… is not as bright as it may sound. The music more moves on nightly excursions. Sometimes even with and air of nightmare …
Read more>>… are the final words from a poem by Hermann Hesse. The poem is one of Hesse’s last, and the music is some of Mogens Christensen’s first …
Read more>>Directly translated, Micromiti, mean small myths, and the work may be understood as a number of small stories linked together …
Read more>>The French text is partly anonymous, partly written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Read more>>… arose from the words Bach – bagateller – attacca, because the three movements are played attacca …
Read more>>This small composition is for three sisters, and is in three movements suitable for less experienced pupils
Read more>>Teksten til disse tre sange for ligestemmigt kor er skrevet af Piet Hein. Den musikalske stil er let og helt i pagt med teksten
Read more>>As a contrast to the poems in Pessimisticum, the motet texts radiate “whiteness” and redemption …
Read more>>9 Dansebagateller for blokfløjte og guitar kan høres som variationer over en gammel bryllupsmelodi fra Himmerland.
Read more>>Recorder concerto with the subtitle ornitologic scherzo – which gives a hint to the piece’s content and idea …
Read more>>Just like allegro, adagio has som additional meanings: cautious, silent, meticulous, hushed. Those qualities are examined in this piece …
Read more>>The work focuses on sound. The title Aksara refers to a language phenomenon, where one letter may exist solely by force of its sound
Read more>>… a “go” at “coaxing” sounds out of painter Per Kirkeby’s ceiling – and wall painting of the same name at Aarhus University …
Read more>>The title was taken from a poem by Rilke, in which was an angel which remenbered everything that human beings tend to forget: The silent angel
Read more>>… is an arrangement for solo instruments of one of the songs from Systema Naturae. Suitable for beginners
Read more>>… makes part of a number of pieces with inspiration from zodiacs
Read more>>Aquarius eclipticae is the 11th movement in Liber Eclipticae, and finds its inspiration in the zodiac of Aquarius
Read more>>Aquarius Funiensis er en forkortet og bearbejdet udgave for kammerensemble af den tilsvarende sats fra Liber Eclipticae
Read more>>… is a very abbreviated one-part version of Aries Eclipticae. Available in a version for oboe and one for recorder
Read more>>Aries is part of the cycle Circulus Stellae, consisting of 4 orchestra movements with inspiration form astrologic zodiacs
Read more>>Aries eclipticaeis the first movement in the piano cycle Liber Eclipticae, and finds its inspiration in the zodiac of Aries. The Motto is: Forwards!
Read more>>Aries Funiensis Aries Funiensis is an abbreviated and revised version for chamber ensemble of the equivalent movement from Liber Eclipticae
Read more>>This opus 4 is characterized by sharp contrasts – caused by Otto Gelsted’s poem Mennesket/The Human Being
Read more>>After several flutists have shown an interest in the recorder piece of Birds of a Spring Night, this version for flauto traverso arrived …
Read more>>Birds of a Winter Night is more pensive than the cheerful and voluptious Birds of a Spring Night and Birds of a Summer Night …
Read more>>… in the foggy autumn night with is gradual leave fall and necrosis, the birds have nearly grown silent …
Read more>>Her spiller fuglene en mere afdæmpet rolle. Til gengæld synes andre bevingede væsner at have overtaget det musikalske rum: de travle, summende bier …
Read more>>The title has a somewhat double meaning, since the word candenza may both refer to virtouso passages in a solo concerto, and to something descending
Read more>>This is a cadenza for piano with both Mozart-elements and modern tone language
Read more>>Cancer eclipticae is the 4th movement in Liber Eclipticae, and finds its inspiration in the zodiac Cancer. Motto: You have to deserve the right to get to know me!
Read more>>Dette klaverstykke er 10. sats i Liber Eclipticae og finder sin inspiration i stjernetegnet stenbuk. Motto: Gennem trængsler til stjernerne.
Read more>>A piano concertino in one movement. On certain occasions, a single and simple melodic idea arises …
Read more>>All music for this piece was created by 70 children from Copenhagen schools – however, they did not piece it together, structure it and orchestrate it
Read more>>Circulus Stellae består af 4 orkestersatser og er en cyklus af små karakterstykker med dyrekredsen som en slags udgangspunkt …
Read more>>… was written for a music competition for music schools. The piece won the prize for best work …
Read more>>The best way into this work is a poem by Lene Henningsen, THE STONE, from her collection Siden som stjerne (Later as a star)
Read more>>A virtuoso work for flute solo, which exploits all effects of the instrument … multiphonics, noise sounds and melodies
Read more>>… the violent, sounds close to noise, the tumultaric, a strange rhythmic-metric character. And the more delicacy in the delicate passages …
Read more>>The crystalline in the form of overwhelming sound massives, and light in the form of high, wintercold, and static sounds weave in and out of each other….
Read more>>Denne lied for sopran og klaver er skrevet til et digt af Claus Gahrn
Read more>>In this work the thought of the folded dream is expressed. As nymphs living in threes, dryads are themselves a sort of dream beings. Dream beings dreaming …
Read more>>… is a good example of the interest in the sounds of dream, which fascinated Mogens Christensen so much during the years around 1990
Read more>>… is the last one in a series of 3 violin sonatas. One differs with its cruelty from the two others, but also, at the same time, sums them all up
Read more>>… although this 1st violin concerto moves through many different landscapes, a dream conceived melody is the whole backbone of this work
Read more>>… with the original aboriginees, dreamtime meant a constant process of creation. A flight of the thought in tones over this conception of life was quite obvious
Read more>>During the work, this arrangement of sounds searched in direction of the Australian didgeridoo. As the piece furthermore moves in large circles, the title was hard to avoid …
Read more>>Echoes of Fragments may be taken literally: As an echo of the violin solo Dreamless Fragments. But there are more mirrors in the work than just one echo …
Read more>>… the title comes from a gregorian alleluia sequence for Twelfth Night: Vidimus stellam eius in Oriente … We see his star in the East …
Read more>>The closeness in mood to Gabriel García Márquez’ short story of the same name from 1961 is obvious and not accidental …
Read more>>… here many expressions are looked into: the quiet and the brushed up, the thorned and the beautiful, the close and the longing …
Read more>>… it is full of tones – or is it elves? In the beginning, but gradually the activity is subdued to give way to something else …
Read more>>Et incarnatus est is a piece for organs with strong lungs – great chords, high volume – and for organists with fast fingers, flying feet and a big heart …
Read more>>… as the name nearly indicates, it is a perpetuum mobile – an eternity machine – with a constant stream of fast tones …
Read more>>… playing with rhythm and sound. Playing against the organ – and together with. Like two equal partners, and not like an organ concerto …
Read more>>… fascinationen af ild og spejle transformeret til lyd. Blokfløjte og accordeon spejler hinanden, så der skabes en illusion af et helt tredje instrument …
Read more>>The English poems were written by Emily Dickinson: LOVE is anterior to life/Posterior to death/ Initial of creation and/ The exponent of breath …
Read more>>This song for soprano, piano, and guitar was written to a poem by Danish author Claus Gahrn
Read more>>To text by Danish author Sophus Claussen. Both author and composer are fascinated by the eastern mysticism and spiritual thinking
Read more>>Version of Morgenhav (Morning Sea) for soprano and organ or for soprano and piano. Text by Danish author Ole Sarvig
Read more>>A small simple piece for piano – built over a song from the opera Systema Naturae. The piece is easy to access for beginners
Read more>>… findes i flere versioner, som henvender sig til både amatører og professionelle. Denne version er for 4 st. pigekor
Read more>>… findes i flere versioner, som henvender sig til både amatører og professionelle. Denne version er for to lige stemmer og klaver
Read more>>Gemini is part of the cycle consisting of 4 orchestra movements with inspiration from astrologic zodiacs
Read more>>Gemini Eclipticae is the 3rd movement in Liber Eclipticae, and finds its inspiration in the zodiac Gemini. Motto: Now listen!
Read more>>Gemini Funiensisis an abbreviated and revised version for chamber ensemble of the equivalent movement from Liber Eclipticae
Read more>>Inspired by Danish author Johs. V. Jensen’s strange, overlooked, but incredibly beautiful myth about Gura
Read more>>Hachighaeshi relates to the Japanese shakuhachi-tradition, Japanese bamboo flute, and is for an untraditional combination of instruments
Read more>>Bag denne mærkelige titel gemmer der sig en allegro-trio for saxofon, violin og klaver.
Read more>>… findes i flere versioner, som henvender sig til både amatører og professionelle. Dette er en enkel version for 2 stemmer med klaver
Read more>>This small song for soprano and small ensemble was created one dark night around 3 o’clock. Hölderlin’s poem gave the impulse to start as a composer
Read more>>The debut work, built on a poem by Hölderlin, is a soundwise mirroring of the poem, about man’s longing for another world
Read more>>Increasing Dream Landscape er en udgave for solofløjte af sidste sats i blæserkvintetten Bachatellattacca .
Read more>>… she saw herself in the mirrors with closed eyelids, and immediately died. She died, killed by the letters from the past and from the future simultaneously …
Read more>>… is virtuoso music inspired by the folia of the Baroque. The work uses the qualities of the folia – for three instruments
Read more>>… arose from the imagination that – with wide open eyes and at full conscience – one lets oneself fall deep down through a greenish sea …
Read more>>The music in this 2nd violin concerto sways between magic-introvert surfaces, and strongly rhythmical – nearly dancing – parts
Read more>>… the imagination that even one of the world’s strongest stones, the diamond, was, in fact, once in the early times, liquid, – provided good ideas for this piece
Read more>>Dette klaverstykke er 5. sats i Liber Eclipticae og finder sin inspiration i stjernetegnet Løven. Motto: Jeg er kongen!
Read more>>A collection of 12 pieces, where each one refers to one of classic astrology’s zodiacs
Read more>>Libra eclipticae is the 7th movement in Liber Eclipticae, and finds its inspiration in the zodiac of Libra. The Motto is: Look to both sides!
Read more>>Concerto for harp and percussion perhaps like a kind of Beauty and the Beast. And this is how it appears – most of the time …
Read more>>A work for organ and electronics. An easy-to-use stand-alone-patch is developed for both Mac and Windows, available for download.
Read more>>Written for the Euterpe Ensemble, when they wanted to perform both the old 17th century dances and a modern version
Read more>>Chamber work for recorder, guitar and electronics – Summer’s melancholic birds’ callling …
Read more>>This piece is composed according to the japanese shakuhashi-tradition, bamboo flute, with European approaches …
Read more>>A collection of four season pieces, which may be performed singularly or in total
Read more>>… ideen opstod i fangehullet på det finske Tavastehus slot en varm augustdag. Genfærd og ånder stod i kø – ja ligefrem talte i munden på hverandre …
Read more>>Recorder concerto written as an hommage to Danish composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Read more>>The text was written by Norwegian author André Bjerke who has a certain way of playing with the language
Read more>>The deep double bass and the multi-coloured percussion try, all the way through this piece, to find a mutual sound foothold
Read more>>… a key to listening might be to follow this small piece’s voyage from overwhelming energy to a silent final flute solo …
Read more>>Passatoni means something like: Let the tones pass. The piece is available in two versions. Both may well be played by amateur orchestras
Read more>>The viola d’amore is an “extinct” instrument. Here it is combined with percussion instruments in a dialogue
Read more>>Dette stykke for sinfonietta bevæger sig ad uransalige stier gennem voldsomme, blide og helt tavse landskaber
Read more>>A “departure tribute” to the century of value nihilism, building on the 3 darkest psalms by Ole Sarvig
Read more>>Pisces is part of the cycle Circulus Stellae, consisting of 4 orchesra movements with inspiration from astrologic zodiacs.
Read more>>… is part of the piano cycle of Liber Ecliptcae. Pisces is the last zodiac, and the first of the 12 pieces to be written…
Read more>>Pisces Funiensis is an abbreviated and revised version for chamber ensemble of the equivalent movement from Liber Eclipticae
Read more>>The text to this work for choir is Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing
Read more>>… finds its inspiration in a myth by Danish author Johs. V. Jensen. When finding a small stone figure imaginations takes off and flies …
Read more>>The crystalline is the inspiration. This does not prevent the work from being full of rhythmical variation and … surprises
Read more>>The work appears in a fairytale-like mood interrupted by more forwards-thrusting parts …
Read more>>Sagitarius eclipticae is the 9th movement in Liber Eclipticae and finds its inspiration in the zodiac Sagitarius
Read more>>A small simple work in two movements, suitable for oboe pupils with some experience
Read more>>… is a lively chamber music piece, suitable for music school pupils with some years of practice
Read more>>Scorpio eclipticae is the 8th movement in Liber Eclipticae and finds its inspiration in the zodiac Scorpio
Read more>>The music exploits – just like Carl Nielsen: Espansiva – the possibilities of stretching and shrinking the musical material
Read more>>These 4 small piano silly-pieces in a gay style are, to a certain extent, a piano version of Norwegian Nursery Rhymes
Read more>>En lille vrøvleglad sommersang for kor. Sommerord findes i versioner for amatører (2 eller tre lige stemmer plus klaver ad lib.) og professionelle (4-stemmig a cappella).
Read more>>The instrumentation of flute, guitar, and cello more or less call for something easy-going and flexible
Read more>>… available in several versions for both amateurs and professionals. This is a simple version for 2-3 equal parts and piano.
Read more>>This version of Summerzauber for three flutes is a revision of the original work for flute and guitar
Read more>>… small instrumental smalltalk on a musical arabesque. Many things are said, – of limited importance. However, after some time, a little thoughtfulness appears.
Read more>>Taurus eclipticae is the 2nd movement in Liber Eclipticae, and finds its inspiration in the zodiac Taurus
Read more>>Princess Ateh is a mysterious person, appearing in all sorts of shapes, but nobody can work out the substance …
Read more>>The essence in the legends about Adam Ruhani may be summarized into a motto: Time is just the part of eternity that comes too late
Read more>>Originally written because a person born in Cancer had invited his circle of friends to his birthday party
Read more>>… is the place in Astrid Lindgren’s The Brothers Lionheart, that parts human beings from the dragon living behind a river
Read more>>Silent and, at times, rather remote music. The title comes from the fact that part of the music is a development of the piece Zodiac of Cancer
Read more>>… two small pieces written over a couple of quotations from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Read more>>The two gay songs are, in spite of their fine titles, about irritating insects: Moskitoes and winter flies
Read more>>Virgo eclipticae is the 6th movement in Liber Eclipticae and finds its inspiration in the zodiac Virgo. Motto: Order!
Read more>>SOUND – not feelings nor moods. Whichever imaginations the music creates is of no interest. Sound and time …
Read more>>The Danish composer H.C. Lumbye’s Champagne Galop on speed: Stuffed with fun, lyric, grotesque, and absurd ideas
Read more>>… tries to catch all winter lights, ranging from the silent drop of snow, via introvert dusk mood to glittering masses of light from a low winter sun
Read more>>… in many ways a counterpart to Summerzauber. The style is “modern” with marked and abrups breaks in music, character, and dynamics …
Read more>>Strange exploitation of the instruments, mixtures of instruments and song voices contribute to throwing special upon this piece
Read more>>This piece has two movements: One short based on rhythm, and a somewhat longer one with obvious weft from Bruckner’s symphonic universe
Read more>>Behind the title lies an old Persian idea of time: the immediate time in hours, seconds, human being’s ages, and the cool untouched eternity: Zurvan
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