Partituras de Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen para orquesta de viento

'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...

Cuando era estudiante de música en Bergen, a finales de los 80, el director, arreglista y educador Tom Brevik me encargó dos suites de melodías folclóricas para todas las bandas jóvenes. La idea detrá...

Cuando era estudiante de música en Bergen, a finales de los 80, el director, arreglista y educador Tom Brevik me encargó dos suites de melodías folclóricas para todas las bandas jóvenes. La idea detrá...

Las melodías folclóricas se recopilaron como parte de la construcción de Noruega como país independiente. Los violinistas y cantantes aprendían unos de otros. A principios del siglo XIX se utilizaron...

Brout fue un encargo de Jane Westervik y la Krohnengen Brass Band para KBB Ung. En esta divertida pieza se utiliza una famosa melodía popular noruega. Trata de un macho cabrío que fue robado y sacrif...

Poco loco fue un encargo de la Krohnengen Brass Band para KBB Ung. La pieza gira en torno a un riff pegadizo pero sencillo, y los interludios contienen los pasajes más exigentes. En español, "poco loc...

Ligt a Small Candle se publicó en CD en 2006 y ha acumulado más de un millón de reproducciones digitales en los últimos años. La canción ha sido acogida especialmente por escuelas primarias y guarderí...

'Introduction' is a short concert opener. I quote a couple of Norwegian Folk Tunes to make a musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore to face a battle. They used to drink something mad...

In November 2014, the conductor Peter Szilvay, on behalf of Christiania Wind Ensemble (Oslo), commissioned a piece from me. He was looking for a quite short piece of music, effective, intense and danc...

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...

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...

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/rungav(aog Brass. Purday was appo...

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...

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...

The composer: A short concert-opener where I use Norwegian folk-tunes. I wanted to create a short musical picture of the Vikings running from the seashore towards some people they wanted to fight down...

Pang es una onimatopeya que describe las brutales fuerzas desatadas desde el primer compás. El torrente de energía continúa a lo largo de toda la pieza. La pieza fue encargada por Bispehaugen Ungdomsk...

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...

The piece was commissioned by Manger Musikklag in 1990. It is structured as a series of long crescendi towards the dynamic climax in the last bars. Awakening also pointed out a new direction for me wh...

Rendezvous was commissioned by Krohnengen Brass Band for their 50th Anniversary in 2019. This version for Concert Band was scored autumn 2020. "Rendezvous" is devided into three sections. Each section...