{"id":8393,"date":"2026-09-21T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:27:27","slug":"evangelisten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/evangelisten\/","title":{"rendered":"EVANGELISTEN \/ THE EVANGELIST"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sj\u00f8forsvarets musikkorps med ny hornkonsert \u00abEvangelisten\u00bb.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The work was commissioned by the band\u2019s horn player, Christian Holter. My collaboration with the band goes back many years. They have premiered many of my compositions \u2013 at the Bergen International Festival, Autunnale, Borealis and BrassWind, among others. The band is a cornerstone of Bergen\u2019s musical life and a driving force in creating new works in collaboration with Norwegian composers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My approach to composition is based on dialogue with the performers. Christian and I are both interested in improvisation, something we explored throughout the composition process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \"The Evangelist\", we have drawn inspiration from the way the Evangelist is portrayed in Bach\u2019s Passions, both as a preacher and as an important communicator. We used this as the basic premise for the soloist\u2019s relationship with the ensemble.\n\nThe Evangelist appears to have an important message, but for it to reach the audience, it must be presented in a rhetorical form that can be understood and absorbed. The Evangelist himself must possess both ethos and pathos, lending credibility and passion to both the message and its delivery.\n\nThe work includes quotations from the music of J. S. Bach, who is a major source of inspiration for both the soloist and me. Our hope is that the work\u2019s underlying message \u2013 a desire for peace \u2013 can be perceived.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work has a total duration of approximately 21 minutes, with three movements that can be performed independently but together form a complete work.\n\nThe first movement, *The Explorer*, has a meditative character and explores various aspects of the horn\u2019s sound: extreme registers, natural harmonics, half-valve glissandi and multiphonics.\n\nThe second movement, *The Performer*, is more extrovert and virtuosic in character, placing the soloist in close dialogue with the entire ensemble.\n\nThe final movement, *The Evangelist*, quotes from Bach\u2019s *St John Passion*, setting his sublime music against the movement\u2019s rhythmic and improvisational elements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Verket er bestilt av Sj\u00f8forsvarets musikkorps sin hornist, Christian Holter.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8434,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knutvaage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}