Programme note Tre Magdalene strofer / Three Magdalena Stanzas (1991/1994) for piano solo. Paraphrase over '3 Magdalena Songs' to texts (in Danish) by Hanne Groes: I. PRIVATION II. DEPARTURE III. MEETING Rosalind Bevan was really the originator of this piece since she urged me to write a piano version of my “Magdalena Songs” (to Hanne Groes texts in Danish) which she so often had accompanied. Moved by Rosalind's interest in the two contrasting songs (Kaldedrømme (´Calling Dreams) “Sent Møde (´LateMeeting) I wrote this little suite of Magdalena Stanzas for the piano. As the titles suggest the arche-typical 'longing for fulfilment'-motive (or ´longing´ and ´fullfilment´) is in focus. Less obvious is it that the two tunes supplement each other (as the famous 'Rubin vase-and-profiles'-complementarity manifest visually). But they do! Per Nørgård
