
This new release completes BIS’ survey of the four suites of Hardanger folk tunes that are rapidly establishing Geirr Tveitt as one of Norway’s greatest
Some of Grieg’s most charming music appears in this ably executed collection, including the much-underrated Symphonic Dances, the composer’s largest symphonic work. Heaven knows that
The Hardanger fiddle resembles its ancestor the viola d’amore in that it has a course of resonating strings under the fingerboard, and this gives the
The idiom on display here stands squarely in the neo-classical tradition, a sort of Italianate Poulenc or Kurt Weill (from the period of the Second
Norway’s Harald Saeverud, who died in 1992 at the ripe old age of 95, was a distinctive voice in contemporary music. His (comparatively) early Cello
Here, for the first time since Wynn Morris’ pioneering recording, is the original, five-movement tone poem version of what later became Mahler’s First Symphony. The