When asked to write music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, Grieg thought he was facing an impossible challenge. But, as Terry ...

After surfacing from her deep and much-acclaimed immersion in the music of Czech composer Leos Janacek a couple of years ago, the British pianist Ivana Gavric embarked on a new journey, this one into ...

With Scotland finding its way on to our news pages for reasons far beyond the scope of these musings, let's acknowledge other maritime connections, this time in the musical sphere. Like Rockall, ...

Celebrate Norway’s music, family fun, and top performers June 6–8 at the 2025 OKM Music Festival in Bartlesville and Tulsa. BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - The OKM Music Festival is tuning up for its 41st ...

January 12, 2018 • Watch the young Russian musician, who The Times of London calls "the most astounding pianist of our age," play a smart, Chopin-focused concert on a grand piano, precisely wedged ...

This fascinating album shows that the vocally and physically imposing Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, as she approaches her 35th birthday next month, is not prepared to be typecast as a Wagner ...

This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg ...

Grieg’s music is Norway in just the same way that Elgar and Vaughan Williams are England. It is full of the idioms of Norwegian folk music synthesised with the German Romantic tradition. Like Chopin, ...