Per Nørgård

Preface / Programme NoteThe title is meant to suggest something playful, even childlike, but also something challenging and competitive. All these elements are part of sports, games and playing - and...

Winter Cantata / Vinterkantate (1976) by Per Nørgård for a variable ensemble of soloist, mixed choir and instruments (minimum: vocalist and organ). Programme Note: When in 1975 I had finished composin...

Version for Tenor Solo, Guitar, Two Choruses and Instrumentalists ad lib.

Between - Cello Concerto No. 1 - 3 movements for Violoncello and Orchestra, composed by Per Norgård in 1984-85. Premiered by Frances-Marie Uitti and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mi...

Momentum - Cello Concerto No. 2 for Violoncello Solo and Chamber Orchestra by Per Norgård.

Tjampuan (1992) - 'Where the Rivers meet' - 6 Movements for Violin and Cello by Per Nørgård. Programme Note: Any nature phenomenon with a character of its own - a bat cave, a very old banja tree etc,...

Remembering Child - Version For Violin Solo, Violoncello Solo And Orchestra by Per Norgård (2015). To be premiered by Peter Herresthal (violin) and Jakob Kullberg (cello) with Bergen Philharmonic on J...

Per Norgard PIANO CONCERTO 'Concerto in due Tempi' was composed 1994-95 and dedicated to Per Salo, the pianist who also gave the world premiere on May 5, 1996 with the Danish National Radio Symphony O...

This is the 2013 version (reduced strings) of Per Nørgård's Remembering Child - Viola concerto No. 1 (1986) - Two Movements for Viola Solo (or Cello solo) and Chamber Orchestra. Programme Note: The ti...

Recall - Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra by Per Nørgård. Reduced version (1977). I. Cántico Antico II. Villanesca III. Rondino. Programme note Recall was composed as a tr...

There were wild oats And the soil was black But sparkled When the sun was out The air sharp in the nostrils Hard to define Somewhere between knife and coal and Acid and that special light and sweet Wh...

Voyage Into the Golden Screen for Chamber Orchestra is a complex, experimental work by Danish composer Per Nørgård that has been of elemental important in the composer's work. In the 1960's, Nørgård c...

Composed between 1972-1975, Norgard's Symphony No. 3 is an orchestral work in two movements. Score. Duration ca. 50 minutes.

Work for Orchestra dating from 1976.

Indischer Roosengaarten und Chineesischer Hexensee. Work for Orchestra dating from 1981.

Per Norgard. CANTICA CONCERTANTE is based on CANTICA for cello and piano 1977The present orchestral version was edited by Steve Ferrein collaboration with the composer. Orchestra: 1 Flute db. Piccolo,...

Program note TRIBUTES - ALBUM FOR STRINGS (1994-95)I: FOUR OBSERVATIONS - FROM AN INFINTE RAPPORT - hommage a Bartok (1995)II: OUT OF THIS WORLD - hommage a Lutoslawski (1994)III: VOYAGE INTO THE BROK...

Full score for Per Norgard's cho-Zone I-III set for Percussion duo. The three movements are Resonances, Re-Percussion, Reminder.

TRIBUTE TO BALI is a 5-6 minutes piece for 3 percussionists, but also the original version for piano solo under the title ''Many returns to Bali'' might be called a percussion piece (the piano being a...

Programme Note Zigzag percussion sextet (1981)ZIGZAG (1981, earlier entitled just SEXTET) is the second of my three percussion sextets (the other being RONDO (1964) and SQUARE AND ROUND (TWO DANCES) (...

A piece for two percussionists composed and dedicated to Safri Duo, who premiered it at the Numus Festival in May 1991. The basic idea of the piece lies in the continuous re-verberation effects betwee...

6 SONGS from Opus 14, with Danish and English Words - to texts by Danish poets: 1. Vinternat/Winter Night (Jens August Schade) 2. Pa Himmelbjerget/On the Himmelberg (Jens August Schade) 3. Landskab/La...

Toccata - Libra (1973) composée par Per Nørgård

Fragtment af Mariahymne fra det 13. århundrede Tekst: Anonym, på dansk ved ole Sarvig