Biography

W O R L D   P R E M I E R E
September 19th 2012 - Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland - Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra - dir. John Storgårds.
Order from Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, dedicated to John Storgårds.


N O T E S
The first movement opens with sculptural rising and falling scales. Visually the sound may call to mind, say, spirals or ziggurats (temple towers). Brisk music leads to the climax of the movement.


The second movement is slow and sensually melodious and has three interludes of greater timbral melodic action.


The third movement begins very restlessly but towards the climax the tempo gradually begins to accelerate. An oscillating pianissimo murmur ends the movement – and the symphony.
Per Nørgård (2012)