SKU: BT.MUSM570203918

English.

For string quartet. Published 1973. First performance: Tokyo, 1973, Masao Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Toru Yasunaga, Hakuro Mori.

SKU: PR.14440538S

UPC: 680160589456.

Leisner ponders life from nothingness, its force of presence, and its return to nothingness, using sustained strings and increasing/decreasing intensity as a basis upon which to build his impressions. The quartet progresses from near-silence to full-on life-force, before slowly dying away. For advanced performers. Duration: 9'.

SKU: HL.14023298

ISBN 9788759871591. English.

Per Norgard 's Gennem Torne / Through Thorns (2003) Harp Concerto No. 2 - Passage for Harp Solo with Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet. Premiered by Tine Rehling (Harp) and the Esbjerg Ensemble, conducted by Kaisa Roose at the Concert Hall of the Western Jutland Academy of Music, Esbjerg, 28th January 2004. Programme Note THROUGH THORNS has a duration of about 20 minutes, in one continuous movement, thus the subtitle passage. The work is scored for harp solo, flute, clarinet and string quartet. The title is borrowed from the lines from an old Virgin Mary Hymn: Mary wanders through thorns, a hymn which ends with the following line: then roses grew forth amongst thethorns. I only came across the poem after finishing the composition, the passage of which is a journey of sometimes dramatic events, concluding with a rose-blooming, as does the hymn.  For THROUGH THORNS to borrow its title from a Virgin Mary Hymn has to do with the musical material and current of the piece, which brings motives from an earlier choral piece of mine, FLOS UT ROSA (Latin for a flower like a rose), and the rose in question is of course the one which grew forth when the Virgin Mary gave birth to the Infant Jesus in a hitherto unheard-of fashion, a NOVA GENITURA (new birth), which is the title of another work of mine that also derives its material from my original rose-melody from 1975.  THROUGH THORNS is dedicated to Tine Rehling, and together with her I have tried to expand the sonorities of the harp, by exploring existing techniques and their more remote regions, in order to gain access to new territory and new soundscaoes, as realised by the constantly experimentally-minded and virtuoso player.  Per Norgard, 2004.   .

SKU: BT.SCHBB3317

Blue Rose is based on two folk melodies which have been freely developed. It uses uneven beats and bars which creates a rocking feeling that is somewhat reminiscent of Balkan music. The title refers to the way the piece starts, unfolding and blooming as it slowly becomes stronger, like the blue light of dawn. It is one of the few pieces of the composer that is based in a major key (D major).

Blue Rose basiert auf zwei Volksmelodien, die hier frei entwickelt werden. Im Stück werden ungerade Takte verwendet, die ein schaukelndes Gefühl erzeugen und an die Musik des Balkan erinnern. Der Titel bezieht sich auf die Weise, wie das Stück beginnt: sich entfaltend und erblühend, bis es langsam stärke wird - wie das blaue Licht der Dämmerung. Es ist eines der wenigen Werke, das die Komponistin auf D-Dur basierend geschrieben hat.