Maurice Duruflé: Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator" 
Stefan Fred : orgeln

Maurice Duruflé: Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator"

Nyctophobia

Stefan Fred (b.1962) Voute après Voute - trio for bratsch, cello & klavier (2006) Mina Fred, bratsch; Brian Frisholm, cello; David Strong, klavier (Live from Viborg Musiksal 26 april 2007)

Voute après Voute

Lyrics: Elfriede Jelinek (translated to Swe) & Bob Dylan
Editing: Ylva Fred

Commissioned by The Nobel Center, december 2016, performed by Mezzosoprano Emma Sventelius at The Nobel Museum at the day of the ceremony.
The piece have later on been performed on a numerous occasions by Lovisa Huledal.
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Lyrics:

Vad finns där ännu att förklara? 
Nu har någon trampat mig på tårna, blåser ett svall av dålig litteratur ut ur en mun.
Han droppar sitt hjärteblod i den:

For the times they are a-changing.

Det är kedjor som aldrig brister.
Detta gäller också många andra dikter, som man inte heller borde analysera.
Hur hans innersta vibrerar av smärtan i denna musik:

For the times they are a-changing.

På kamekazevis tillhandahåller hon sig själv som vapen.
Folket säger följaktligen, som med en röst:
Flickan med maskingeväret var det säkert inte!

For the times they are a-changing

Beethovens smärta!, Mozarts smärta!, Schumans smärta!, Bruckners smärta!, Wagners smärta!

De tittar på eleven och tänker att musiken redan tidigt har lyft hennes sinne. Ändå lyfter sig bara hennes näve.

Kapitel I for Mezzosoprano - performed by Emma Sventelius

Performed by Stockholms läns Blåsarsymfoniker, May 2017 at The Royal Collage of Music.
Conducted by B Tommy Andersson

Composer: Ylva Fred

Hymn for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl - for Wind Orchestra

Apnea (from the short "Du och Samuel gillar varandra" 2016)

A Four Walls Love Story was my exam piece as I graduated from the bachelor program at The Royal Collage of Music in Stockholm. Written 2017-18. 

Performed by Gävle Symfoniorkester the 2nd of June 2018. Conductor: Andreas Hanson. 

When writing this piece, my first apartment as an eighteen-year-old was in the back of my head, where emotions of alienation and rootlessness made shadows appear and pendulum clockworks mysteriously stand still. However, an insane inner landscape in an imaginatively haunted apartment has nothing to do with love. It's about accepting the terms which we've unwillingly been given.

A Four Walls Love Story for Symphony Orchestra – Gävle Symfoniorkester

“…(an) erotic derangement that turns us all into voyeurs, a place filled with the intoxicating air of perfect liberty.”
– Peter S. Beagle on Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

This piece is inspired by the 15th century painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by the Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch. The painting, created as a triptych, illustrates the heavenly paradise, the derailed life of earth and the hell where all sinners end up for their irresponsible behavior. Even though this painting today inevitably is being viewed with a large dose of humour, Bosch himself only tried to illustrate the absolute worst horrors he could imagine in the most serious manner.
In “Intoxicating air of perfect liberty” there is a garden full of flies and birds, a demonic ring dance and finally the Sinner’s Tune: The music transcribed from the painting itself in its full form.

Premiered April 2019 by lovely Musica Vitae with conductor Michael Bartosch. Thank you Musica Vitae/Mårten Sundén for the recording!

Intoxicating air of perfect liberty – for fourteen strings

Trudging through this grey, woolly yarn – performed by Mina Fred (Viola & Voice)

Performed by KMH Symfoniorkester with conductor Magnus Larsson, at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm

Maurice Duruflé: Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator"

Stefan Fred

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