Peer Gynt’s Homecoming - Evening storm on the coast
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 – 1907)
Grieg is the most important Norwegian composer in the national-romantic period and then who had the greatest international success and respect. He’s dramatic talents were put to a new test when Henrik Ibsen asked him to compose the incidental music to “Peer Gynt” in 1876. This was no easy task for Grieg, but the music he wrote became one of the major works of the 1870’s. In Grieg’s own lifetime the “Peer Gynt” music scored a resounding international success thanks, not least, to the two orchestral suites which made the music accessible in the concert hall. This movement depicts the storm at sea off the coast of Norway.
Kjell Martinsen
Since 1965 his employment has been as a french horn player in the Staff Band of The Norwegian Defence Forces in Oslo. Behind this, he played 6 years in theatre and in long terms in The Norwegian Opera. Played in The Oslo Brass Quintet for 25 years and take part in a lot of recording in studios. He was conductor for The Eastern Region Band in Halden 1983-85 and 1988-90.
From 1998 to 2006 he was conductor for The Band of H.M. the Kings Guards in Oslo. Since 1985 he gives lectures in methods, ensemble and band managements at The Norwegian State Academy of Music and he has guest conducting in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and England. He is a well-recommended censor in major national and regional music competitions.
