Grieg’s Best Duets – Piano – Weekley/Arganbright

Waltz Caprice, Op. 37, No. 2 edited by edited by Weekley & Arganbright, begins with a wonderfully lilting and syncopated theme. Kathleen Dale writes, “The trio [middle] section is composed of…slender material: an 8-bar phrase of two figures, one a block of reiterated chords, the other the continuous alternation of a melody note with the [half-step] below. The phrase is repeated nine times. Far from being monotonous, the effect is magical…[there is a] feeling of suspense as to where the next modulation will lead…”