REMAKE: Grieg: Hjemmet ("In my native country"), op 43 no 3
Channel: August Linnman
Date: 04/07/2011

I dedicate this to my Japanese youtube friend eijiota1205! With thanks for inspiration! It is a great pleasure to find musicians on the other side of the world willing to work with our common music treasures. 

An attempt to optimize audio quality on my last clip. I have now returned to more simple MPEG video encoding, but squeezed in a 256 kbit/s MP3 audio stream. I think sound is more important than video for this kind of music work so I will probably settle with this for future clips. 

Great fun to do this kind of work!

From Lyrical Pieces
First of all: The Norwegian title for this is "(I) Hjemmet" which translates to "at home" or "home". The translations to english and french is "In my native country" etc.. And in german "In der Heimat". There are actually three possible interpretations you could make: 
1) "At home", meaning in your tranquil house, resting after a hard time touring the world as a concert pianist.. (?)
2) "In your native place", i.e the surroundings where you were born (German "Heimat" is almost the same word). 
3) "In your native country", in this case Norway.

So which one of these three is right? I would go for 1 or 2, since I guess Grieg is depicting his home and its surroundings.. The town Bergen and its neighbourhood. 

I selected a tempo around 90-95, much higher than noted in some editions. But I am rather convinced that this is a wise choice. 

Played and recorded by August Linnman 2011-07-03
Yamaha GT2+Pianoteq 3.6
Virtual mics have been placed in an "ambient" configuration, creating a hall-like sound picture.