Soundtracks:
Love from a Stranger
Raising Cain
Needful Things
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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Opus 46) & No. 2 (Opus
55)
 Grieg
wrote the suites for the play "Peer Gynt", by Norwegian poet
and playwright Henrik Ibsen ("A Doll's House" and "An Enemy
of the People" are two of his other well-known plays). The suites
are set not by the stage order of the play, or by the plot, because Grieg
wanted to design his music according to purely musical principles.
The story of "Peer Gynt" does not take place in the landscapes
of Norway, as listeners who know Grieg and his origins might imagine. The
story actually takes place in Morocco, Northern Africa, during the journeys
of Norwegian hero Peer Gynt's, and only in the end of the second suite
does Peer return to his loving Solveig.
The order of the suites' movements is:
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