Arnold Bax - Hardanger

Most of Bax's two piano music was written in the late 1920s for the husband and wife piano duet team of Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson. Dated May 1927, 'Hardanger', a short encore piece, was first performed by them in February 1929. Bax writes 'with acknowledgements to Grieg' on the score, and in one letter refers to it as his piece of Grieg. In it Bax emulates the style of Grieg's folk-style piano music, the title referring to the area around Bergen where Grieg had lived, and the wild country of the Hardanger-Vidde.
(Lewis Foreman)
Composed in 1927.
pf: Ashley Wass
pf: Martin Roscoe
original audio: • Hardanger

[@VictorDMusic]

I can hear the Grieg influence, including a few direct quotes. Fun piece!

[@mrtchaikovsky]

Quotes such as?

[@mrtchaikovsky]

Sounds like Grainger to me.

[@GarciaAlisson]

Am I the only one catching a lot of Petrushka from this?