Dedicated 2

Den ‘svære’ toer har især været svær på grund af Corona/Covid 19 nedlukningen, hvor det meste af musiklivet lå i dvale og alle lokaler, som egner sig til optagelser, var hermetisk lukkede. Men endelig, i sommeren 2021, kunne vi gå i gang. De fleste optagelser har fundet sted i Frelsens Hærs lokale, Templet, på Frederiksberg, med afstikkere til Sankt Markus Kirke (The Sound of Bronze af Fuzzy) og Stavnsholtkirken (Weekend af John Frandsen). Musikken spænder vidt fra Fuzzys stykke for to lurer og elektronik til Søren Barfods ‘Ingemars Tango’ for 10 messingblæsere og slagtøj. Fra Finn Saverys to trioer for henholdsvis tre trompeter (Icy Fire) og tre tromboner (Winter Sun) til John Frandsens halsbrækkende og virtuose ‘Weekend’ for traditionel messingkvintet.

1. Iron Lips

For four trumpets A pleasant power presentation by the trumpet section of The Royal Danish Orchestra. Virtuoso tonguing technique and smooth cantabile playing. This piece deserves to be a trumpet ensemble classic. Iron Lips premiered in 2006 in Soundstreams' Toronto Fanfare Project, part of the soundaXis festival that explored the acoustics of buildings with unique architecture. Soundstreams celebrated brass music old and new and featured premieres by composers from Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

Musicians: Jonas Hojen Wiik, Jeppe Lindberg Nielsen, Nikolaj Viltoft, Lars Husum

2. Ingemar's Tango (1434)
Soren Barfoed 1950

10-piece brass ensemble with percussion. Royal Danish Brass 'Ingemar's Tango' is an homage to the Swedish pianist Ingemar Aronsson, says the composer and flute player, Soren Barfoed. Ingemar played for many years in the Promenade Orchestra of the Copenhagen Tivoli Gardens together with Soren Barfoed, and in the breaks, they often talked about life and music - and music life of course. Through the winter season, Ingemar was a busy pianist on cruise ships around the world and he told Soren that the greatest music experience he had ever had, was in a tango-café in Buenos Aires, Argentina, homeland of the tango. That is why Ingemar well deserves his tango, here in a version for 10 brass players and percussion.

Premiered by Royal Danish Brass in the Furese Music Society on November 16th, 2016.
Musicians: Jonas Hojen Wik, piccolo trumpet, Kristian Noe, trumpet, László Molnár, trumpet, Dorthe Zielke, trumpet, Dominika Piwkowska, French-born, Keld Jorgensen, trombone, Lars Hastrup, trombone,

Robert Holmsted, trombone

Jakob Sandberg, bass trombone

Christian Bay, tuba,

Per Jensen, percussion

Producer: Morten Mogensen

Technique: Torben Krogh

3. Maren o æ won

Pauli i Sandagerdi -1955
Brass quintet The Faroese composer Pauli i Sandagerdi claims to be a mixed personality covering a fisherman, a physicist, and a composer, known to use the waves from the sea and the slow rhythm from the Faroese dance in his music. My Maren o a Woun' is a hymn for Alberto Giacometti's 'Woman with Chariot, says the composer. The sculpture, bought by the municipality in the 1960s, happened to be so valuable, that it must be put away for the night. Therefore a cave under the paving stones has been built, where she is kept overnight to save her from vandalism. The music describes what the chariot girl experiences from meeting the first daylight in the morning and through the day until she
disappears into her subterranean chamber at sunset.

4. 'Hymn to Alberto Giacometti's Woman with Chariot' (2009) 12:141
Naji Hakim -1955

Brass Ouintet 'Hymn to Alberto Giacometti's Woman with Chariot' was composed in 2009 to honor Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Woman with Chariot. The piece is based on a Danish song 'Jyden han er stark og see' related to the area of Holstebro, melody by H.C. Simonsen, 1846, text by Steen Steensen Blicher, 1846. The humoristic quotation of the verse at the end of the score 'goer ed op, à goer ed nier' (It goes up, and it goes down) figures both the melodic contours and the moving up (at day) and down (at night) of Giacometti's sculpture placed on a lift in front of Holstebro's old town hall. Premiered by Royal Danish Brass on July 4th, 2010 in the Fuglsang Music Society. The score is published by United Music Publishing Ltd.

Musicians: Jonas Hojen Wiik, trumpet, Lars Ejlif Hansen, trumpet,
Henning Hansen, French horn, Keld Jorgensen, trombone,
Christian Bay, tuba

Producer: Keld Jorgensen
Technique: Torben Krogh

5. Icy Fire (1978) 15:58]
Finn Savery 1933

For three trumpets Commissioned by The Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra in 1978, but
never performed in public. Finn Savery studied with his father C.M. Savery at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music (1953-60). He also attended courses in Darmstadt, New York, and Boston. Finn Savery is loyally and undogmatic- ically sensitive to different styles of music and his compositions occupy an area between Western European modernism, tonal music, folk music, and various kinds of jazz.

Musicians: Dorthe Zielke, trumpet, Kristina Schjelde Husum, trumpet, Susanne Vibek Svanekier, trumpet
(aka ensemble Air de Bravoure)
Producer: Keld Jorgensen

6. Winter Sun

Finn Savery 1933
For three trombones
Commissioned by The Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra in 1978. Premiered in January 1994 by Royal Danish Brass trombone players at that time, Torbjörn Kroon, Keld Jorgensen, and Jan Mortensen.

Musicians: Kasper Smedegaard Thaarup, alto trombone, Jonathan Goodwin, tenor trombone, Tobias Biörs, bass trombone

Producer: Keld Jorgensen
Technique: Torben Krogh
Technique: Torben Krogh

7 - 9. Weekend

John Frandsen 1956

Royal Danish Brass

Three movements for Brass quintet

1. Friday [2:46]
2. Saturday (2:58]
3. Sunday [4:16]

Weekend was written for Royal Danish Brass in 1992 and premiered the same year in Copenhagen. It is a little suite in three short movements which takes us through a typical weekend. Friday night with a colorful party including dance and drinks - followed by a Saturday with heavy hangovers and clouds hanging very low. The Sunday starts in piety singing hymns in the church, but through the day the new week arises with anxiety and restlessness.

10. The Sound of Bronze (2001) (5:22)
Jens Wilhelm Fuzzy 1939

Two Bronze-age lures and electronics Commissioned by a private party to be played at the opening of an exhibition in the Copenhagen Bella Center 2001. The piece got its proper and public first performance on December 1st, 2002 in a concert on The New Stage of The Royal Theatre - also called Sterekassen ('The Starling Nest Box'). The composition combines the oldest Danish musical instruments
with modern electronics of today.