Interview: 4barsrest
Quotes from press:
"..Thanks in no small part to a work from the pen of a composer who has done more than most to develop the musical excellence of Norwegian banding over the years – Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen. It was a lovely, unexpected twist of musical fate for them all – from dreaming ‘Fantasy’ to joyous reality.."
".. Although of classical construction, the architecture was, as we have come to expect from the Norwegian composer, tellingly individual and original.."
"..Fanfares and Fairytales by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen is more complex, its four movements creating a fascinating and fantastical musical landscape.."
"..Orchestration of Aagaard-Nilsen is spacious. He finds some wonderful vocal instrument surprises with which to continue the role of the euphonium in the orchestra.."
"..Det er välskiktad och interessant musik.."
"..en fast sammanhållen tubastämma med kraftiga klangvariationer ställdes emot en lös orkesterstämma der allt verkade vara användbart framör allt för stråkarna. Det var friskt, interessant, ställvis lyriskt, ställvis brutalt.."
"..the tone abstracts painted by the composer are as interesting as they are complex.."
".. perhaps the most fascinating work in the collection, Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen’s Feber-Fantasi, a piece originally written for euphonium, in which the soloist is accompanied only by nine cornets..."
"...Det er i første rekke Aagaard-Nilsens behandling av klanger som virkelig er fasinerende..."
"...Platas desiderte mest spennende bit er Torstein Aagaard-Nilsens "Fanfares and Fairytales" som ble urframført i 2005. Dette verket er fullt av innfall, spennende melodiske føringer og setter solisten på usedvanlig intrikate prøver..."
"..han viser en imponerende oppfinnsomhet både melodisk og bruken av instrumentene.."
"..så skriver han virtuost og idiomatisk for instrumentene.."