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Edvard Grieg — Morning Mood (Allegretto pas
Album: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op.46 (Karajan - BPO)
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Released: 1876
Length: 4:01
Plays (last 30 days): 2
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I'm now going running through a meadow of corn with my hair and dress flowing in the wind. I hope my wife doesn't mind me taking on of her dresses!!!
Working from home, looking out the window on grey, rainy day, headphones on and this tune comes on. I then start thinking of summer, skipping through the meadows, hair blowing in the wind, butterflies and bees buzzing around my head. I then get a slap from the wife "you bloody daydreaming again" - moment ruined 
 Edweirdo wrote:

I love RP, but occasionally I need a concentrated hit of classical music.  My go-to is Radio Swiss Classic.  No ads, and an excellent mixture of old favourites with more obscure composers. (Apologies to William for advertising it here, although it's hardly a rival!)


Agree, and until or if RP ever has one, I am grateful for the recommendation too.
Good to listen to for a late afternoon nap. 
 junebaby65 wrote:


Leopold!!

One of the best Bugs Bunny cartoons. 
Oh boy, this was used as the soundtrack on a Dutch cassette tape with the story of Robinson Crusoe retold for children. Peer Gynt is forever linked with that tape, I can dream the storyteller's voice out loud while this plays on RP. What a wonderful time machine we have here sometimes ....
Seriously, Robinson watching Friday escape the cannibals to the tune of 'In the hall of the mountain king', man, that music did so much for the story, loved it then love it still some odd 40 years later


 Edweirdo wrote:

I love RP, but occasionally I need a concentrated hit of classical music.  My go-to is Radio Swiss Classic.  No ads, and an excellent mixture of old favourites with more obscure composers. (Apologies to William for advertising it here, although it's hardly a rival!)



Thank You for the info!
 TC1 wrote:


Same.


Oooh Matron !!
Morning Mood, indeed.
 pbouchar wrote:

RP needs a classical channel. 


I love RP, but occasionally I need a concentrated hit of classical music.  My go-to is Radio Swiss Classic.  No ads, and an excellent mixture of old favourites with more obscure composers. (Apologies to William for advertising it here, although it's hardly a rival!)
Every time I hear this it reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon that starts with this playing and they show morning by a lake and then Elmer Fudd and other hunters start blasting away at ducks with shotguns.
This is just so pretty.  Elevated out of my chair.  

Black Keys - harsh transition.
another blissful transition by the sultan of segues from Thinking of a Place…to this lovely ditty. Gracias, Wiliam. 
 zaebb wrote:




"Leopold!"
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

all of my early training in classical music came from Looney Tunes


Yup!
RP needs a classical channel. 
What's not to like
the best thing ? ... came on right after ZZ Top La Grange on My Favorites.  From the jammin' to the sublime.  
 graphicswest2 wrote:

How many listeners know the crazy sexy story of Peer Gynt?  Makes Robert  Plant look tame.   ;-)



i do not, but now i must google!
 zaebb wrote:


leopold!!!
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

all of my early training in classical music came from Looney Tunes



 If you get the opportunity, go see Bugs Bunny at the Symphony. They play Warmer Bros cartoons while a full symphony plays along. Amazing.
Not the same piece, but always reminds me of 'Bambi Meets Godzilla'.

Yes, I have issues.
c.
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

all of my early training in classical music came from Looney Tunes


100% agree.....
Perfect.  Thank you Edvard!  My parents had this album in their very eclectic collection.  Was played often.  Great way to grow up.
Wonderful 
GREAT TUNE!!  Bugs Bunny introduced me to it, when I was a little  kid.  Still great!  Thanx RP!   
 ziakut wrote:

Please excuse my adolescent brain and this obtuse comment on this piece of beautiful music...but my initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. It made me chuckle a bit. Had to share. Sorry, Edvard!



Same.
I this was background music for a Three Stooges short where Curly is flicking  grapes in the mouths of unsuspecting patrons of the opera. The opera. The opera.  
First time I've ever heard anything from Peer Gynt on RP - Heaven - the whole suite is wonderful. That Mountain King  is a pretty 'stirring' chap 

I once had a bad case of  Allegretto.

But I found some suave that  took care of it. 
This compels me to dance around the May pole

Alas, its not May

Hence...no May pole  

How does one banish such misfortune? 
How many listeners know the crazy sexy story of Peer Gynt?  Makes Robert  Plant look tame.   ;-)
Fantastic
Poor Edward G Robinson
 ziakut wrote:

Please excuse my adolescent brain and this obtuse comment on this piece of beautiful music...but my initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. It made me chuckle a bit. Had to share. Sorry, Edvard!



Morning Mood / Wood - What is the difference?
Currently watching a storm form over a bay and this little ditty comes on the wireless...
Merry Melodies / Bugs Bunny introduced me to classical music when I was a small child. I am 67yrs old. ...They did a good job!   
 DW4554 wrote:


Bill & Rebecca, it is time.  I can assist with curating if you like.  I will suggest 10 arias that are worthy of rave reviews.  Just pick a couple.  Trust me.  


I would love anything from the Magic Flute
 harrysun wrote:
{#Bounce} carefully selected and mixed by two real human beings!

On my "Favorites" list this lovely piece followed after the Beatles from their White Album     "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"  
SUPERB!!!
 zaebb wrote:

Too Funny!!
To listen to that while working is just pure heaven!! 10 all day long
 DW4554 wrote:


Bill & Rebecca, it is time.  I can assist with curating if you like.  I will suggest 10 arias that are worthy of rave reviews.  Just pick a couple.  Trust me.  



I hope your list includes accessible works like The Flower Duet from Lakme and O Silver Moon from Rusalka :)
 DW4554 wrote:

More please Bill & Rebecca.  I challenge you to find one opera aria other than Nessun Dorma that you might consider playing. 

I love most everything you do.  Thank you.



Bill & Rebecca, it is time.  I can assist with curating if you like.  I will suggest 10 arias that are worthy of rave reviews.  Just pick a couple.  Trust me.  
i know this music from nina paley's great film ' thank you for not breeding

 zaebb wrote:



Yes just a little bit more 
It is so wonderful that you do this:  Jethro Tull followed by Grieg's Morning Mood.  These classical bits, as well as the great songs from the swing era, dropped into the mix surprizes us and makes us all realize that there is wonderful music that stirs the heart from every generation since the beginning of time.  One of the great things about RP is the fact that if you don't like this song, it will soon be over and you get something different.  That keeps one listening, but the clever effect is that the listener is won over by the middle of the track, begins to get interested in the chords and musicianship and begins to appreciate the strange track inserted into the regular mix. That person would have never clicked on that track or heard it selected by an algorithm anywhere else.   You are doing good work.  Keep it up.
The 2021 wildfire season is wrapping up with a decent rain.  Went for a hike in the Sage brush steppe behind the house for the first time in 6 weeks.  (!)

It feels like an optimistic morning.
isn't this the soundtrack to 'Bambi vs. Godzilla' ?
Such a wonderfully beautiful piece. Introduced to it by a woman I met while traveling around Europe on a Eurrail pass in late 70’s - she was from Hamburg
 LizK wrote:

Curiously, Grieg did not like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" , another part of this symphony, and one of his most celebrated works.  



"The worst sort of Norwegian bombast" or some such was his later description of it.
 Ihatethissong wrote:


I feel sorry for the person who found this meme objectionable.


I find all animated gifs objectionable.  I wish Bill would ban 'em!
Bambi vs Godzilla
(Yorkshire joke)
"I calls me dog Grieg"
"Why?" "
"Coz every time it comes in, 1st thing it does is pee aginst suite"
Bella música. Te transporta
Liking the classical music selections that show up on RP.  The timing is always right and sometimes really needed.
Perfect sunrise tune.
I love it when you throw in some Big Orchestral stuff!  
Truly one of the greatest of all time!
 jukes1 wrote:

Happened to me too. Made 14-year-old me smile inside.

(and made me immediately go and watch this which also makes 14-year-old me smile)
 

LoL thanks for the link - great!
 ziakut wrote:
My initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. It made me chuckle a bit. Had to share. Sorry, Edvard!
 
Morning Wo0d is a Strong Mood
 studioDEC wrote:
That Edvard Grieg has the Mark Twain look goin' on


au contraire mon frère



 Ihatethissong wrote:


I feel sorry for the person who found this meme objectionable.
 
People, not person 
 Kelvinclifford wrote:
A Yorkshire guy said "I calls me dog Grieg coz all it does when it comes in is pee agin suite"
 Good to know someone else in the UK is still able to get this fantastic station  ...Pee agin indeed!  More classical classics please RP

A Yorkshire guy said "I calls me dog Grieg coz all it does when it comes in is pee agin t suite"
 LizK wrote:
Curiously, Grieg did not like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" , another part of this symphony, and one of his most celebrated works.  
 
A pedant writes - it's not a symphony, it's a suite.
 rgio wrote:
I think the release date is a bit premature..... the first recording ever was in 1877 by Edison.
 

Your comment suggests you think no one ever heard it previous to its being recorded. Odd premise.
So nice.This is why I love RP. 
I find this really fitting right now, as I just woke up from my 30 minute lunch nap. Living one mile from the office definitely has its perks 
More please Bill & Rebecca.  I challenge you to find one opera aria other than Nessun Dorma that you might consider playing. 

I love most everything you do.  Thank you.
Curiously, Grieg did not like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" , another part of this symphony, and one of his most celebrated works.  
Love this. I believe it was the soundtrack to Bambi versus Godzilla! A classic in cinema. 😉
 rgio wrote:

Understood...I was being sarcastical.
 
Roger that, though still would be nice to have a recorded date listed on these older pieces, especially ones (like this one) that are quite excellent sounding.  LLRP!!
 ziakut wrote:
Please excuse my adolescent brain and this obtuse comment on this piece of beautiful music...but my initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. It made me chuckle a bit. Had to share. Sorry, Edvard!
 
Happened to me too. Made 14-year-old me smile inside.

(and made me immediately go and watch this which also makes 14-year-old me smile)
 birdman42 wrote:
Bill and Rebecca, can you please play this every morning at about 7:30 Eastern time?
 
...and the Day begins...
yes...
Bill and Rebecca, can you please play this every morning at about 7:30 Eastern time?
Image result for elmer fudd conductor gif

Wisten to the wivmic withum of the woodwinds as it wolls awound and awound..... and it comes out here.....
reminds me of this
My girlfriend and I visited Grieg's home, Troldhaugen, in Bergen, Norway a couple years ago. It was wonderful.
 lizardking wrote:

To be fair, RP does show the 'released' date vs. 'recorded' date - though I've often wondered if BillG could figure out how to list the composed date AND recorded date on these classical classics.  Long Live RP!!
 
Understood...I was being sarcastical.
That Edvard Grieg has the Mark Twain look goin' on
Only on Radio Paradise. Thank you for the terrific mix of music.
Didn’t Bugs Bunny dig this tune I do
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

all of my early training in classical music came from Looney Tunes
 
I met Chuck Jones once and told him the same.
 rgio wrote:
I think the release date is a bit premature..... the first recording ever was in 1877 by Edison.
 
To be fair, RP does show the 'released' date vs. 'recorded' date - though I've often wondered if BillG could figure out how to list the composed date AND recorded date on these classical classics.  Long Live RP!!
 zaebb wrote:
 

Leopold!!
I think the release date is a bit premature..... the first recording ever was in 1877 by Edison.
 zaebb wrote:
 
Figaro!
Came out on CD a few years later.  

mschnagl wrote:
Released: 1876
 

 zaebb wrote:
 
all of my early training in classical music came from Looney Tunes
always makes me think of Don Pardo, "Good morning, sleepyheads!"
RP knows the meaning of mixing it up.
That first time hearing this (amongst others) outside of a cartoon soundtrack and understanding that it came first.
peggle
 chuck.b.meyers wrote:
Awesome...especially after paying that Regina Spektor penance
 Ah, release.

 ziakut wrote:
Please excuse my adolescent brain and this obtuse comment on this piece of beautiful music...but my initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. 
 

I just did a double-take myself, then had to search the comments to see if anyone was bold enough to admit this... 
 lizardking wrote:
BillG paired this with Wish You Were Here this time, and it is pure brilliance as per usual!
 

Ah, he just did this transition again. :)
Awesome...especially after paying that Regina Spektor penance
 ziakut wrote:
Please excuse my adolescent brain and this obtuse comment on this piece of beautiful music...but my initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. It made me chuckle a bit. Had to share. Sorry, Edvard!
 
HA! Kind of fits.
Perfect for a Friday morning - so serene, so calm.  Takes me back to the early 1960s when our headmaster would play this as were marched into morning assembly. Thanks B&R
Released: 1876
Please excuse my adolescent brain and this obtuse comment on this piece of beautiful music...but my initial glance saw the title as Morning Wood...not Mood. It made me chuckle a bit. Had to share. Sorry, Edvard!
BillG paired this with Wish You Were Here this time, and it is pure brilliance as per usual!
 edvj wrote:
Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer Gynt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gww9_S4PNV0


 
AWESOME!
This is the version in my collection--sublime.
what an amazing interlude in the mornings music
Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer Gynt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gww9_S4PNV0

 Hannio wrote:
westslope wrote:
Gorgeous.  Anybody here ever hike the Hardangervidda Plateau?


You mean the Iron Butterfly song with the drum solo?

 

LOL! No.  But I did see Iron Butterfly in Ottawa in the early 1970s and I seem to recall that the band played in a gadda da vida. 

 


where is that  wascally wabbit?
Exquisite.
 Good morning!

Skydog wrote:
around 8:30am in India right now, good morning folks

 


 jmattv13251 wrote:
Peer Gynt reminds me of my Dad.  We had old records that were 3 times as thick as modern vinyl ones.  From the 40's maybe.  They never wore out.  From my earliest days when I could operate our Zenith monstrosity tv/radio/player I would play the Peer Gynt suite almost every day.  What wondrous music and thoughts it brings to me now at 68 years old.  How wonderful of RP to play that for all to hear.

 
Same here.  :)
Peer Gynt reminds me of my Dad.  We had old records that were 3 times as thick as modern vinyl ones.  From the 40's maybe.  They never wore out.  From my earliest days when I could operate our Zenith monstrosity tv/radio/player I would play the Peer Gynt suite almost every day.  What wondrous music and thoughts it brings to me now at 68 years old.  How wonderful of RP to play that for all to hear.
{#Clap}

As others have stated here and on other classical gems BillG plays, it's really nice to hear pieces like this thrown in the mix...and then waiting to hear what the segue master plays next...today he followed this up with Sycamore Feeling by Trenemøller.  As per usual, it's a wonderful fit and completely different than the classical piece.

As a kid I took piano lessons, and while I somewhat enjoyed the piano, I was more hooked on music than playing.  My dad's cousin, who is a pretty good piano player and brother of a conductor, gave me a book of classical masterpieces, which upon opening was like "uh...no...I don't think I can play that..." and I started playing a few of the pieces at my lessons.  I got pretty good at this piece, and even better at playing Grieg's other well known piece; Hall of the Mountain King.  The other one I mastered was The Wild Horseman by Robert Schumann.  I can (probably) still play some of these fairly well....in fact, years ago I played a few of these pieces at a house party; who knew playing the piano would ever help me score with girls?! 


Remind me of a beautiful movie... And I cann't remembert which on... 
around 8:30am in India right now, good morning folks