Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen Noten für Blasorchester

'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...

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...

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...

Als ich in den späten 1980er Jahren Musikstudent in Bergen war, beauftragte mich der Dirigent, Arrangeur und Pädagoge Tom Brevik, zwei Volksliedsuiten für alle jungen Bands zu arrangieren. Die Idee hi...

Als ich in den späten 1980er Jahren Musikstudent in Bergen war, beauftragte mich der Dirigent, Arrangeur und Pädagoge Tom Brevik, zwei Volksliedsuiten für alle jungen Bands zu arrangieren. Die Idee hi...

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...

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen wrote this medley to the 1992-93 Concert season for trumpeter Helge Haukas of The Norwegian Defence Band region West located in Bergen (today Norwegian Navy Band Bergen). Hauka...

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

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Lead, Kindly Light is composed by the English composer Charles Henry Purday (1799-1885). This arrangement was originally written for Brass Band to Norwegian band Hj(o/rungav(aog Brass. Purday was appo...

Edvard Grieg composed this funeral march in memory of Rikard Nordraak who died i Berlin in 1866. The work present both pompous and magnificent thems as well as melancholic melodies. The solemn funera...

The titles of this three-movement work are abstractions where visual experiences are thought to be recreated as music, i.e. an abstract presentation of a motif, similar to an abstract image where one...

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...

The composer: A short concert-opener where I use Norwegian folk-tunes. I wanted to create a short musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore towards some people they wanted to fight down...

Pang ist eine Onimatopoesie, die die brutalen Kräfte beschreibt, die vom ersten Takt an entfesselt werden. Der Energiestrom setzt sich im gesamten Stück fort. Das Stück wurde 1998 vom Bispehaugen Ungd...

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...

Commissioned by the Royal Norwegian Navy Band. In 1911, the Australian pianist and composer (and friend of Edvard Grieg), Percy Grainger (1882-1961) went on a tour in Norway. He performed more than fo...