Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...

Vossa Jazz festival is the kickoff event in Norway's formidable jazz festival season, highlighted by newly commissioned works and a dense, Norwegian music-focused schedule . The 2025 edition, the 52nd ...

Compact showcase festival Trondheim Calling fizzes with life as it lifts up Norway’s seemingly unlimited supply of innovative ...

This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

Inspired by The Shadows, shadows bands spring up across the country in the sixties. And the parent generation calls their music barbed-wire music. Surrounded by screaming girls, parties, and scandals, ...