Ophelia Dances - Concerto for Sinfonietta and Accordion (2012) by Svend Hvidfelt Nielsen. Dedicated to and premiered by Bjarke Mogensen and rhus Sinfonietta. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk Programme note: 'Ophelia Dances' - What in the world should this mean Is the composer suggesting that he has made a sound track for a virtualperformance of Shakespeare's Hamlet Does Ophelia dance at all Or did the composer believe that Ophelia is beautifull and so is his music. He believes Maybe it is rather a way to make up forthe randomness and lack of coherence of his music No less than 12 movements has been schethed. If not this apparent mass of movements is also purely virtual.A shere gimmick as many of these movements are played attacca and movements VI-IX are played similtaniously simply tossed on top of one another!Well being the composer I should know. The closest I can get to an explanaition is however that to me the musichas a certain fragility that reminds me of this Ophelia of Hamlet.And in my music I hear her dance.Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen oktober 2012
