Listen to Carl's music



Some of these recordings have been taken from the Intuitive Records site where they are available for listening and CDs are for sale.



Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen: Postcard-Music (1976).
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Notes and performance history. (Will open in a new window)
1) played by Group for Intuitive Music: Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen (French Horn, nightingale call, bassoon reed – Anders Keiding, bassoon – Jørgen Lekfeldt, piano). First rehearsal 25.April 1976. Listen.
2) sung at welcome concert for new students at Institute for Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, 1976. Listen.
3) played by Esbjerg Ensemble, Copenhagen 1981. (Cassette tape: Ny Dansk Musik, SUDM 006). Listen.

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Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen: Memory Piece 2 (2007).
Memory Pieces take free improvisation as the basis and cultivate the memorizing and subsequent, varied use of passages played. Here, it is a simple version in which the first section has "fill-ins", the material of which becomes the main material in the next section. While the main material of the former section now becomes fill-in into new material in the second and last section.
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1) CBN solo (French Horn, voice, prepared chromatic mouthharp) at Intuitiva Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, 28.Oct. 2007. Listen (6,12MB)
2) Gaël Navard solo (electronic percussion). 17.October 2008, Galerie 10RD, Nice. Listen.

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Improvised duo (Duo 4 from CD Ermatell JCD 042) - Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen (French Horn, voice) and Frank Hiesler (percussion). From a concert after DIMC 2001. Listen (2,79MB)
  This is a bit how I play sometimes ;-))
Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen: Game of Contrasts (1980). Excerpt from CD IR003. From a concert in 1997. Listen. (874KB) While listening, you might look at the score here...
  This is an old piece I still like and a very good recording.
Excerpt from beginning. From CD Denmark's Intuitive Music Conference 1997, "Second Tutti Improvisation". Improvisors Claus Bech-Nielsen, Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen, Frank Hiesler, Helene Jerg, René Mogensen, Niseema Marie Munk-Madsen, Gerhard Pischinger, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Robert Cole Rizzi, Johan Toft, Ivan Vincze and Kumi Wakao. Listen (560KB)
  This is from one of the most fantastic improvisations I've participated in. (It also received huge acclaim by reviewers and from Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen, Rii Numata and Atsushi Yamaguchi improvising at Big Apple, Kobe, Japan, July 2009. Video! There was a playing rule, special for this place with its open scene in these days: players had a randomly drawn little piece of paper each. If there was an apple on it, one could consider oneself "leader". I did not have it at that improvisation ;-)



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