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Norwegian folksong and -dance constitute the very DNA of the music of Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903-84), on both a large and a small scale - from Draumkvedet, the 1936 oratorio that was his first major success, to the tiny miniatures that form most of his piano music, recorded here in it's entirety for the first time. The apparent simplicity of much of this material belies the unassuming sophistication of it's construction many of these pieces, some barely a minute long, seem - to adapt William Blake - to contain the world in a grain of sand. Album Tracks 1. Vesle fivrel (Little Butterfly) 2. Frå Telemark. Suite over norske folkevisur No. 1, Op. 31~No. 1 3. Air 4. Frå Telemark. Suite over norske folkevisur No. 2, Op. 31~No. 2 5. Tre små Klaverstykker (Three Small Piano Pieces)~No. 1. Menuett 6. Tre små Klaverstykker (Three Small Piano Pieces)~No. 2. Aftensang (Evening Song) 7. Tre små Klaverstykker (Three Small Piano Pieces)~No. 3. Gavotte 8. Leitom Suite, Op. 33~No. 1. Ved Gamle-kyrkja (By the Old Church) 9. Leitom Suite, Op. 33~No. 2. Når jola Kjem (When Christmas comes) 10. Leitom Suite, Op. 33~No. 3. Reinblom (Glacier Crowfoot) 11. Leitom Suite, Op. 33~No. 4. Sorpero-leiken (The Sorpero Dance) 12. Leitom Suite, Op. 33~No. 5. Snøkledd skog (Snow-clad Forest) 13. Leitom Suite, Op. 33~No. 6. 'Leitom'n' (halling) (The Leitom) 14. Seks gamle bygdevisur frå Lom, Op. 2 (Six Old Village Songs from Lom)~[Excerpt] 15. Andante funebre 16. Norske folkevisur fra Gudbrandsdalen~No. 1. Langen Lasse (Big Baby Larry) 17. Norske folkevisur fra Gudbrandsdalen~No. 2. Låvgrisen (The Prize Pig) 18. Norske folkevisur fra Gudbrandsdalen~No. 3. Kari med huva (Kari's Ugly Cap) 19. Norske folkevisur fra Gudbrandsdalen~No. 4. Pisi og fugeln (Pussy and the Tom-tit) 20. Norske folkevisur fra Gudbrandsdalen~No. 5. Det va' tvæ syst (The Two Sisters)
