Many a TV advertisement (or, dare we say it, telephone on-hold service) has used the opening movement, Morning from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1 to create a musical mood. The fourth movement depicting ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra closes its two-year journey away from Powell Hall this weekend at Stifel Theatre with a fully staged production of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The project reunites ...

While many classical music listeners might be familiar with Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s two marvelous suites extracted from the Henrik Ibsen play “Peer Gynt,” this weekend, the Allentown ...

Peer Gynt Malmö Chamber Choir Malmö Symphony Orchestra Edvard Grieg, Composer Bjarte Engeset, Conductor Before a southern convent (Foran sydens kloster) Edvard Grieg, Composer Malmö Symphony Orchestra ...

Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...

I’ve never seen a stage so packed with performing talent! Last night, at Peer Gynt, the stage at the Stifel was chock-a-block with the full St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the SLSO Chorus—plus ten ...

150 years since Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt premiered in Norway in 1876, writer and music historian Leah Broad explores whether and how the play and Edvard Grieg’s incidental music are still able to ...

In the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, Peer wakes up in the Arabian desert, robbed and abandoned. He suffers from his mother's death, is seduced by an Arabian dance and, in the Hall of the Mountain ...

Grieg's music is brought to life with a mysterious animated introduction. Grieg's music drew on the Norwegian folk tunes of his homeland. He wrote many songs and piano miniatures. He was a leading ...