HasseåTage

About the longing for peace in the light of the star

orchestrated by Rolf Martinsson for clarinet and chamber orchestra

The Forza Quartet

Concerto for clarinet and orchestra

Lament Åsa HasseåTageLament was commissioned by the Norrland Opera Symphony Orchestra as a pendang to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. A recitative in the cello part, from the beginning of the fourth movement, forms the basis of the entire piece. "I have brought out the lyrical side of Beethoven, perhaps not his most typical characteristic, because I thought that all the struggle and fireworks that often describe his music felt a bit irrelevant in this context. I have