Peer Gynt on Hardanger Fiddle

LONGING FOR FREEDOM
Adventurousness, swagger and fistfuls of lies... For her second album on the label Berlin Classics, Norwegian violinist and Hardanger fiddle player Ragnhild Hemsing has taken on one of Norway's most famous and legendary figures: Peer Gynt. She is not part of the original orchestration, but has had selected sections of Peer Gynt's show music, op. 23 arranged for her solo instruments, hardanger fiddle and violin, together with string orchestra - thus establishing the connection between Peer Gynt's traditional story and Norwegian folk music.