The works should have been playedon last month's Avgarde, but because of illness it had to be postponed.

Winter Fragments is an acknowledgement of the festival where the piece was premiered, "Sounds of winter and today" (le Festival Sons d'hiver et d'aujourd'hui), and the experience of a genuine winter the year it was written. The composer lives north of New York, a region of lakes and small mountains. The composer says: "For the most part the sun shone brightly and its intense light bathed the house, which is open to nature all round. Sometimes a violent storm would arise, followed by silence, and the blinding light would come back. Perhaps the "fragments of winter" are there."

 

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Musicians:

Halldis Rønning, dirigent
Ingela Øien, fløyte
Håkon Nilsen, klarinett
Geir Atle Stangenes, fiolin
Agnese Rugevica, cello
Jarle Rotevatn, piano
Knut Christian Jansson, synth 

 

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