you listen to more classical music, there's so much more out there that is absolutely stunning.
Tree Walker ....thanks for the playlist, got any more?
One of the most bittersweet pieces of classical music that I know of. The name is wonderfully appropriate.
Norge...jeg elsker deg! ❤️😍
This is one of the pieces that I want played at my funeral--whether this orchestral version, Barbara Bonney's singing, or a chorus.
I was fortunate to grow up in NY (Bvkln) in the late 40s-50s. We had great live TV beamed directly across the East River to the roof antenna on our brownstone in Greenpoint and one of our family's faves was "I Remember Mama" (Peggy Wood). The closing theme was this piece. Very, very beautiful. I'll never forget it. Thanks for the posting.
I'm glad someone else remembered this as the theme music for the TV show "Mama" from the late 1940s. It starred Peggy Wood, who later played the head of the convent in "The Sound of Music." The beauty of the music is accompanied by an air of sadness.
I went on You Tube, found the TV series Mama and played a bit of it. Then went to the end credits and this lovely music played. It all came back. My lovely Mum, who passed away July 2017, and the tears started straight away. I never moved home until after Mum died. I lived with her in Kent, England from birth until she died when I was 51. Such a lovely lady.
I was very young when we would watch " i remember Mama ". The music haunted me. It was years before i found out what it was. So beautiful
This piece is so amazing. It has got part of all that music can give you all together. It's the story of a man experiencing his last spring, and he probably knows it. Perhaps it's cancer, who knows (I most certainly do not :) But you can clearly hear the tips of both darkness, desperation, but also hope and shear bliss at some points. But then it falls down into reality again, remembering that he's sick.. It's so moving..
Edvard Grieg was an amazing talent.
Written 26 years before he died ;) A healthy 41 year old man! He had a loving marriage and built their family home 4 years later. Don't think he thought about death too much when writing this.. At least not his own.
This was on a cassette tape my parents used to play for me when I was little and was supposed to go to sleep. Only trouble, the swell at 3:48 would always startle me awake. xD
I had given up hope that I'd ever find what piece it was again, but I'm supposed to play this at a funeral, I was listening to this recording in the background while at work, and the swell starled me just as much as it did when I was a kid. :P
I discovered this just yesterday, my college held an Orchestral concert featuring this song... Such a beautiful song
I remember this from my childhood. It was the closing theme song for a program in the 50's called "I Remember Mama" and it was so touching...
How incredibly beautiful
It's hard to avoid tears come from my eyes...
I played this in high school & it's always stuck with me since, all these years later
Gud, for en vakker musikk
This played at my best friends funeral, it has a special place in my heart and makes me cry like a baby
@moltoallegro19 I also thank you for uploading Grieg's Last Spring. My mother was Norwegian, and I grew up listening to Grieg and Sibelius, but not until I was grown did I discover this piece. I don't know how anyone can listen to this and not be touched.
Griegs Music still can give us good moments, just open Your heart and mind. Breathe.
This is truly stunning. I feel so relaxed when i listen to this.
It's so incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing this gem.
got to play the two elegaic melodies for high school all state a while ago and, without listening prior, not gonna lie I shed a tear after the first read with the full orchestra.
1:33 - 2:00: a masterfully understated tenderness here. It conveys the full breadth of Grieg's humility towards nature and humankind's role in it.
Beautiful. 🎼🎵🎻🌹🌿
This is the most beautiful thing I have heard in a long long time, wonderful, simply wonderful!
1:19-1:27 this is my favourite music sequence ever. EVER.
Would like to thank you for putting up such a pretty piece of music. I listen to it once a day. Thank you
What a beautiful song..
we played it with our orchestra. it was AMAZING! :) we really enjoyed it :)
That piece of music is so,so special to me...it's so beutiful..Thank you for uploading it!!!:)
I like this tempo and interpretation much better than the very slow, super-dramatic one that is currently in fashion, and that is simply personal taste. It's a beautiful, moving melody under every hand and every instrument I've ever heard play it, and in every voice I've ever heard sing it. For all my life, since I was old enough to remember, I've loved it. I will love it forever.
I'm... I'm not crying... ;-;
Så vakkert :) helt utrolig, for et geni!
Just played this for contest, made sweepstakes. almost cried after we played
@ztav23 As a little girl I watched the TV show and thrilled to both "Våren" and the Sarabande from the Holberg Suite, that was used as the opening theme. The music was so well known, presumably, that no reference to the titles or attribution to the composer was deemed necessary back then. At least, I don't recall any ever being made, but my child's mind often wondered about the source of such heavenly melodies and harmonies.
This is an exquisite recording. What a privilege to hear it.
This was the closing theme of "Mama", on CBS Television from 1949-57 about a family of Norwegian heritage who lived in San Francisco in the early 1900s. The series was based on the Broadway play and film "I Remember Mama."
Grieg can get you in the mood you want..Just listen to the spring on piano. Or morning mood..
vakker, vakker, vakker!!!!! Er stolt av å være norsk når jeg hører noe så vakkert :))))
most beautiful classical piece i know.
How come it sounds so pretty
Love it
死を悟った男が最後の春を惜しむ情景を歌った曲ですね。美しい諦観が漂いますね。
I've been studying classical music my whole life and this is one of my very favorites.
Good post Kenny. I can hear and feel what you're saying.
Very beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful
My dad played this on the violin on my grandmother's funeral :')
Great piece.
This puts my mind at ease. power of music....
Grieg the master of all musicians
ある有名の指揮者率いるキッズオケで僕はこの曲を弾いた。
自分がその頃オケ卒業時だったかな、、何年前になるだろう。
尊敬の指揮者に最後プレゼントしたのがこの曲。
演奏が大成功したときは観客含め全員が泣いていた。
こうしてRUclipsできいても良い曲。
The opening progression is amazing.
this was played at my best friends funeral, it was beautiful...
damn that was one year ago man, you've changed. alot. in a good way of course.
i wish you all the best man, don't forget to love yourself and be confident. confidence is humans best weapon. don't be afraid to show off your hard earned work. you show it off to be proud of yourself, not to get attention or praise.
if anyone other than me in the future is reading this, i want you to show appreciation to all of your friends, you never know what or when something could happen.
love your friends and family. unconditionally. forever
Beau et émouvant.
gotta love a bit of grieg :) always there when i need a soft romantic tone :)
@rylisgranny The pleasure is all mine, truly. I uploaded this because I love it so much and I wanted as many people as possible to discover it and appreciate its beauty, and every positive comment about it makes me happy that yet another person is listening and feeling the same way I do when hearing it - the same way Grieg himself probably felt when composing it more than a century ago. You're welcome.
It was in fact used as the closing theme for the radio and TV program "I Remember Mama" in the 1950s
Absolutely beautiful! I have a recording that I like more though, the only reasons being that it's slower (6:40 minutes) and that it sounds a bit aged (the strings have that wonderful shaky tone of the old recordings). This piece would fit so well as the ending theme to the credits of a movie :)
Edvard Grieg most certainly DID know how we're feeling in March, April and even May here in Scandinavia!
Ice's smelting, rivers are getting free to flow... Go all The Four Seasons go!
very soothing
My sister hates this song, but I've always loved it. Chalk it up to cellist vs. violist, I guess.
A message to your sister;
Madam I respectfully ask you to reconsider your opinion about the music at hand! I am certain that you, as a cellist, possses a sprit and depth of mind which appreciates all things beautiful and a knowledge which acclaims this music as the work of a great master. Short in length it may be but if I may be permited to quote the immortal bard, "Never mind the width, feel the quality!".
Thetrackrecords Possibly the best, most respectful argumentative comment I've ever seen on RUclips. Really well-written and poetic, too. Bravo! *claps*
I hope the sister in question got to read it.
all the orchestra instruments are beautiful in their own way. there was a musician who once said that if it wasnt so, then everyone would dump the orchestra and just play one instrument
Playing this for Chamber orchestra concert(:
This was the back round music for I Remember Mama
Elsker dette. Grieg. Våren. Jeg er ingen feinschmecker, men jeg hører romantikken.
Apparently, the sheets of this piece are seen whenever Merlin Prismriver unleashes one of her Spell Cards.
Yeah i agree it draws out the melody more.
Really? Never heard that. Thanky you for teaching me something new.
This piece by Edv. Grieg is balm for the soul. I use it after a stressed day to relax. Instrumental by orchester, or choral. Try finding the vivasandnes' version
I guess when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but this guitar player would love to hear a version of this played on the classical guitar, maybe in a duet or larger guitar ensemble. In fact LAGQ should record this, don't you guys agree? I mean, the piano version of this is lovely too.
Yeah, I understand what you are talking about, and I am pretty sure that it's called "tremolo".
woops! i raed one star by accident :S i meant 5! I love this sooo much! We played it in our chamber orchestra last year-I miss playing it!
I think a guitar version for this would sound wonderful. Please upload one if you can.
3:13 *dies* ...so full and elegiac.
Actually it IS "The Spring", as you say. However the English/Americans use to translate it to "Last Spring" for some reason, don't know why.
@nokiachris81 , Det er vakkert, og du har rett til å være stolt av eders land og sin berømte komponisten. (jeg ikke vet eders språk, så jeg måtte finne en oversettelse program.)
I thing the correct name of the pieces are: "elegiacal pieces" .Is just the absence of an "a". Thanks. Beautifully music.
@sheephops Well it's either this or "House of Fire" by Alice Cooper
Edvard Grieg has my heart. It's with him in his grave.
@iChirnx Most likely, yes.
It is. In my opinion too
Oh, you're actually right. I'll change it right away.
Incidentally, even though having a Scottish great-grandfather makes Grieg one-sixteenth Scottish, since most Scots have Norse ancestry, Grieg was about as Norwegian as anyone else in Norway.
Sure :-)
yeah right
En av de vakreste.
I'm thinking of the sound you get if you use a light bow, moving it just a cm or so...
a nice song
i think it's played a little too fast... but i love this song. i want to cry whenever i play it.
+1 if you see the Score of this in the background of the Prismriver Sisters spellcards...
it is too fast, but very nice. I miss something though. The high notes from the violins played soft, but with a fast moving bow repeating the same tone. If someone can describe it with the correct notation words - please do so..! I miss it especially at 3:23 - we often have have this as a postludium at funerals - I'm norwegian
Don't you mean Op.34, because that's what I saw this piece was.
Where hab i get the notes
I say "thank you" on behalf of the Oslo Camerata and Stephan Barratt-Due.
Beautifully played, but it is a little too fast
dasd282 *3 years later* if you put it at .75x speed it’s closer to what I think it should be
Oh my FUCKING god so FUCKING BEAUTIFUL I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT. FUCK.