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- Per Nørgård
Hedda Gabler (1993)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
The music was composed for the BBC production of Henrik Ibsens´s famous play “Hedda Gabler”. For the production the director Deborah Warner changed the location from Bergen, Norway to Dublin – two cities with many things in common, both in size and atmosphere.
All the movements are played attacca, as one movement, and the reason that I accepted this incidental music to be performed as a concert piece is that it has a unity – decided by Deborah Warner and me – always following the character of Hedda. In Fiona Shaw´s´ interpretation Hedda Gabler is just as ruthless as Ibsen created her – but also deeply felt, understood and shown as a victim of the suppressed role of women in the Victorian age.
Therefore the associations to the salon music of the era are coloured with a strong expressionistic expression – the music being entirely created from the inner universe of the main character Hedda.
Per Nørgård (1993)
All the movements are played attacca, as one movement, and the reason that I accepted this incidental music to be performed as a concert piece is that it has a unity – decided by Deborah Warner and me – always following the character of Hedda. In Fiona Shaw´s´ interpretation Hedda Gabler is just as ruthless as Ibsen created her – but also deeply felt, understood and shown as a victim of the suppressed role of women in the Victorian age.
Therefore the associations to the salon music of the era are coloured with a strong expressionistic expression – the music being entirely created from the inner universe of the main character Hedda.
Per Nørgård (1993)
Media
Hedda Gabler: Haunted
Hedda Gabler: Exposed
Hedda Gabler: Deceived
Hedda Gabler: In Voice
Hedda Gabler: Hunter (Tour de force)
Hedda Gabler: Memory I
Hedda Gabler: Memory II
Hedda Gabler: "Sub rosa"
Hedda Gabler: Procession
Hedda Gabler: Lion and Lamb
Hedda Gabler: Hunter II
Hedda Gabler: Anticipation I
Hedda Gabler: Personal Souvenir
Hedda Gabler: Strange Lullaby
Hedda Gabler: Anticipation II - (Waltz - Intermezzo)
Hedda Gabler: Mask of Chopin (Nocturne in F Major)
Hedda Gabler: The Red Mask of Death