Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen

A euphonium solo based on a Norwegian tune, Stille stund.

New Waves is a special composition. Although contemporary but still attractive to musicians and listeners. Norwegian composer Aagaard-Nilsen has failed in a special way to add new elements to the cont...

New Waves is a special composition. Although contemporary but still attractive to musicians and listeners. Norwegian composer Aagaard-Nilsen has failed in a special way to add new elements to the cont...

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...

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen's (1964) way of composing can be described as: uncompromising, wilful and contemporary. It is not surprising, therefore, that this occasionally causes a stir. In the middle of...

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen's (1964) way of composing can be described as: uncompromising, wilful and contemporary. It is not surprising, therefore, that this occasionally causes a stir. In the middle of...

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship, Bergen, February 198...

Bb Cornet 1, Bb Cornet 2, Bb Cornet 3, Bb Flugelhorn, Eb Horn, Bb Trombone, Bass Trombone, Bb Euphonium, Eb Bass and Percussion

Fest was commissioned by Hardanger Musikkfest and first performed by Ullensvang Skulemusikklag in May 2002. This little overture was the first piece in a series of pieces for schoolband.

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...

Lead, Kindly Light is composed by the English composer Charles Henry Purday (1799-1885). This arrangement was originally written for Brass Band to Norwegian band Hj(o/rungavåg Brass. Purday was appoin...

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) composed six sonatas for organ. This collection of sonatas have been very important for the development of the repertoire for solo organ from the year they were...

When I was a music student in Bergen in the late 1980s, conductor, arranger, and educator Tom Brevik commissioned me to arrange two folk tune suites for all young bands. The idea behind the suites was...

Commissioned by the Norwegian Band Federation and Tom Brevik. Composed in 1991. The composer: 'Elegy and March was one of my first original compositions (no quotations, no folk-tunes) and it was one...

We associate a title like this with Norwegian national romantic music like the music of Edvard Grieg. In this piece, the melody used 'Sag du nokke til kjerringa mi', a traditional melody Grieg used in...

Commissioned by the Norwegian Band Federation and Tom Brevik. Composed in 1991. The composer: 'Elegy and March was one of my first original compositions (no quotations, no folk-tunes) and it was one...

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...