'Who can Sail without the Wind' is an old folk tune from Aland in Finland. I believe the song was one of the first one I learnt to sing and play on the guitar. The melancholic character of the song i...
A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...
This arrangement written by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen for Trumpet Solo with Brassband is a meditation on a folk tune from Hallingdal in Norway. The text was originally in German from before 1600.
Arctic Funk might just as well have been a flashing sequel to a scene from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Popular music but with a difference, as indicated by the title. The work's quiet section...
After composing 'Introduction' in 1989 and 'Entrada' in 1990, Aagaard-Nilsen received a new commission for a 'concert-opener', this time from Tromsø Brass in 1991. Tromsø is a city in the north of Nor...
'Introduction' is a short concert opener. I quote a couple of Norwegian Folk Tunes to make a musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore to face a battle. They used to drink something mad...
A short concert opener. I quote a couple of Norwegian Folk Tunes to make a musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore to face a battle. They used to drink something made of mushrooms to...
Im November 2014 beauftragte mich Peter Szilvay, der Dirigent des Christiania Wind Ensembles (Oslo) ein relativ kurzes, aber effektvolles, intensives und tänzerisches Stück - ähnlich dem 'A Short Ride...
