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- Per Nørgård (arr. Hans Abrahamsen)
Brænding (Surf) (1992)
(Surf)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
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- 5 min
- Hans Abrahamsen
- 1st December 2026, Walter Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
Programme Note
The original version of SURF (in Danish "Brænding") for small ensemble is from 1983. In 1992, for a ”Nørgård 60 years” concert, the composer Hans Abrahamsen made a new version – for sinfonietta.
Nørgård writes about the composition:
SURF is a short piece, 5-6 minutes, commissioned by the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende in 1983 for the final concert in their yearly Chamber Music Contest (for teenagers). The ensemble then – consisting of the finalists - was two flutes, clarinets, horn, piano and accordion).
Together with my work for sinfonietta “Prelude to Breaking” the present “Surf” is the nearest I have come to tone painting in music, here the raising and falling of waves – their roars and final dissolution into silence.
Per Nørgård (1992)
Please click 'More Info' for details about Per Nørgård's Surf, for large ensemble.
Nørgård writes about the composition:
SURF is a short piece, 5-6 minutes, commissioned by the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende in 1983 for the final concert in their yearly Chamber Music Contest (for teenagers). The ensemble then – consisting of the finalists - was two flutes, clarinets, horn, piano and accordion).
Together with my work for sinfonietta “Prelude to Breaking” the present “Surf” is the nearest I have come to tone painting in music, here the raising and falling of waves – their roars and final dissolution into silence.
Per Nørgård (1992)
Please click 'More Info' for details about Per Nørgård's Surf, for large ensemble.
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