Today Eldbjørg and I are playing our digital concert ""Vinterstemning frå Valdres" ("Winter mood from Valdres") with the great musicians as Marianne Beate Kielland and Håvard Gimse - watch us on Facebook! Even if the Hemsing Festival couldn't take place in February, we like to present a little part of our planned program at least. 

Avisa Valdres has written a very nice article about Eldbjørg and me. We're talking about being an artist in times of Corona and about the Hemsing Festival - among other topics...  

Radio "Bremen Zwei" has published a very nice review for RØTA - for my German speaking friends... 

I'm very happy to announce the trailer for my upcoming album RØTA, which is very special to me, as it represents my Norwegian roots. 

We, Tor Espen Aspaas and I, are delighted to announce the release of our new recording "Beethoven's Testaments of 1802"!

My concert with my dear friend and pianist Tor Espen Aspaas at Hjertnes kulturhus on July 18. was named “Beethoven with Norwegian resonances”. It was part of Midtåsen Festival. This review is written by Svein Erik Tandberg from “Sandefjord Blad” newspaper.

A new interview on Germanys classical music website klassikinfo.de

For all the people who like to know a little bit more about me, my home town and my music: I'm happy to present my new Portrait Film, now online on youtube! 

As you might know, I'm not only playing the classical violin, but also love my traditional instrument, the "Hardanger Fiddle". You can learn a little bit more about it here in my video!

To my German speaking friends: I was interviewed by Classicpoint.net.

Berlin Classics is proud to announce the signing of Norwegian violinist and Hardanger fiddle player Ragnhild Hemsing.

Thanks so much to Klick Klack at BR-Klassik and Sol Gabetta for producing this wonderful feature about the Hemsing Festival! They did such a great job capturing the atmosphere and spirit of the festival, and we're so happy to be able to share documentary video with you here.

Listen to the radio feature of Hemsing Festival 2019 in Radioklassik Austria with the headline "Kammermusik in Aurdal". 

"Mit Langlaufski zu Debussy".

Live recording of Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor by Ragnhild Hemsing and pianist Tor Espen Aspaas on NRK Television as a part of the celebration of Grieg´s 175 anniversary «Grieg, minute by minute», a live broadcasting of 30 hours with all the opus numbers Grieg composed on June 15-16, 2018. See the video recording here:

Live recording of Ragnhild Hemsing´s performance of Ole Bull «Polacca Guerriera» with WDR Funkhausorchester Köln and conductor Rumon Gamba in Cologne in January 2018. The concert was aired on WDR.

Listen to the live recording here:

«This one is entirely about the music. That's a strange way to begin a music review, I know, but with a 2L release there's always so much more going on than the performances. There's the extraordinary care taken during the recording process to ensure that the sound quality is state-of-the-art, there's the cutting edge technologies used to achieve that goal and finally there's a theme to explore, usually a cerebral one that's aimed squarely at true lovers of classical music. These themes can be simple, or they can be so esoteric that only a handful of music lovers would discover the intent on their own without the help of the unusually detailed liner notes."

"Altogether a remarkable release." — Martin Anderson, August 2017. 6 out of 6 stars for Hemsing´s new album NORTHERN TIMBRE with pianist Tor Espen Aspaas in Norwegian classical magazin "klassiskmusikk.com". Reviewed by Martin Anderson. Read the review here:

In Norwegian: http://klassiskmusikk.com/review/northern-timbre/

Great review of album Northern Timbre in Audophile Audition from August 2017. Read it here:

Summer record review on BBC Radio.

Listen to the review of Hemsing´s new album NORTHERN TIMBRE on BBC Radio with Andrew McGregor from July 15th 2017.

Review of NORTHERN TIMBRE in Norwegian music magazine Kulturspeilet (in Norwegian).

NEW RECORDING: Ragnhild Hemsing´s new recording Northern Timbre together with pianist Tor Espen Aspaas was released in May 2017 on label 2L.

Repertoire: Nordic programme with works for Violin and Piano by Edvard Grieg, Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius

Great review in Norberger Zeitung (in German). 

Conductor: Jonas Alber

Repertoire: Sibelius Violin Concerto and Halvorsen Fossegrimen Suite on the Hardanger fiddle

Wonderful review of Ragnhild Hemsing´s recital at SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele 2016 in Mannheimer Morgen.

Pianist: Tor Espen Aspaas

Journalist Lisbeth David-Andersen visited Ragnhild Hemsing at her home in November 2015 and made a portrait interview with her. 

Solo debut from genre-crossing Norwegian violinist and fiddler:

«Her tone is remarkably pure, with an inner steel audible in her control of intonation over larger spans.» Gramophone / Guy Richards.

Read full review here:

«On the evidence of this recording, 23-year-old Ragnhild Hemsing is destined for great things. Already a leading performer in her Norwegian homeland (she made her debut aged 13 playing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Bergen Philharmonic), last year she made quite an impression playing Halvorsen’s Fossegrimen Suite for Chandos.» - The Strad / JULIAN HAYLOCK

Read the full review here