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 ...

Grieg is a one-work composer, mostly: there's one symphony, one piano concerto and single piano sonata. There are three violin sonatas, though, pieces which he thought numbered among his best and ...

The last few days of unabated San Diego sunshine have me feeling particularly spring-ish even though we are technically in the dead of winter with spring still a month or so away. However, it did get ...

Grieg's complete Lyric Pieces would fill three discs, but Stephen Hough's recording is all that most of us will ever need; Hough's selection of 27 contains many of the best-known and a fair few ripe ...

Spring is finally bursting out all over, so it’s a good moment to survey the way composers have evoked this most optimistic of seasons. Half of my ten choices hail from France, probably because it was ...

Every week, Classic FM presenter and music expert David Mellor reviews the best new releases and re-issues from the world of classical music. This week, David picks out Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Baroque ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, two Norwegian artists ...

Three pieces of music with a magical and mythical air, conjured up by conductor Lionel Bringuier and The BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Paul Dukas's Sorcerer’s Apprentice - immortalized in the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recordings of Brahms, Haydn, Grieg, Nikolai Kapustin and George Walker are among recent highlights. Frank Dupree, piano; Jakob Krupp, bass; Obi Jenne, ...

Classical music has turned to the stars of sport, media and the theatre in an attempt to use celebrity appeal to propel it into popular culture. Classical music has turned to the stars of sport, media ...