It was 1906 when a frail Grieg embarked on his sixth tour of England. Queen Victoria had been an admirer, her son’s subjects idolised him and his previous tours were box-office successes. It would be ...

“Fight on, my lads, for England's sake, We'll gain the field or die...” Based on the English folksong, The Duke of Marlborough that portrays the Battle of Ramil, Percy Grainger’s fanfare of the same ...

As a small child growing up in Melbourne, Percy Grainger devoured the Icelandic sagas, signed his letters “Grettir the Strong” and bounded up every available stairway. His adoring mother Rose, ...

Amiable, boyish Percy Aldrich Grainger, 46, was sternly rehearsing the Hollywood Bowl symphony orchestra. He was for the first time in his life to do three things at Hollywood this week, and he must ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AT THE core of the latest Master Series concerts from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra stood Piers Lane's reading of Grieg's Piano ...

This five-item, conductor-less programme, ranging from Vivaldi to Grieg, might have proved to be little more than pot-pourri. But the subtle progression of instrumentation and styles created a ...

A collapsed left lung when he was 16 took its toll on Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), and the majority of his pieces are short forms in which Grieg tried, as he put it, "to build dwellings for men in which ...