Tickets to individual performances on sale July 26, 2022

GRIEG: PEER GYNT IN CONCERT

January 13-14, 2023 | Music Hall

Tickets to individual performances on sale July 26, 2022

Grieg’s musical embodiment of Ibsen’s tale comes to life at Music Hall.

Program

DANÍEL BJARNASON: Violin Concerto

EDVARD GRIEG: Peer Gynt [concert-staged production]

Artists

Louis Langrée, conductor

Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Camilla Tilling, soprano (Solveig)
May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director
Concert Theatre Works, Bill Barclay, director

Venue

Music Hall

Series

Series 2

What's Interesting

A Norwegian fairy tale comes to life in Music Hall with a concert staging of Grieg’s enchanting score to Ibsen’s play, created and directed by Bill Barclay, former Director of Music at Shakespeare's Globe. Louis Langrée leads the Orchestra and cast, including soprano Camilla Tilling and the May Festival Chorus. Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto opens the program with whimsical whistling by soloist Pekka Kuusisto, for whom the concerto was written.

What Critics Are Saying:

“[Bjarnason’s] 2017 Violin Concerto opens the album with a spectacular performance by soloist Pekka Kuusisto. Intensely virtuosic, the violin is nonetheless always part of a greater whole: from folky, whistled tunes to roaring and growling on the detuned bottom string, storms of colour are unleashed for the orchestra to absorb and rework in surging textures.”
—BBC Music Magazine

“It’s difficult to resist the purity of her sound, the loveliness of her pearly, bright tone…Tilling bringing beguiling tone and unfailing musicality.”
—Gramophone Magazine

“Barclay’s stage direction made full use of the space, and simple props of chairs, tables, and coat racks left the Norwegian countryside and other exotic locations up to the imagination.”
—Boston Classical Music Review