Ole Olsen; 3 Pieces for Piano & Orchestra

[Darrel Hoffman]

Posted my rendition of 3 works by this Norwegian composer, which I've organized into a sort of pseudo-concerto.

[tpaloj]

Each of the pieces here does have quite the personal style and charm to them, though I found the last piece a little bit too predictable for my liking. Regardless, thank you for making these works by Olsen available! There are too few recordings of this excellent composer's music out there, so this is very much appreciated.

[Darrel Hoffman]

Thanks.  It was your recent posting of some of his opera work that pushed it up on my to-do list.  (I had them already and would've gotten to them eventually on my own, but saw a familiar name here on the forum so decided to look into them more closely.)  I'm not really into opera, and of course the technology for doing voices isn't quite here yet, but you did a good enough job with it.

As for the Gallop being predictable, well, it is a military march, I suppose that just goes with the territory.  I imagine the last thing you want when you've got a bunch of soldiers marching up and down the square or whatnot is "unpredictable".  It did admittedly make for quick work, as there were several sections that were just literal copy/paste.