Tommie Haglund's music often incorporates electromagnetic radiation from space, such as from Earth and solar storms, into the auditory sphere, creating a 'sounding cosmos'.
Composition History
Tommie Haglund's work Flaminis aura was awarded the Christ Johnson music prize, Sweden's most important composition prize, ten years after its revision.
Compositional Technique
A consistent feature in Tommie Haglund's compositions is the 'sighing motif', a downward movement in whole or semitones, which appears almost emblematically across his works.
Compositional Technique
Tommie Haglund's music, while not conventionally tonal, frequently uses central pitches as gravitational points and employs 'pillars' of mighty chordal formations for structural stability.
Instruments
Ernst Simon Glaser, the cellist on this recording, plays a Francesco Rugeri cello, made in Cremona around 1680, which is on loan from Dextra Musica AS.
Composer Biography
The string trio Sollievo (dopo la tempesta) by Tommie Haglund refers to the composer's recovery after a long period of painful treatment following a back operation.
Compositional Technique
Tommie Haglund encoded the name of his friend Ann Marie Belfrage, a former producer at Svensk Musik, into the tonal material of his music using a cipher similar to Robert Schumann's technique.
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