An interesting find on the Mercury label, a concert of Norwegian "popular" pieces conducted by Odd Gruner-Hegge and Oivin Fjeldstad. This lp features a favorite march of mine, the Valdres March of Johannes Hanssen, wonderfully idiomatic as you might expect.
Here's what Billboard said in 1954 about this issue:
This fine recording of light selections by some of Norway's top composers could interest those collectors who are perhaps a little tired of Strauss and Tchaikovsky. Some of the compositions are well known such as the "Entrance March of the Boyars" and "The Herd Girl's Sunday." But the rest by Hanssen, Halvorsen and Svendson, are not as familiar. All are played skillfully.
It's a delightful three quarters of an hour of your listening time.
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