extract from part IV of Hemligheten (The Secret)
for
counter-tenor (or contralto), recorder, baroque violin, viola da gamba, theorbo(durata 19-20')
Written on poems by Tomas Tranströmer from The Great Enigma (Den stora gåtan © Bonniers 2004)

In the work ten from the forty five haiku have been chronologically selected and composed into five main parts, with two short, almost instrumental, passages between the first and last parts. There can thus be two haiku in one and the same part. Instrumental and vocal parts constantly go in and out of each other throughout the piece.

Madeleine Isaksson

Hemligheten IV (2014) baroque ensemble

from first part of Tjärnöga - Ö blå (1992) 13'
Anna Axelsson - horn

Tjärnöga (1992) horn solo

2023-2024
oboe d'amore, violin, viola and cello
First part of two

Vindande (swe. "windy/winding, or "wind spirit") was composed for Emmanuel Laville, oboe d'amore, Geneviève Martineau, violin, Tony Bauer, viola and  Astrid Lindell, cello (members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra) to whom Vindande is dedicated.

Vindande 1 (2023) Oboe d'amore quartet

first performance: 25.8.1982, Hässelby Slott, Stockholm
Madeleine Isaksson, piano

Chaconne

Terre de l'absence (2012)
for 6 soloist voices
Nordic Voices


Terre de l'absence (2012) six voices

inné (1993)
for
flute, oboe, saxophone (clarinet), horn, bassoon,
violin, viola, cello, double bass

ensemble l'Itinéraire 
Pascal Rophé

inné (1993) ensemble

Axis

In quarto, by Madeleine Isaksson
Commissioned 2016 by 40f with support from Swedish Art Council.
Recorded at Studio Epidemin, Gothenburg, May 2017
(Ann Elkjär, Jill Widén, Bjørnar Habbestad, Anna Svensdotter)

In quarto (2016) flute quartet

Várije (2013) 8'
for children's choir, 2 soprano solists, and children's yoik choir
Mánáj vuöllie and NorrlandsOperan Childrens choir
first performance at the Opening of Umeå, European culture town 2014

Várije

first performance at Kalv Festival 2018
Karin Hellqvist, violin
Heloisa Amaral, piano
Sori Choi, (korean) percussion

Madeleine Isaksson composer

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