Greig considered his Album For Male Voices the most important of his choral compositions - and well he might: for not only does it contain some of his flights of purest beauty, not only does it embody the very essence of his harmonic originality, but, furthermore, it proved epoch-making, and of much influence upon other composers, in that it showed the applicability of post-Wagerian choral writing. Based on Norwegian folk songs with English text. |
