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The Lyric Suite enshrines the first four numbers of the keyboard original, slightly reordered. Anton Seidl, noted Wagnerian, orchestrated three of them. Grieg was impressed, but decided to do better and add 'Shepherd's Boy' as a starter. We know all about trolls and their music from Peer Gynt. In Shetland we call them trows, the wee folk who may be helpful or otherwise when they emerge from their subterranean lairs. The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Ole Kristian Ruud clearly relishes portraying the dwarfs in marching order [listen -- track 12, 0:01-1:01]. Indeed the whole disc has an idiomatic rightness fully meriting its award. Grieg used to be wildly popular here; this music goes some way to explain why.

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