"The music on this release is written over a period of 20 years, and all the works relate specifically to the past. An old piano, Richard Strauss' material in "Three Transfigurations", Richard Nordraak's indirect presence in "Funeral March in Memory of Edvard Grieg", and fragments from the archive in "Harmonium Repertoire", taken from harmonium orchestral parts in works by SchÃ¶nberg, Mahler, Strauss, Berg, and Bruckner. Some may find a nostalgic inclination. A sense of lost time, that everything was better before and so on. It is not untrue, but neither is it the whole truth, I would argue. I look at my own compositional work as a fundamentally optimistic project where the core of the activity is about relationships. I think music stands in relation to something, like a meeting, sometimes a confrontation, always in connection with people, the world, history - or a piano." (Lars Petter Hagen, composer)

Tracklist:

Paulines Piano I (Deep River [Trad.])
Three Transfigurations: I. Adagio Ma Non Troppo
Three Transfigurations: II. Etwas Fliessender
Three Transfigurations: III. Adagio, Tempo Primo
Harmonium Repertoire: I. Langsam
Harmonium Repertoire: II. Äusserst Langsam. Adagissimo
Harmonium Repertoire: III. Ziemlich Langsam
Harmonium Repertoire: VI. Lento
Harmonium Repertoire: V. Adagio. Sehr Feierlich Und Sehr Langsam
Sørgemarsj Over Edvard Grieg
Max F: Passage - Silence And Light Triptych: I. A Tower Of Absence
Max F: Passage - Silence And Light Triptych: II. Stairs To Unanswered Questions (Angels Keep Going Up And Down)
Max F: Passage - Silence And Light Triptych: III. A Garden Of Memories (A Thousand Unfinished Melodies)
Paulines Piano II (Maria Og Barnet [Trad.])

UPC: 7090020182124
Label: Lawo Classics
Release Date: 3.27.20
Format: CD

CIKADA - Harmonium Repertoir (CD)