Jury's reasoning What we call contemporary music or new music will always be a combination of tradition and experimental innovation. In this year's prize winner, it feels as if the music springs from late Romanticism with its mixture of sensuality and the longing for heavenly beauty. But now in a new form. The musical expression here becomes like a fusion of […]
/ 01/04/2014 / codexWhat we call contemporary music or new music will always be a combination of tradition and experimental innovation. With this year's prize winner, it feels as if the music springs from late Romanticism with its mixture of sensuality and the longing for heavenly beauty. But now in a new form. The musical expression here becomes a fusion of European late Romanticism and international modernism, but with an indefinable Nordic patina and developed with great formal certainty and intelligence into a completely personal style. This is a composer we think we know, and whom we think we know so well that we sometimes think we can predict the next musical move. But most often we are wrong, and with this piece from 2005 we have been fooled once again. From his secret warehouse, the prize winner has brought out new sides and elements that once again make our ears grow and our hearts beat. This is music that seems just as vital and innovative as it did 50-60 years ago, and we can only thank you for another exciting, beautiful and inspiring gift to the music world and congratulate you on the EDVARD Prize!