SKU: HL.278659

ISBN 9788759840597. 10.5x14.5x0.55 inches.

A Posthuman Guide to the Orchestra - for Siri and orchestra (2017). Commissioned by the the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. First Performance: Oslo, 03.05.2018, conducted by Eivind Aadland. Spiral-bound score.

SKU: HL.14036351

ISBN 9780711986121.

This work for orchestra was commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the BBC Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis in Tokyo, May 1997.

SKU: HL.14032192

ISBN 9788759858394. 12.0x16.5x0.78 inches. International (more than one language).

Symphony No. 6 for orchestra, 1997-99. Preface / Program Note:... with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day(New Testament, 2 Peter 3:8)My SYMPHONY NO. 6 was commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gteborg Symphony Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, to be premiered at the millenium 2000.The subtitle AT THE END OF THE DAY can be understood literally or it can mean when all is added up. However, in my opinion, nothing ever quite adds up, there is always something missing, any ending will be provisional ...This symphony appears to end only a few minutes into the first movement, the first passage, as the music fades away to almost-silence, after a start of flying colours. But then there is still something, a small motive (first heard in the initial sound-waves) which reappears, hesitant, but persistent, and this embryo is what leads on the musical progression. An agitated section of many instrumental voices comes next, until all the voices become obsessed with the same phrase, a see-saw motive based on thirds. This section evolves into almost martial ferocity, when broken off by a tutti descent into an extreme bass-world (a bass-world which actually permeates the whole symphony, emplyoing instruments that I have never used before: double-bass tuba, double-bass trombone, double-bass clarinet, and bass flute).The second movement, the second passage, apparently takes off where the first passage ended, but now the events are more ambiguous, and the same music may be perceived as fast-moving one moment and slow-moving the next. This section is a kind of passacaglia, the characteristic baroque bass-variation.Without a break follows the third and last passage, in a contrasting high register. The music is rhythmically knotty as well as freely flowing. As in the beginning of the symphony, a never-ending descent or fall breaks off the events, and at the very end a delta of new beginnings, of other worlds, is revealed ....The symphony is dedicated to Helle, my wife. - Per Norgard.

SKU: HL.287422

Ten Sinfonias for Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2010. Co-commissioned by Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk.

SKU: HL.14018903

Danish.

Les Cloches De Monsigneur Grieg (1993-99) for small Symphony Orchestra by Asbjorn Schaathun. 'Edvard Grieg's 'Bell Ringing' for Piano Op.54, No.6 ... seen through Monsigneur A. Schaathun's half shut eyes...' Commissioned by the The Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

Les Cloches De Monsigneur Grieg (1993-99) for small Symphony Orchestra by Asbjørn Schaathun.

'Edvard Grieg's 'Bell Ringing' for Piano Op.54, No.6... seen through Monsigneur A. Schaathun's half shut eyes...'

Commissioned by the The Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

SKU: HL.14013430

ISBN 9788759869857. 12.25x16.5x0.678 inches. English-Danish.

Score.

SKU: HL.244904

8.25x12.0x0.508 inches.

Quilting, co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is my first stand alone work for orchestraand is loosely inspired by the American tradition of quilt making. I composed Quilting while living most of last year in Paris.During my time there, I thought a lot about what it means to compose symphonic music as a young American in the 21st century, when so many of the many masterworks which are programmed year in and out by orchestras across the country are European. I considered which artistic traditions defined the American 19th-century. I began to think of the American crafts-tradition of quilting as a foilto the high-art tradition of European orchestral composition. As the score for my new work began to take shape, I started thinking about the manuscript itself as an object, its vertical and horizontal planes create a kind of patterned geometry of their own. Visually the way a musical score is woven together like patchwork brought to mind quilts and the great American tradition of quilting. I imagined about how conducting an orchestra can feellike stitching a piece together, or sewing together a large number of musical ideas and musicians into a coherent and transcendent whole. Quilting was an integral part of American vernacular in the 18th and 19th centuries, the African-American quilting tradition is especially fascinating, and the quilts tell the stories of the women and communities who made them. The names of the quilt patterns themselves can have their own sense of narrative: 'jacobs ladder', 'drunkards path', 'solomon's puzzle', and (my favorite for its relevance to this piece) 'the road to California. - Bryce Dessner.