Welcome to Live Klassisk's New Year quiz! Which group is hiding behind the anagram, which film star met Lise Davidsen in New York, and who conducted the New Year's Concert in Vienna this year? Scroll down to the bottom to see the answers.
1: ANAGRAM OF THE MONTH
LIBERAL ENGLESAME
Hint – plays at several Norwegian festivals in January and February!
OTHER QUESTIONS
2: Kontekst criticised Konstknekt before Christmas. What is Kontekst, what is Konstknekt, and what was the issue?
3: Who conducted the traditional New Year's Concert from Vienna on New Year's Day?
4: Which film actress portrays Maria Callas in the film Maria, and recently met the Norwegian star soprano Lise Davidsen in New York?
5: What do these composers have in common:
Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Bedrich Smetana, Gabriel Fauré and Ralph Vaughan Williams?
6: Why is the classical music festival in Kongsberg called Glogerfestspillene?
7: Which opera does the music played in the film Shawshank Redemption (Frihetens Regn) from 1994 come from?
8: Which family of composers dominates the programme of the traditional New Year's Concert in Vienna?
9: What is always the last encore at this concert?
10: Guess at least 2 of the pieces performed at the Oslo-filharmonien's New Year concerts in 2025!
THE ANSWERS
1) Ensemble Allegria
3) Riccardo Muti
4) Angelina Jolie
5) They all went deaf. We could have mentioned Beethoven too, but that would probably have been too easy.
6) The Glogerfestspillene takes its name from the German organ builder Gottfried Heinrich Gloger and the organ in Kongsberg Church. The organ was built in the period 1760-1765.
7) The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
8) The Strauss family
9) The Radetzky March by Johann Strauss I
10) The concert has the following programme:
Johann Strauss Jr: Die Fledermaus: Overture
Franz Lehár: Gold und Silber, waltz
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 4
Johann Strauss Jr: Im Krapfenwaldl, polka
Johann Strauss Jr: Annen-Polka
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Johann Strauss Jr: Kaiserwaltzer
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Johann Strauss Jr: Pizzicato-Polka
Johann Strauss Jr: Unter Donner und Blitz, polka
Johann Strauss Jr: An der schönen blauen Donau
Johann Strauss Sr: Radetzky March