ELNA's Norwegian working group recommends works ranging from romantic piano to harsh electroacoustic music. The works were chosen by pianist and working group member Sara Aimée Smiseth, who also provided comments for each selection.

Synne Skouen – Fram (2023)
The opera Fram, with a libretto by Oda Radoor, is Skouen's second commissioned work for Den Norske Opera & Ballett. It was very well received at its premiere and is highlighted here as a relevant and representative example of contemporary Norwegian music drama.

Cecilie Ore – Etapper (1988)
The electroacoustic work Etapper is based on a text by Ole Robert Sunde from his novel Kontrapunktisk ("Contrapuntal"). Through the processing of spoken and whispered vocal sounds, Ore explores the sonic qualities of language, and the work stands as a significant contribution to the electroacoustic tradition.

Signe Lund – Naturstemninger (1928)
Naturstemninger was composed during a stay in the United States, where the landscape of Washington state evoked both recognition and homesickness in Lund. The work belongs to a Romantic piano tradition and reflects a composer who was later marginalized in Norwegian musical life, but whose music is now gradually being rediscovered.

Agathe Backer Grøndahl – Etudes de Concert (1901)
Backer Grøndahl’s concert études were written late in her life, several decades after her studies in Europe. While she in her later years had worked with arrangements of Norwegian folk music, this work shows how she remained rooted in a large-scale, virtuosic, and continentally oriented piano tradition.