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The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound manages a collection of recorded music and associated items and is one of the largest private collections of its kind in Europe.
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Unknown folk song
Arne Dørumsgaard (baritone)
We need your help identifying this song. Read more about our Mysteries series
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Audio Advendt Calendar 2012
November1. 2012
It's snowing and raining outside, but inside the premises of the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound in Stavanger you get the Christmas feeling. We have decorated for Christmas by exhibiting the recordings belonging to this season. And according to our special tradition, we will present to our web audience a Christmas Calendar filled with historical recordings from our collections.
Easter Exhibition - St. Matthew Passion
21th March 2012
We follow up the feedback we got on our past sound exhibitions, and continue with music for the Easter holidays. This year we have selected Bach's St. Matthew Passion and during the Easter holyday, we will post recitatives, arias and choral movements from this magnificent work. The recording dates from the year 1942.
Audio Advent Calendar
November 1. 2011
From 1 December we will have our annual advent calendar, featuring a new recording clip each day until Christmas Day. These are digitalised extracts from pre-1960 recordings - many of them treasures from early 78s (such as Caruso singing "Sancta Maria"). Enjoy!
Peer Gynt-exhibition back online
April 29. 2011
The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound has made an exhibition of all LP covers from recordings of the Peer Gynt music of Edvard Grieg which is housed at the institute. The exhibition has travelled the world, and is now finally available on our website again.
New mystery: Music from a mime
March 1. 2011
We continue our series where we ask our readers to help identify the music on unlabeled discs. This time the man who is known for the "art of silence" gives us trouble when he breaks the silence.
If you look up in a dictionary under the word "mime", you would most likely find a picture of Marcel Marceau. But as a recording artist, he is not the first name that comes to mind, so what could be on a record labeled Marcel Marceau?
New series: Mysteries from the archives
Feb 2. 2011
We are working continuously to catalog our ever-increasing collections, but some records present us with bigger challenges than others. Sometimes we are able to identify such mysteries ourselves, but some records are such great challenges that we come to a standstill. Therefore, we now ask our knowledgeable readers for help. In the series Mysteries from the archive we will post some of these records that we are unable to decode, in the hope that some of our readers can show off their skills and knowledge where we are at the end of ours. The first mystery is a record filled with love, but not all of the songs are as easy to recognize: Help us solve this mystery!
Listening course: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
Jan 6. 2010
The Listening courses have started again for the semester and first piece up is Beethoven's fifth piano concerto, better known as the Emperor Concerto.This piece replaces Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, which originally was on the agenda. In connection with this course we have put together an exhibition with several of the recordings of this concerto found in our collections. In addition we present a taste of the concerto on our website through a short excerpt from one of the recordings in the exhibition.
Advent Calendar 2010
Nov 22. 2010
Time flies, and the Christmas season is upon us again. The streets and trees are dressed in Christmas garb with lights and ribbons, the smell of gingerbread and mulled wine is teasing the nostrils, and the Christmas candy that have been in stores since October can now be enjoyed with a good conscience. True to tradition, Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound serves a 24 course musical meal as an early Christmas present to everyone. Enjoy!
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