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 ...

Bedrich Smetana Edvard Grieg The Moldau Peer Gynt Suite Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor Libor Pesek Bedrich Smetana The Moldau Source of the Moldau Forest Hunt ...

The compositions of 19th-century Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg won't ring too many bells with today's pop fans. But their parents might recognize bits of the Grieg repertoire in songs that were ...

We take a trip into the old Scandinavia with a piece called "From Holberg's Time" by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). From a concert in Victoria, Texas, Craig Hella Johnson conducts the Victoria Bach ...

Every so often we welcome a Young Artist in Residence to the Performance Today studios for a week of live performances. Violinist Colin Jacobsen will be joining us in the role of Young Artist the week ...

Not long before his death on Sept. 4, 1907, Edvard Grieg was rowing near Troldhaugen, his beloved home. He gazed up at the high cliff and said, “Here I would like to rest.” The composer was granted ...

Donald Macleod explores the key influences and music of Edvard Greig. Donald Macleod looks at the people and places that had a significant impact on Edvard Grieg’s life and work, meeting Norwegian ...

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 ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano Edvard Grieg, Composer Andreas Brantelid, Cello Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano Intermezzo Edvard Grieg, Composer Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano Andreas Brantelid, Cello Sonata ...

Donald Macleod explores Grieg's music through the places from which he took inspiration. On 9th September 1907, it’s estimated that some forty to fifty thousand people turned out to pay their respects ...