The Nordic Sound with Jameson Foster

The last effects of the Nazis are still felt by their victims today, including the composers they manipulated and conscripted. Perhaps Christian Sinding and David Monrad Johansen deserve some re-evaluation.

Let's re-break some glass ceilings with Agathe Backer-Grøndahl's music. She wasn't highly respected by Liszt and Brahms for nothing, after all.

With marching giants, fiddling trolls, and roaring saga dramas, Johan Halvorsen brought his love of all things dramatic and theatrical to the music life of Oslo, and it's everything you could want from a staunch Norwegianist composer.

Introductions and meeting the first known Norwegian composers Johan Daniel, and Johan Heinrich Berlin.

Defining Romanticism and meeting Norway's first Romantic composer, Waldemar Thrane.

Six episodes and still no symphonies? Let's see what Otto Winter-hjelm and Johan Svendsen had to say about this.

Edvard Grieg's legacy is quite the paradox - he has written some of the most familiar and memorable pieces in all of music history, yet so little is known about him today despite his marked influence on 20th century music.

Let's learn about Ole Bull, perhaps the most ridiculous, yet admirable, character in Norwegian music history who started Norwegian music culture as we know it today.

Getting to know Halfdan Kjerulf, the 'Norwegian Schubert' who pioneered quite a few core traits of Norwegian composition.