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 ...

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) wrote his five-act allegorical drama Peer Gynt in 1867 while living in Italy. It tells the story of the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant anti-hero.

Grieg's music drew on the Norwegian folk tunes of his homeland. He wrote many songs and piano miniatures. He was a leading composer of the Romantic era and brought the music of Norway to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Troldhaugen, or Troll Hill, is the name Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) gave to his summer house, based on local children’s ...

Aker BP expects to reduce CO2 emissions from Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen production platforms by 200,000 tpy now that the two North Sea Utsira High area platforms are operated with electric power from ...

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, ...