Winter Fragments is an acknowledgement of the festival where the piece is to be created "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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