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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