Meny

Grieg’s Holberg Suite is the musical counterpart to Norway’s great national romantic painting tradition – as iconic as Tiedemann and Gude’s famous landscape from Hardanger. Though composed in Baroque dance forms, the suite feels as innately Norwegian and folkloric as the bunad – full of warmth, charm, and familiar rhythms.

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If Grieg is light and day, Shostakovich represents night – at its deepest and most haunting. Yet like a Nordic summer night that suddenly shifts and reveals unexpected brightness, our performance of his work – played entirely from memory – transforms into something radiant. It becomes a turning point, where the music moves from shadow into light.

This is not an evening that ends in darkness – but in something deeper, brighter, and wholly unexpected.