Wilhelm-Hansen

En dag ringede telefonen hos Ole Hyltoft. Det var komponistenFinn Jørgensen som forfatteren aldrig før havde talt med. – Jeg har lavet en melodi til dit digt Efterårsblæst som du bragte i Politiken i søndags sagde Finn Jørgensen. – Vil du høre den? Det blev begyndelsen til et samarbejde mellem komponist ogforfatter som er fortsat siden. For det viste sig at vi to havde samme umiddelbare modtagelighed for naturens små og store undere. Den samme glade munterhed og humor. Den samme taknemlighed over for den rigdom naturen begunstiger os med. Den samme ærbødighed for naturensstorhed men også glæden ved forløsningen i en frimodig latter. En af folkekirkens præster sagde engang at Ole Hyltofts årstidsdigtevar en naturens andagt. Men i så fald en andagt uden mange forordninger og reskripter. Det udvalg af vores sange som Wilhelm Hansens forlag her præsenterer har stor spændvidde. Fra det frisindede humør til poesiens sammenbinding af alt levende med det guddommelige.- Ole Hyltoft Finn Jørgensen

Asbjørn Schaathun TRIPLIS+ (1996-98). For mezzo-soprano percussion electric organ alto flute coranglais clarinet violin viola cello double-bass and piano.Programme noteTriplis+ consists of seven songs based on computer-manipulated text fragments from Wilhelm Müller’s ’Die schöne Müllerin’. The seven songs should be played without interruption:I) Warum nicht?II)Nicht so...III)AngstIV) Wohin?V) HeimatVI) StilleVII)Ruhig. The score of TRIPLIS+ has a long history. The whole project began as a piece for piano and mezzo DUALIS (1987) to which I added percussion instruments to the vocal and piano parts which was deeply unsatisfying. (I also suggested certain ways of making different versions of the piece a so-called ’open score’ but this was even worse...) From the ruins of this piece I carved out a new DUALIS (1991) using the same material but with no percussion instruments added and in the form of a traditional ’frozen’ score.In 1993 I was asked to include a separate percussion part for a trio-version of my first undertakings of DUALIS. In close collaboration with the Cikada Trio I created a new version TRIPLIS (1993) which then in turn was taken as a point of departure for an extended version of the piece called TRIPLIS+ (1996-99). In this ’version integrale’ I - due to the requirements of the commission - added an ensemble of 8 instruments sometimes elaborating material from the mezzo-line sometimes contradicting or commenting upon it. The piano has a special role in both TRIPLIS+ and TRIPLIS; functioning as a kind of ’libro’ the piano textures which have the feel of an accompanying part are played ad lib throughout the work. In this way the pianist can change the actual dramatical flow of the piece.The first performance of TRIPLIS+ took place in the Bjergsted Music Centre in Stavanger Norway in April 1999 with

Noget om musik - fra rørfløjte til symfoniorkester. Aage Hansens klassiske indføring i instrumenternes historie - ledsaget af en lang række illustrationer.

A stunning choral work by Danish post-romantic Carl Nielsen. This 1927 composition is for unaccompanied SATB mixed chorus.

Piano Reduction-This work for Soloist Choir and Orchestra was composed in 1854 and takes inspiration from the Danish folk-ballad Elverskud. This is a reduction for Choir and Soloist with Piano accompaniment.