REACTIVATING THE GRIEG LEGACY
The Grieg Year 2007 is over, and we have talked with director Ragna Sofie Grung Moe about the year’s highlights and challenges. “Whether or not we have succeeded is up to others to decide, but judging from debates, discussions and artistic contributions we certainly know that the concept has inspired deeply and broadly! That we should encounter such enthusiasm was something we could not foresee, but we are very happy for it. This is about what Grieg himself stands for, the relevance of his heritage today – and hopefully in the years to come,” says Grung Moe in this interview.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
We wish all friends of Grieg a merry christmas! From this link you will find our christmas greetings. 		   
BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
From January 2008, you will find the Grieg 07 webpages at the Bergen Public Library.
NORWEGIAN DANCES OP. 35 NO. 1
We wish you all a sparkling, happy new year with Work of the Week's very last sound file: No. 1 "Allegro marcato" from Norwegian Dances op. 35, which Grieg wrote in Hardanger during the summer of 1881. This work for two pianos is based on folk melodies collected by Ludvig M. Lindeman. Geir Botnen and Jens Harald Bratlie plays, and their CD is available in Simax Classics' webshop.
Time and place: GRIEG`S EXPRESSION ON CRITICS

Edvard Grieg gives us here his opinion on the critics. After his very last concert in Kiel April 27, 1907, which was a great sucsess, he sent the following words to The Kieler Musikverein.

 


27.11.07 On November 29. a concert at London's Wigmore Hall culminates the Grieg Society's commemorations of the centenary of Grieg's death.

09.11.07 The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tours the US in November. Their concert in Carnegie Hall in New York, was characterized in good terms by the New York Times, describing how the musicians "played wih an unusual solidity and warmth, and produced a breadth of color that gave it a distinctive sonic thumbprint".

02.11.07 In this article, Bjarne Kvinnsland's presents some of his thoughts regarding his composition for The Sound of Norwegian Spring.

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