If familiarity breeds contempt, then the Grieg "Piano Concerto in A Minor" should be positively despised. But oddly, the work is far more loved than loathed. It's been a staple in the classical ...

In recent months, the Spokane Symphony and its generous supporters have brought some remarkable pianists to join them on the stage of the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. Archie Chen, a Spokane ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Nikolai Lugansky Edvard Grieg, Composer Kent Nagano, Conductor Berlin German Symphony Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Nikolai Lugansky Kent Nagano, ...

How, you wonder, would Grieg feel about the fact that many of us associate this particular piece of music with Morecambe and Wise? Eric’s version of the piece, conducted by André ‘Andrew Preview’ ...

When he was 15, Grieg heard Clara Schumann play her husband’s piano concerto, and his own early piano music is highly influenced by Schumann and, to a certain degree, also Mendelssohn. Grieg wrote his ...

This is a puzzling set. In 1903 in Paris Edvard Grieg made a set of wax-cylinder recordings of his own piano music – some of the Lyric Pieces, two movements of his E minor sonata – which remain ...

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 ...

Neither the Grieg Concerto nor Prokofiev’s Third is exactly a stranger to the catalogue, but Nikolai Lugansky’s collaboration here with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester refreshes, rejuvenates and, in ...

There are those perfectly content with Leif Ove Andsnes' 1990 account of the Grieg Piano Concerto; a veritable Norwegian trifecta of composer, soloist and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The latest ...

Although she is a French citizen, Shani Diluka’s DNA is 100% Sri Lankan. Diluka’s pianism is blessed with a magical quality that few other artists possess. When she performs, her persona undergoes ...