Baekken (Brooklet), lyric piece for piano, Op. 62/4
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Baekken (Brooklet), lyric piece for piano, Op. 62/4
- Date: 1893 -1895
- Composer: Edvard Grieg
- Period: Romantic (1820-1869)
Review
Grieg's best-known and most substantial body of solo piano works came in the ten books of Lyric Pieces. They contain 66 works, and the Op. 62 set houses six of them. Its fourth entry here, The Brooklet, is brief, lasting about two minutes, a quite typical length for most of the Lyric Pieces. It is also typical in its almost instant ability to invoke pastoral images. Here, the scene that comes to mind is one of water splashing and swirling under sunny country skies. This is hardly the first piece by Grieg that could qualify as an Impressionist-like work -- both he and Liszt composed music in this vein before Debussy actually established Impressionism. The Brooklet opens with a lively theme whose energy comes in short bursts, its music swirling and tossing gently, its mood playful but agitated. Might Grieg be suggesting the presence of the mischievous Trolls here, the mythical Norwegian creatures depicted in other Lyric Pieces, like the March of the Trolls (Op. 54/3)? In any event, The Brooklet's music shimmers as it rises on the keyboard and then gently falls. It ascends and falls again, splashing and swirling with notes filled with fun and fantasy. ~ Robert Cummings, RoviAlbums with Complete Performances of the Work
Albums with Excerpt Performances of the Work
| Title | Date |
| Panorama: Edvard Grieg | 2000 |
| Badz Wiesiola Panno Czysta | |
| Baekken (The Brook), Op 8/2 |
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