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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This bustling small city surrounded by mountains and fjords, once a center of international trade and the hub of Norway’s rich cultural life, was the birthplace of such luminaries as the dramatist ...

Guest conductor Zubin Mehta leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16, with Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. This free outdoor concert, recorded in May 2015, ...

The OKM Music Festival is tuning up for its 41st season, bringing a weekend of world-class performances and cultural celebration to Bartlesville and Tulsa from June 6 through 8. This year’s festival ...

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 ...

These hills are alive with the sound of music. The strains were once those of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, and, now, they are those of one of his descendants, Alexander Grieg. Alexander and his ...

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, ...