The Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Library of Lincoln Center has been an exciting annual concert venue of L’Amore for the past 10 years. Here we are in 2018 playing an arrangement made for the group of the Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg.

PROGRAM NOTE:

The Holberg Suite was commissioned for the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of the “Moliere of the North”, Norwegian writer Baron Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). Since Holberg was a contemporary of Bach and Handel, Grieg chose to compose his tribute in the form of a French Baroque period suite. He cast five movements in the musical forms of the 18th century, and filled them with the spirit of his own time and style. Grieg called this work “my powdered-wig piece”; it is one of strength, gentility, playfulness, and meditation.