Going with your gut isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. If one of the composers next up at the symphony had followed his first reaction to a request for music, the world would have lost some great ...

Decades ago in a K-TEL informercial, a tweedy British pitchman assured us that a highbrow record collection was "all the classical music your family will ever need." Swirling around David Schweizer's ...

Join CPR Classical on July 18 and 19 at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder for the Colorado Music Festival’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2 and a special narrated version of Edvard ...

What child, having once heard the gruff bassoons barking out the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, could ever forget the menacing march of the troll ...

I’ve never seen a stage so packed with performing talent! Last night, at Peer Gynt, the stage at the Stifel was chock-a-block with the full St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the SLSO Chorus—plus ten ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Louis Langrée and the ...

Barclay’s ‘concert-theater’ approach condensed Ibsen’s play to around 80 minutes, providing a rare opportunity to hear ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ in dramatic context Grieg’s ...

Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable ...

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 ...

(L-R) Andrew Love as a Troll, Shunté Lofton as Peer Gynt, Alli Villines as a Troll, and Faith Fossett as a Trol Credit: Photo by Pin Lim/Forrest Photography Classical Theatre Company has answered a ...

Music historian Leah Broad explores how, 150 years after the premiere, Henrik Ibsen’s play and Edvard Grieg’s incidental music have stood the test of time. Show more 150 years since Henrik Ibsen’s ...

There is no way in hell to stage "Peer Gynt" in a way that would make Ibsen's monumental epic drama accessible to anyone who didn't grow up on the fabulous legend of this Norwegian folk hero. But ...