Composer & Musician
String Quartet no 1 is completed. You can listen to the whole Quartet or its individual movements below.
Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composed: August 2018 – May 2025
NB: Recorded with sampled instruments for demonstration purposes only.
Feel free to contact me for scores and parts 😎
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This was a cassette recorded in one and a half hour in a basement in Sweden in the late spring of 1979. The participants were trainees from the Ananda Marga Yoga Training Center in Ydrefors, Sweden. I wrote some of the songs, and contributed with vocals and guitar. Barnet Shapiro played the viola, and some of the tunes are numbers we use to do busking around Europe raising money for social work.
One or two tracks from the original cassette are missing – the others have been skillfully digitally remastered by Ravi Brunsvik.
Composer/Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola solo: Barnet Shapiro
Vocals: Yoga Center Trainees
Composer/Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Vocals: Yoga Center Trainees
Composer/Guitar/Vocals: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola Solo: Barnet Shapiro
Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola Solo: Barnet Shapiro
Vocals: Yoga Center Trainees
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Opening Vocals: Barnet Shapiro and Terje Berg-Hansen
Guitar/Vocals: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola Solo: Barnet Shapiro
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composer: Thelonius Monk
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composer: Tom Jobim
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Sym
phony no 9 is being composed. You can listen to the first 2 movements below, recorded with sampled instruments.
Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composed: August 2020 –
NB: Recorded with sampled instruments for demonstration purposes only.
Feel free to contact me for scores and parts 😎
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Symphony no 8 is completed. You can listen to the whole Symphony or its inedividual movements below.
Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composed: May 2020 – September 2021
NB: Recorded with sampled instruments for demonstration purposes only.
Feel free to contact me for scores and parts 😎
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Wind Quintet no. 3 is being composed. You can listen to its first movement below.
Composed: May 2020 –
NB! Recorded with sampled instruments for demonstration purposes only.
Trio for Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Contrabassoon is being composed. You can listen to its first three movements below.
Composed: January 2020 –
NB! Recorded with sampled instruments for demonstration purposes only.
Trio_for_Bass_trombone_Bass_clarinet_and_Contrabassoon_mvt_1.pdf
Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra is being composed. You can listen to the first two movements below.
Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composed: October 2019 –
Nu Skiffle Brigade (NSB) was a fun project I did entirely on my own and which resulted in a CD – Step Out! – that was released in 2006. Most of the recordings were however done in 2002-2004.
Here are the tunes on the CD:
This tune contains samples from the recording of “Dinah” by the Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby in the 1930s as well as a sample of Dizzy Gilespie’s voice from his tune “Jump Dideli-Ba”. The rest is all me.
Contains samples from an early recording of “Happy Days are Here Again” as well as a sample of Cab Calloway scatting from a recording of the song “Jumping Jive”
Sung by “Ukulele Ike”, who’s real name was Cliff Edwards, and who later shape-shifted into Jiminy Cricket singing “When you wish upon a star” every Christmas.
This must be the least political correct tribute to black American music ever made by white musicians. Still, it is a tribute, and that’s how I interpret it. I added quite a few instruments and percussion, plus a steel drum solo part.
“Satchmo” Luis Armstrong with the Mills Brothers from the early 1930s. Satchmo’s trumpet solo was a bit short, so I sacrilegiously added a bit of trumpet myself, in the middle of it …
All me with some sampled female voices
Contains samples of Josephine Baker’s song of the same name. I added a few passages.
All me
All me again
And another one all by me, including acoustic guitar. Contains a ridiculously fast ocarina solo, played live in one take on a keyboard.
Concertino for String Orchestra is completed.
Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composed: May – August 2019
You can listen to the complete Concertino or its individual movements below.
NB: Recorded with sampled instruments for demonstration purposes only.
Feel free to contact me for scores and parts 😎
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