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 ...
Every country has its token composer: Finland has Sibelius, Poland has Chopin, the U.S. has Copland, and Norway has Edvard Grieg. Grieg cultivated a love of his country's folk idioms, and some of his ...
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, ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, two Norwegian artists ...
Soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes come together to record a delicious selection of Edvard Grieg's songs. Full of colour and shade, the album presents the breath of Grieg's writing for ...
Many a European country has a "national composer" whose music is enmeshed in its cultural identity. For Norwegians, that's Edvard Grieg, best known for his flamboyant Piano Concerto and evocative ...
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 ...
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 ...
Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...