'Hamlet-Echos' vient du grand opéra 'Hamlet' dans laquelle Christian Jost interprète la tragédie de Shakespeare comme 'l'histoire d'un voyage surréaliste intérieur'. En ayant Hamlet chanter d'une voix féminine, Jost souligne la validité universelle de cette déclaration. Le bilinguisme intentionnel signifie dialogue intérieur d'Hamlet dans lequel la partie d'alto rejoint commentateur. / Violon, Cor Et Piano

Six Pieces for Horn Violin and Piano by Hans Abrahamsen. Programme Note  My ’6 Pieces for horn violin and piano’ was written in 1984 as a commission from the Danish Radio for a concert where Ligeti’s Horn Trio should receive its Danish premiere played by Danish musicians. My trio is based on my work ’Studies for Piano’. While I wrote these studies I tried to ’conjure up’ instrumental parts inside the piano movement. When I received the commission for a horn trio I turned to six of the studies and deepened them by ’screening them’ so that their partsand moods appeared in a clearer way. Furthermore I changed the order of the movements so a new unity appeared beginning with a steadyly hesitating ’Serenade’ in slow-motion followed by the ’Arabesque’ which hardly gets started before it stops. Then ’Blues’ a melancholy melody and ’Marcia Funebre’ like a fossilized picture with a dramatic threatening outburst ending with a quiet but majestic melody in violin and horn a melody that disappears in the chords of the piano. Before the last movement ’For the Children’ is a large ’Scherzo misterioso’. Hans Abrahamsen