With his "Lyric Pieces", Edvard Grieg kept a kind of poetic piano diary: between 1867 and 1901, he composed 66 short character pieces, which were published in ten booklets. Pieces such as "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen", "March of the Dwarfs" and "To Spring" are among Grieg's best-known works. In addition to these rather virtuoso pieces, however, there are also numerous simpler dances and melodies that can be mastered and successfully performed by piano students at a very early age. The Israeli-American pianist Daniel Gortler has selected his personal 21 favourites from the "Lyric Pieces" for his debut album on Prospero Classical.