The Iceland Symphony is on stage Reykjavik later in the hour playing Haydn. But here they are first in an odd juxtaposition of cultures: Johan Halvorsen's "Entry of the Boyars" as a Norwegian take on ...

A Norwegian national spent several days in Australia meticulously planning a complicated coke smuggling operation to retrieve more than 80kg of the drug from a ship’s hull in Newcastle. Here’s the ...

True to tradition, we celebrate Johan Halvorsen's birthday in the theater. Norway's and Europe's new violin favourite Guro Kleven's great composer interprets the Garden. Halvorsen's finest plays with ...

Crépuscule Helge Kjekshus, Piano Johan Halvorsen, Composer Birgitte Stærnes, Violin Élégie Helge Kjekshus, Piano Johan Halvorsen, Composer Birgitte Stærnes, Violin Norwegian Air Helge Kjekshus, Piano ...

Symphony No. 3 Neeme Järvi, Conductor Johan Halvorsen, Composer Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Sorte Svaner, 'Black Swans' Johan Halvorsen, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Halvorsen’s career in the theatre is represented by the suite drawn from his incidental music to Holberg’s Mascarade (1922). Here, the composer was in his true element and this set rattles along in ...

Had Johan Halvorsen been born a hundred years later, he could have composed movie soundtracks. The composer did what he could, and wrote music for Fairy Tales. Here are two of his 'Scenes from ...