– Norwegian music in the spotlight

Conductor: Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen
Soloist, violin & Hardanger fiddle: Ragnhild Hemsing

Program
Ørjan Matre: Lyric pieces (2019)
Edvard Grieg: From Peer Gynt
Johan Svendsen: Symphony No. 1

About the concert
This evening we will fill it with Norwegian musical treats picked from the top shelf served by soloist Ragnhild Hemsing, conductor Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen and a festive TSO.

We open with excerpts from Ørjan Matre's playful Lyric Pieces, in which he has interpreted and reflected on some of Grieg's lyrical pieces for piano and given them a new tonality for orchestra.

Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt is almost a national treasure. In her work to revitalize the Hardanger fiddle and bring it into Norwegian orchestral music, Ragnhild Hemsing has put her folk musical touch on the most famous pieces from here in Tormod Tvete Vik's arrangements. A project that has garnered both national and international interest and recognition.

Johan Svendsen's Symphony No. 1 was described by Grieg as "The most exuberant genius, the handsomest national note and a truly excellent way to treat the orchestra", and the symphony is also both fresh, colorful and lyrical.

Grieg & Svendsen