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"Music: Breath of the statues. Perhaps: Silence of images. Your language where languages end" - Rainer Maria Rilke

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, a Norwegian national orchestra, dates back to 1765. Edvard Grieg served as its artistic director from 1880 to 1882. Edward Gardner is Chief Conductor and Sir Mark Elder is the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor.
The orchestra was nominated 'Orchestra of the Year' 2020 by Gramophone and won two Gramophone Classical Music Awards in 2021: Recording of the Year and Opera Award Winner for Britten’s Peter Grimes. In recent years, the orchestra has played in the Concertgebouw, at the BBC Proms, Wiener Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall, New York, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Philharmonie, Berlin.
The orchestra and Edward Gardner appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) (2017) and Royal Festival Hall (2019) with their critically acclaimed production of Peter Grimes. In 2022 the orchestra was invited back to the Edinburgh International Festival and received rave reviews for their performance of Strauss’ Salome.
  Edward Gardner and the Orchestra has released a series of recordings, including a Grammy-nominated recording of Janáčeks Glagolitic Mass, Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder, songs by Sibelius, Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Incidental music to Peer Gynt, Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Pelleas und Melisande, Britten’s Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton and Erin Wall, songs by Britten and Canteloube with soprano Mari Eriksmoen and a CD with saxophonist Marius Neset. In 2023 they released Nordheim’s Tempest (LWC1250).

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 9 | Rondo for Piano and Orchestra
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Dejan Lazić | Jan Willem de Vriend
Frederick Delius
Frederick Delius Eine Messe des Lebens (A Mass of Life)
Sir Mark Elder | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Dejan Lazić | Jan Willem de Vriend
Arne Nordheim
Arne Nordheim: The Tempest - Suite from the Ballet
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Henrik Hellstenius
Henrik Hellstenius: Past & Presence
Tora Augestad
Various composers
OPUS250
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra