Version with Piano and String Orchestra - Score)-A song cycle for baritone voice...(+)
Version with Piano and String Orchestra - Score)-A song cycle for baritone voice string orchestra and piano. The composer writes: 'Naarasäiti (The Lustful Mother) is about becoming a mother an experience in which sexuality combines in a natural way with the birth of a new life. The texts of the cycle are from the collections of poems Äitejä tyttäriä (Ãrbeeadni The Time of the Lustful Mother 2013) and Kylmä kumppani (Galbma rádna My Cold Companion 1999) by two contemporary Sámi poets Rauni Magga Lukkari and Rose-Marie Huuva. The poems’ primitive matriarchal beat is present throughout in the music: a dark earthy solo viola accompanies the baritone while the sizzling sparkling strings erupt at times in powerfultextures' A song cycle for baritone voice string orchestra and piano. The composer writes: 'Naarasäiti (The Lustful Mother) is about becoming a mother an experience in which sexuality combines in a natural way with the birth of a new life. The texts of the cycle are from the collections of poems Äitejä tyttäriä (Ãrbeeadni The Time of the Lustful Mother 2013) and Kylmä kumppani (Galbma rádna My Cold Companion 1999) by two contemporary Sámi poets Rauni Magga Lukkari and Rose-Marie Huuva. The poems’ primitive matriarchal beat is present throughout in the music: a dark earthy solo viola accompanies the baritone while the sizzling sparkling strings erupt at times in powerfultextures'
Vagn Holmboe's Concerto No.11 Op.44 For Trumpet And Orchestra is part of a serie...(+)
Vagn Holmboe's Concerto No.11 Op.44 For Trumpet And Orchestra is part of a series of 'Chamber' concertos written for soloists with smaller accompaniment groups. Concerto no.11 is based upon the concertos of Joseph Haydn and features the fast-slow-fast formal structure typical of the Classical concerto. Holmboe's melodic writing is modelled upon the motivic and thematic developments that are highly characteristic of Haydn's melodic constructions lending the work a timeless air.
Pastorale (from Babettes Gæstebud / Babettes Feast) - Version for String Orches...(+)
Pastorale (from Babettes Gæstebud / Babettes Feast) - Version for String Orchestra (the original version from 1997 is for string trio). Parts are for hire: hire@ewh.dk Preface / Programme Note My PASTORALE is melodically utterly simple almost 'ear-catching'. The simplicity stems frommy hymn-tune JERUSALEM the theme of which permeates my incidental music for Oscar winning film (Best Foreign Film.1987) BABETTE' S FEAST by Danish director Gabriel Axel. The film is based on a short story by another reknown Dane Karen Blixen; it is the story of two sisters who are members of a very Puritancongregation but deceide to have a big feast of earthly (gastronomic) delights; the PASTORALE is heard during the sumptuous meal. Below the song-like surface of my PASTORALE the metrical implications arerather ambiguous; the changes between marked and un-marked beats forces the ear to perceive a phrase to beo nthe beat at one moment and off the beat at the next moment. In this way the simple lines of lyrical pastoral serenity conjure the listener to be lulled into an artificial Paradise which is exactly the mood ofthe guests at the banquet the feast in the central scene ofthe movie. The original PASTORALE is scored for string trio; the present version for string orchestra came along in 1988 and was premiered in New York City that year. (Per Nørgård 1999)
Maja S. K. Ratkje's Tale Of Lead And Frozen Light for String Orchestra. Full sco...(+)
Maja S. K. Ratkje's Tale Of Lead And Frozen Light for String Orchestra. Full score. Based on the String Quartet Tale of Lead and Light (2011). The original String Quartet was written in the aftermath of the events in Oslo and Utoya July 2011. A source of musical inspiration is Beethoven's “Quartet Op. 59 No. 1.” The ambiguity in the title reflects both hope and dread. Beethoven's light shines through strong and full of life!
Af Symfoni Nr. 14-Upaaagtede Morgenstjerner/Unnoticed Morning Stars for Strings ...(+)
Af Symfoni Nr. 14-Upaaagtede Morgenstjerner/Unnoticed Morning Stars for Strings (1948) BVN 366:2. Unnoticed Morning Stars is second movement of Symphony No. 14 'The Morning' (BVN 336). The composer states that the movement may be performed as a separate piece for string orchestra. Description of sources and critical commentary are found in the edition of Symphony no. 14. Critical Edition by The Rued Langgaard Edition.
POD-Up And Away (2017) for String Orchestra by Henrik Hellstenius. Commissioned ...(+)
POD-Up And Away (2017) for String Orchestra by Henrik Hellstenius. Commissioned by The Barrat Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk
Eivind Buene's Sea Change for String Trio and Ensemble (2016). Commissioned by t...(+)
Eivind Buene's Sea Change for String Trio and Ensemble (2016). Commissioned by the Bergen Festival for London Sinfoniettawith Guro Kleven Hagen Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad and Kian Soltani.First performance: Bergen 02.06.17 conducted by Pierre-André Valade. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk
Fra Kai Munks 'Ordet'-Poul Schierbeck's Largo (Fra Kai Munks 'Ordet') for string...(+)
Fra Kai Munks 'Ordet'-Poul Schierbeck's Largo (Fra Kai Munks 'Ordet') for strings. Music from Carl Th. Dreyer's motion picture after Kai Munk's play 'The Word'.
In Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich-Lumière - In Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich b...(+)
In Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich-Lumière - In Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich by Søren Nils Eichberg (2017) - scored for 2 solo Cellos and String Orchestra. Commissioned by Kronberg Academy in Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich. With support by the Danish Composers Association and KODA Premiered by Frans Helmerson Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Kammerorchester Metamorphosen Berlin on November 16th 2017 in Konzerthaus Berlin.
