One of the most wide-ranging and prolific of Norwegian composers, Geirr Tveitt studied in Leipzig, Vienna and Paris with teachers including Honegger, Villa-Lobos and Wellesz, but his cosmopolitan style also sank deep roots into the soil of his family’s native Hardanger region of western Norway. As much as four-fifths of Tveitt’s large output was lost in a devastating fire at his Hardanger home in 1970; surviving music fortunately includes these richly imaginative orchestral suites among his very few works to draw directly on the Hardanger folk tradition.