The two movements in this symphony have quite similar structure and length, and this is no coincidence.
As a composer, I try to create two musical stories that comes from the same starting point and thought, but they sound and feel different.
Music often describes something you can´t say in words. This composer stands in the middle of the symphony, here personalized as trombone solo (or euphonium) and tries “Solitude Standing” to make a bridge between the two parts.
Stig Nordhagen