Svein Henrik Giske

Amongst Henry Haagenrud's numerous compositions for accordion, Green Pastel is perhaps the most famous. This waltz, characterized by Haagenrud's style of playing, has a rather continental feel to it a...

This challenging arrangement for Concert Band was originally recorded for piano/flugelhorn duet. The jazz pianist Mikhail Misha Alperin of Ukraina is today Professor at The Norwegian Academy of Music...

Rukan Krukan has its origins from the collaboration between The Norwegian Armed Forces Band -Western Norway, legendary Hardanger fiddle player Knut Buen and myself which in 1999 resulted in the album...

Koppangen' is written by Pererik Moreaus, known as violinist in the Swedish folk music group Orsa Spelmän. The song is inspired of- and has got it's name after the nature Reserve Koppangen located nea...

Most of her life, Gjendine spent in Jotunheimen area, basically at Gjendebu, Skogadalsboen and Spiterstulen. She met the famous Edvard Grieg , first time in the mountains in 1891, and influated his ar...

Koppangen' is written by Pererik Moreaus, known as violinist in the Swedish folk music group Orsa Spelmän. The song is inspired of- and has got it's name after the nature Reserve Koppangen located nea...

The versatile Norwegian guitarist and composer Knut Reiersrud has worked with many different musicians and artists throught the years. What particularly caught my ear was his collaboration with organ...

Fields of Gold is one of the biggest hits by British singer and composer Sting. It was released for the first time in 1993 on his album record Ten Summoner's Tales, the first of several recordings bot...

Odd Nordstoga is an award winning Norwegian artist who has been active since the 1990's, working in the popular-/folk music genre. I have listened to a lot of Odd Nordstogas music, in particular the...

This beautiful aria from Rinaldo by Handel is a masterfully arranged character piece for concert band! Lascia ch'io pianga is an aria from the opera Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel. It was the first...

I came to know of this piece when hearing famous Norwegian ragtime pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen playing it at a concert with the Norwegian Navy Band Bergen. I was struck by it's melancholic beauty and...

Champagne Tango was recorded for the first time in 1914 by the pianist Roberto Firpo. After the first release, is's recorded a numerous times both in Argentina and abroad. It was written by Manuel Aró...

Seaside Rendezvous is a song with a lot a humour to put the musicians, and audience as well, in the right mood! The song is featured on the 1975-album success A Night At The Opera by British band Quee...

The composition consists mainly of little bits put together in different ways, creating melodies, scales and harmonies. The bits are, if you like, small fragments in musical motion or context, -hence...