Idar Torskangerpoll

Secret Garden and Rolf Loevland have for many years given us unforgettable music. This is the title track from their first Christmas released in 2020. It's a warm and beautiful piece with a typical fo...

The Brightest Star wurde erstmals 1987 auf dem Weihnachtsalbum von Sissel Kyrkjeboe veröffentlicht. Das Album wurde ein riesiger Erfolg und ist immer noch eines der meistverkauften Alben aller Zeiten...

Eines der beliebtesten "modernen" Weihnachtslieder. Dieses meisterhafte Arrangement ist ein weiteres großartiges Werk aus der Feder von Idar Torskangerpoll. Die Musik für Little Drummer Boy wurde 1941...

Solan, Ludvig and Reodor Felgen is back! 'Jul i Flaklypa' ('Christmas at Flaklypa') is the sequel to 'Flaklypa Grand Prix' from 1975, the most successful Norwegian movie of all times. This time, the m...

This Christmas psalm is famous all over the world and especially in Europe. It is likely that the melody is more than 600 years old. Many famous composers have written their own harmonics and versions...

This is a piece of music is the title track from the Norwegian Broadcaster NRK's advent calendar TV-series 'Christmas at Svingen'. This is the main title from Norwegian advent calender TV-series for c...

'This Christmas Night' is taken from the Norwegian movie 'Julenatt i Blåfjell' who premiered in 2009. The movie is a follow-up to the very popular TV-series 'Jul i Blåfjell' og 'Jul på Månetoppen' 'Th...

Secret Garden and Rolf Loevland have for many years given us unforgettable music. This is the title track from their first Christmas released in 2020. It's a warm and beautiful piece with a typical fo...

This piece is allways played on norwegian christmas concerts, often as the closing item. This is a grand scale arrangement, the audience might also sing along. The 1st trumpet part can be played on pi...

This song is one of the most used and loved Christmas songs in Sweden during the 20th century. The lyrics describe Christmas as white and snowy, and describe the blessings of Christmas as well as the...

Sverre Bergh was a musical Joy spreader - both as a performer and as a composer. He was involved in radio, movie and theatre music of the highest quality, as a composer of two operettas and a televisi...

A piece that explore the 'blue' notes in music, and where we have the constant change of 3 or 2 in a bar. Solo in horn or altosax. Make sure that the bass line and percussion is steady and firm throug...

Most Norwegians have a special relation to this old, sad tune which has been used as a lullaby throughout the ages. Flugelhorn is the baby-sitter, and soloist.

The Bee Gees were a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but...

This short suite in three movements was written for the beginners band at Hebekk Skolekorps for their 50th Anniversary in 2017. It has three clear moods, and gives young musicians the ability to expre...

This arrangement feature music from the advent series 'Luca and the Magical Theater' produced for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in 2021. You may thin out the instrumentation or even mak...

Smak av honning' ('Taste of Honey') is one of the greatest hits by Norweian pop band DeLillos. It was first included on the EP 'Smak av honning' in 1995 and also on the 'Sent og tidlig' album-release...

Sverre Bergh (1915-1980) was a central character in the music scene in Bergen, both as a musical leader at 'Den Nationale Scene' (theatre) and as a director for the 'Festspillene' music festival. He w...

This is a tune by Sigrid Moldestad (b. 1972), a Norwegian folk artist. She has based it on a warm and beautiful poem by Danish author Tove Ditlefsen. A text for and about love. Sigrid Moldestad won th...

This song from the band Hekla Stålstrenga is about Joe the boatbuilder. Joe builds the most fabulous boats, but has a deal with the devil that every seventh boat is going to him. Norwegian band Hekla...

A protest folk sea chantey from Georgia and South Carolina, 'Pay Me My Money Down' originated from post-slavery African American stevedores, who were often left unpaid by some ship captains. Invite th...

This song first became a hit by Brazilian singer Morris Albert. 'Feelings' must be one of the most known love-songs of all time thanks to numerous recordings from artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley...

'Seasons in the Sun' is an English-language adaptation of the song Le Maribond by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel with lyrics by American singer-poet Rod McKuen. It became a worldwide hit in 19...