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FOR MOONLIGHT and music and, if you’re lucky, a few Northern Lights thrown in, you can’t beat this one – an Edvard Grieg cruise along Norway’s western coastline.

That country's most famous composer created some of the world's most popular music, including Peer Gyntand the March of the Trolls.

His love of his native forests, mountains, waterfalls and fjords, and all the folklore that went them, strongly influenced his works.

So, for classical music lovers, what could be better than sailing into the heart of them on a cruise ship, while listening to his music?

Project Travel has a fully guided package starting in the border town of Kirkenes, in the north of the country and followed by a five-day, full-board, coastal voyage on Hurtigruten's MS Trollfjord, in an outside cabin.

Accompanying you along the way is a series of piano recitals and lectures (in English) with experts from Grieg’s Troldhaugen estate.

There are guided tours for the group in Kirkenes, in the Lofoten Islands, at the Ringve Music Museum and in the composer’s home town of Bergen, where passengers stay on the last night.

The on-board pianist is Rune Alvor, a soloist with several symphony orchestras who is well known for his Grieg performances.

Alvor has played often at the concert hall located within Troldhaugen, Grieg’s former Bergen home and now a museum to the great composer.

The trip takes place from October 15th to 22nd and costs €2,075, including flights and two nights at a three star hotel.

To guarantee this price Project Travel is looking to finalise bookings by mid-August.

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