Olsen/ Aase - Complete Piano Music AEC Music From the rhapsodic to the

From the rhapsodic to the cryptic and from the joyous to the cautionary

in 1752 he was invited by King Josè I to become maestro di cappella and he also made him Cavalier of the Order of Christ

and also secular songs of love

the King Bees) up to the release of his enormously influential breakthrough record Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Olsen/ Aase - Complete Piano Music AEC Music From the rhapsodic to theNorwegian folksong and dance constitute the very DNA of the music of Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903 84), on both a large and a small scale from Draumkvedet, the 1936 oratorio that was his first major success, to the tiny miniatures that form most of his piano music, recorded here in it's entirety for the first time. The apparent simplicity of much of this material belies the unassuming sophistication of it's construction: many of these pieces, some