“Classic” can be so refreshingly new! Lively, sparkling, full of joie de vivre, playfulness and experimentation, but also sensitive, thoughtful and with impressive authenticity. Edvard Grieg's orchestral work for strings From Holberg's Time - Suite in the Old Style is so artistically spread and plucked in an unprecedented interpretation that one does not have the impression for a second that one is listening to old or well-known music. Everything sounds new and up-to-date and yet Grieg's idea of Holberg's time is within reach. The bonus track, Johannes
Brahms' song, Die Meere, offers an equally unique listening experience, in which a guitar and cellos take equal part in the vocals to the basses of a ten-string guitar.
The extremely original cast of the Mirror Strings (two guitars and two cellos) makes you sit up and take notice. Their skilful and transparent arrangements offer the four instrumental virtuosos space to conduct a dynamic, musical dialogue with each other. Finally, the listener is carried away by the energetic, musical play of these four young interpreters and seduces him on a short but exquisite journey of sound.
1. Grieg: From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: I. Prelude
2. Grieg: From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: II. Sarabande
3. Grieg: From Holberg's Time, op. 40: III. gavotte
4. Grieg: From Holberg's Time, op. 40: IV. Air
5. Grieg: From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: V. Rigaudon
6. Brahms: The Seas
