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, ...

In his own country, in his lifetime, Edvard Grieg struggled for recognition. Even though he had studied with the foremost Nordic composer of the previous generation — the Danish master Niels Gade — ...

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 ...

Many a TV advertisement (or, dare we say it, telephone on-hold service) has used the opening movement, Morning from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1 to create a musical mood. The fourth movement depicting ...

When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1942, the team of Robert Wright and George Forrest were completing a seven-year contract as staff composer-lyricists at MGM. At the studio, the team had had occasion to fashion new lyrics to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a scene in Jean Cocteau’s 1949 Orphée where the hero dons special gloves and walks through his bedroom ...