Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

The Oslo Philharmonic is Norway's flagship orchestra, with concerts often broadcast nationally and a distinguished recording catalog that has spread its work internationally. Many of the orchestra's conductors have been foreigners; it flourished especially in the 1980s and '90s under the leadership of Latvian Mariss Jansons, who came to Oslo for his first conducting post outside the Soviet Union. The modern Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra evolved from several earlier groups: Edvard Grieg's Christiana Musikforening and the Christiana Theater Orchestra (Christiana was the former n...