Going with your gut isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. If one of the composers next up at the symphony had followed his first reaction to a request for music, the world would have lost some great ...
"Like father, like son," they say. Here we find Paavo Jarvi tackling Grieg's incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, a work his father, Neeme, famously recorded for Deutsche Grammophon 18 years ago.
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 ...
Considering how simple and obvious an idea it is, it’s puzzling that there have been so relatively few really successful marriages of orchestral music with the spoken word. Of the perhaps several ...
The upcoming production of Peer Gynt is more than just a reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s epic. Adapted by British playwright Brad Birch, directed by Chris Gatt and starring Joseph Zammit alongside an ...
Periodically, it's a good thing for an organization like the San Francisco Symphony to try something daring and different, something off the path of its usual offerings. If nothing else, this serves ...
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.
Peer Gynt Malmö Chamber Choir Malmö Symphony Orchestra Edvard Grieg, Composer Bjarte Engeset, Conductor Before a southern convent (Foran sydens kloster) Edvard Grieg, Composer Malmö Symphony Orchestra ...
What child, having once heard the gruff bassoons barking out the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, could ever forget the menacing march of the troll ...
The Berliner Ensemble was for decades associated intimately with the work of Bertolt Brecht. It's not the sort of company you'd expect to work a soda-siphon gag into a production. Still less when the ...
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