SKU: HL.14002290
ISBN 9788759859087. Danish.
Anders Brodsgaard JOKER, ATTACCA and REQUIEM'Joker' was inspired by Keith Jarret's piano style, parti-cularly as it unfolds in his famous concerts of solo improvisation. The title comes from the fact that a kind of 'joker effect' is built-in in the rhythmic play which disturbs the 'arithmetical problem' and forces the music to continue everytime a four-layered polyrhythm is about to come out.'Attacca' is a wild(ly) uncontrolled outburst, which startsin the highest layers of cloud of four rows of overtones and gradually falls down in a more differentiated diatonic domain.'Requiem' was composed in the memory of my father and the piece is about 'hearing voices'.
SKU: HL.14014710
ISBN 9788759859650. Danish.
Per Norgard's Hedda Gabler - Incidental Music and Suite (1993) for Viola, Harp and Piano. Programme note The music was composed for the BBC production of Henrik Ibsens's famous play “Hedda Gabler”. For the production the director Deborah Warner changed the location from Bergen, Norway to Dublin - two cities with many things in common, both in size and atmosphere. All the movements are played attacca, as one movement, and the reason that I accepted this incidental music to be performed as a concert piece is that it has a unity - decided by Deborah Warner and me - always following the character of Hedda. In Fiona Shaw's' interpretation Hedda Gabler isjust as ruthless as Ibsen created her - but also deeply felt, understood and shown as a victim of the suppressed role of women in the Victorian age. Therefore the associations to the salon music of the era are coloured with a strong expressionistic expression - the music being entirely created from the inner universe of the main character Hedda. Per Norgard (1993) .
