Performer: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

An eclectic programme including evocative Sámi joiks from and powerful Shostakovich performed from memory by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Two big-boned Mozart piano concertos played by Leif Ove Andsnes formed the meaty filling in a concert by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra that showcased their superb ensemble characteristics.

When one thinks of Haydn, opera really isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. It’s the symphonies, the string quartets, even his oratorios you think of first, not his operas. And yet he wrote 15 of them. L’isola disabitata is the eleventh of the bunch, written for the Eszterházy court in 1779, and it was this opera The Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO) chose as their 2012/2013 season opener.