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Programme Note

’Movements on a Moving Line’ was commissioned by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and first performed in 1987 with Oliver Knussen conducting. Some old/new questions intriguing me for years also rummage in this mini-symphony: does time flow like a river or is it just there, endlessly? Does a musical experience carry us along in time or does it surround us with single moments? One single melodic line runs through the whole work: from it (and on it) four traditional movements emerge: Allegro, Slow Waltz, a Fanfare-Scherzo and a rhythmical Finale. The melodic line runs in a circle, however, within itself, fast and slow at the same time, like a whirl. Thus the movements come and go and the end is the beginning. What is past and present, fast and slow, if you are moving within a moving circle?

Karl Aage Rasmussen

Media

Movements on a Moving Line (1987)

Scores

Discography

Speculum Musicae plays the New Danes

Speculum Musicae plays the New Danes
  • Label
    Bridge
  • Catalogue Number
    BCD9054
  • Conductor
    William Purvis
  • Ensemble
    Speculum Musicae
  • Released
    1995

Three Friends

Three Friends
  • Label
    Dacapo
  • Catalogue Number
    8.224094
  • Conductor
    Ole Schmidt
  • Ensemble
    Esbjerg Ensemble