(Photo by Dag Thorenfeldt)
Thanks to Dag for the kind permission to use this picture
( In Norwegian)
by Jan Askelund
( Thank you Jan for your kind permission)
" Charles has brought me so much beauty and friendship in his poems and by just being himself. -
To have a friend like him that you can share your silence with, and in that silence Charles told me everything"
(Robert Rønnes)
Robert Rønnes "My Time" 12 poems after Charles R Bergesen (1993)
for Narrator, Bassoon and Piano
( Movement 1 - 4 from the book "Min Tid" 1986 )
( Movement 5 - 8 from the book "Underveis" 1990 )
( Movement 9 - 12 from the book "Sommerblomster og Tistler" 1992 )
1: Min Tid ( Oh Time,My Time )
2: Den første stråle ( The first Beam )
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5 :Svarte fugler ( Dark Birds )
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9: Dønning - attacca - 10: Jeg frykter angsten
12 Neste generasjon ( The Next Generation )
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Charles Racine Bergesen, Narrator.
Robert Rønnes, Bassoon.
Wolfgang Plagge, Piano.
Concert performance and worldpremiere 4th december 1993.
The Small Concert hall - Stavanger, Norway.
Thank you Anne Marie and Wolfgang for letting me use this recording.
Parts of this work was performed by Robert Rønnes in Moscow, Russia in 1995.
The text was resitated in Russian, and the narrator Aleksander Shafran declamated Charles poems in a pure and
impressive way. This work will in the future be able to perform with Norwegian, Russian and in English text.
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