"In order to win, you have to spend, " commented Kei Grieg Toyomasu, Director of Marketing, Opera Software.

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The famous suites take Grieg's music completely out of its context, and turn his responses to a mad, manic play into subscription-series bonbons.

WSJ: "Peer" Pressure | Peer Gynt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | By David Littlejohn

For "Peer Gynt, " he selected 15 of Grieg's 26 original musical numbers only five from the easy-listening, almost-too-popular "Peer Gynt" suites Grieg extracted from the original in 1888 and 1891.

WSJ: "Peer" Pressure | Peer Gynt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | By David Littlejohn