Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen: Mittelschwere Noten

'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...

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...

Volksmelodien wurden im Zuge des Aufbaus Norwegens als unabhängiges Land gesammelt. Fiedler und Volkssänger lernten voneinander. Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden Aufnahmen gemacht, um Melodien zu...

Brout wurde von Jane Westervik und der Krohnengen Brass Band für KBB Ung in Auftrag gegeben. Eine berühmte norwegische Volksmelodie wird in diesem lustigen Stück verwendet. Es handelt von einem Ziege...

Volksmelodien wurden im Zuge des Aufbaus Norwegens als unabhängiges Land gesammelt. Fiedler und Volkssänger lernten voneinander. Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden Aufnahmen gemacht, um Melodien zu...

Brout wurde von Jane Westervik und der Krohnengen Brass Band für KBB Ung in Auftrag gegeben. Eine berühmte norwegische Volksmelodie wird in diesem lustigen Stück verwendet. Es handelt von einem Ziege...

Poco Loco wurde von der Krohnengen Brass Band für KBB Ung in Auftrag gegeben. Die Idee war, dass erfahrene Musiker mit jüngeren zusammen spielen können. Das Stück ist um ein eingängiges, aber einfache...

Poco Loco wurde von der Krohnengen Brass Band für KBB Ung in Auftrag gegeben. Die Idee war, dass erfahrene Musiker mit jüngeren zusammen spielen können. Das Stück ist um ein eingängiges, aber einfache...

I was made aware of this beautiful wedding march in connection with a wedding in Lofoten, up north in Norway as I made an arrangement for quintet and altosax soloist. Later, I wrote an arrangement for...

Grand March by Ole Bull only existed as a piano arrangement of the three first parts. In 2010, when Ole Bulls two hundred years anniversary was celebrated in Norway, I made a reconstruction of the who...

Some of the pieces was written for Erlend, my oldest son, who has performed some of them in concerts. This pieces suites valved instruments very well, but of course they can be played on any instrumen...

Some of the pieces was written for Erlend, my oldest son, who has performed some of them in concerts. This pieces suites valved instruments very well, but of course they can be played on any instrumen...

Grim was commissioned by Sandviken Ungdomskorps in 1998. Grim is a folkloristic pastiche, but also with a jazz-flavoured inspiration. The piece ends with the folk-music played on top of a theme from a...

Fraxinus Excelsior is the latin name for the ash tree. The piece is written for a school band seated in Asker, a community with its name derived from the word 'ash'. The tree is also known in Norse my...

This work was commissioned by Midtun Skoles Musikkorps (Bergen) and their conductor Christian Breistein. This is one of the best school bands in Norway, consisting of members up to 19 years of age. Aa...

Draug is a sea-monster! The piece is not too difficult...Commissioned by the Torghatt-festival.

The Cock was originally written as an arrangement for brassband for Norwegian band Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag and their CD-release 'Light' in 1989. I chose the Norwegian tune 'Hanen stend pa stabburs...

This piece was commissioned by Borge Brass Band with support from Borge Sparebank in 1997. They suggested some folk tunes from Lofoten for the composer, from which he chose two of them. The two folk s...

A short, soft, mellow piece of music, expresses the feeling you sometime have when thoughtfulness and calmness are more important. After working on a piece for choire using a poem called 'Nights have...

Be Thou My Vision' is the eldest religious song from Irland used in Norway. The lyrics was originally written in Old Irish and translated to English in 1905 and versified in 1912. The text from 1912 i...

Hymn of Lofoten is composed by Dag Kajander from Kabelvag in Lofoten, a part of Northern Norway. Kajander is composer, singer and author of books for children. Hymn from Lofoten was written in 1979. T...

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...

New Waves is a special composition. Although contemporary but still attractive to musicians and listeners. Norwegian composer Aagaard-Nilsen has failed in a special way to add new elements to the cont...

New Waves is a special composition. Although contemporary but still attractive to musicians and listeners. Norwegian composer Aagaard-Nilsen has failed in a special way to add new elements to the cont...

This piece was commissioned by Nordhordland Brass Seminar in 1990 and written for a youth band. The title referes to a story from norse mythology. 'The Binding of the Wolf' is not a programmatic piec...