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.
Almost anyone with the temerity to mount a new version of "Peer Gynt" Henrik Ibsen's (or Edvard Grieg's, or Ibsen's-plus-Grieg's) immense, all-over-the-map epic drama with music has to make major changes from the original 1876 production.