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Johan Halvorsen

1 CD / 2 L Records / 2004-03-30

Works: Johan Halvorsen: Suite for violin & piano in G minor; Elegie, for violin & piano; Suite Mosaique, for violin & piano; The Old Fisherman's Song; Stimmungsbilder, for violin & piano
Performers: Aspaas, Tor Espen; Per Kristian Skalstad

Norwegian Violin Favourites / Kraggerud, Engeset, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-02-01

Works: Ole Borneman Bull: Visit to a Summer Farm (conclusion, including The Herd Girl's Sunday) Halfdan; La Mélancolie; Concerto for Violin in E minor; Christian Sinding: Suite for violin & orchestra (...
Performers: Kraggerud, Henning
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra

Norwegian violin music dates back to the country's traditional folk instrument, the Hardanger fiddle. The oldest surviving fiddle dates from the early 1650s, its construction...continue...