Per Nørgård GEMINI RISING for harpsichord soloFirst there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there isThe title literally Ascending Twins - was borrowed from astrological terminology but refers purely musically to two essential circumnstances in the work: A constant duplicity in the melodic basis as well as an almost constantly ascending tendency. Even when - as is the case in the start - falling figures appear the combination of several such figures produces an ascending impression. GEMINI RISING was composed for Elisabeth Chojnacka and premiered at a concert in Copenhagen in November 1990.Per Nørgård
