Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen : Partitions moyen

'Who can Sail without the Wind' is an old folk tune from Aland in Finland. I believe the song was one of the first one I learnt to sing and play on the guitar. The melancholic character of the song i...

Les airs folkloriques ont été collectés dans le cadre de la construction de la Norvège en tant que pays indépendant. Les violoneux et les chanteurs folkloriques apprenaient les uns des autres. Au débu...

Brout est une commande de Jane Westervik et du Krohnengen Brass Band pour KBB Ung. Un célèbre air folklorique norvégien est utilisé dans cette pièce amusante. Il s'agit d'un bouc qui a été volé et ab...

Poco Loco a été commandé par le Krohnengen Brass Band pour KBB Ung. L'idée était que des musiciens expérimentés puissent jouer avec des plus jeunes. Le morceau est construit autour d'un riff simple ma...

I was made aware of this beautiful wedding march in connection with a wedding in Lofoten, up north in Norway as I made an arrangement for quintet and altosax soloist. Later, I wrote an arrangement for...

Grand March by Ole Bull only existed as a piano arrangement of the three first parts. In 2010, when Ole Bulls two hundred years anniversary was celebrated in Norway, I made a reconstruction of the who...

Some of the pieces was written for Erlend, my oldest son, who has performed some of them in concerts. This pieces suites valved instruments very well, but of course they can be played on any instrumen...

Some of the pieces was written for Erlend, my oldest son, who has performed some of them in concerts. This pieces suites valved instruments very well, but of course they can be played on any instrumen...

Grim was commissioned by Sandviken Ungdomskorps in 1998. Grim is a folkloristic pastiche, but also with a jazz-flavoured inspiration. The piece ends with the folk-music played on top of a theme from a...

Fraxinus Excelsior is the latin name for the ash tree. The piece is written for a school band seated in Asker, a community with its name derived from the word 'ash'. The tree is also known in Norse my...

This work was commissioned by Midtun Skoles Musikkorps (Bergen) and their conductor Christian Breistein. This is one of the best school bands in Norway, consisting of members up to 19 years of age. Aa...

Draug is a sea-monster! The piece is not too difficult...Commissioned by the Torghatt-festival.

The Cock was originally written as an arrangement for brassband for Norwegian band Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag and their CD-release 'Light' in 1989. I chose the Norwegian tune 'Hanen stend pa stabburs...

This piece was commissioned by Borge Brass Band with support from Borge Sparebank in 1997. They suggested some folk tunes from Lofoten for the composer, from which he chose two of them. The two folk s...

Be Thou My Vision' is the eldest religious song from Irland used in Norway. The lyrics was originally written in Old Irish and translated to English in 1905 and versified in 1912. The text from 1912 i...

Hymn of Lofoten is composed by Dag Kajander from Kabelvag in Lofoten, a part of Northern Norway. Kajander is composer, singer and author of books for children. Hymn from Lofoten was written in 1979. T...

A short, soft, mellow piece of music, expresses the feeling you sometime have when thoughtfulness and calmness are more important. After working on a piece for choire using a poem called 'Nights have...

Arctic Funk might just as well have been a flashing sequel to a scene from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Popular music but with a difference, as indicated by the title. The work's quiet section...

A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...

After composing 'Introduction' in 1989 and 'Entrada' in 1990, Aagaard-Nilsen received a new commission for a 'concert-opener', this time from Tromsø Brass in 1991. Tromsø is a city in the north of Nor...

Arctic Funk might just as well have been a flashing sequel to a scene from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Popular music but with a difference, as indicated by the title. The work's quiet section...

A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...

Edvard Grieg composed this funeral march in memory of Rikard Nordraak who died i Berlin in 1866. The work present both pompous and magnificent thems as well as melancholic melodies. The solemn funera...

Edvard Grieg composed this funeral march in memory of Rikard Nordraak who died i Berlin in 1866. The work present both pompous and magnificent thems as well as melancholic melodies. The solemn funeral...

La pièce a été commandée par la Fédération norvégienne des orchestres Hordaland et le chef d'orchestre Arvid Anthun pour le 40e anniversaire de l'orchestre des jeunes Hordaland en 2021. La pièce est d...