Grieg's Ballade in G Minor Op. 24 on Disc

Update: 2025-08-28

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For this episode of The Piano Maven, Jed Distler discusses selected recordings of Edvard Grieg’s Ballade in G Minor Op. 24. Here are links to most of the cited performances:

Leopold Godowsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enPP00uLYeQ

Eileen Joyce - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX4MB8rKv08

Arthur Rubinstein - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mggEbCn4mbk

Richard Farrell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0TkGUlu2M&t=856s

Aldo Ciccolini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7-g3JZ6fPs

Jorge Bolet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILXOjgCU4sQ (note, this performance is from London 1987, and is not cited in the episode, yet comes from the same period as the 1987 Amsterdam recording issued by Marston)

Robert Riefling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wscw6bsj9cQ

Leif Ove Andsnes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOtIV5ErxL4

Peter Jablonski - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV-TRMS7pHE&t=1163s

Eva Knardahl (BIS) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdOG40uw50&t=377s

Eva Knardahl (Simax) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdOG40uw50&t=377s

Einar Steen-Nokleberg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQttvvCOfI

Antonio Pompa-Baldi - https://open.spotify.com/track/26OnOoWfQnAXfeZ9H2zCIu

Håkon Austbø - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQWL9lc5cOc