Live performance by The Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra and Bodø Cathedral Choir, conducted by Peter Szilvay.
EDVARD GRIEG was a composer who firmly put his country, Norway, on the musical map. Many of his pieces were based on Norwegian fairy stories and melodies, and over 100 years since his death he is still his country’s most respected composer. Grieg was taught piano by his mother from the age of just 6 and then when he was a teenager, a famous violinist spotted his talent and persuaded his parents to send him to music school in Germany, and so his music career began. In the Hall of the Mountain King comes from undoubtedly his most famous work – Peer Gynt, which was written in 1875 as background music to a famous play
Grieg’s ‘Peer Gynt Suite’ tells the story of a young boy – Peer Gynt, who falls in love with a girl but is not allowed to marry her. He runs away into the mountains but is captured by trolls who take him to their King. Peer Gynt tries to escape but is chased by the trolls and runs into the troll King but eventually gets away.
