With Hope

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Label
Prophone
Release Date
November 28, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Anders Hagberg Flutes, Soprano Saxophone, Matusi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 28, 2025
    • UPC
      822359004443
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCD369
    • LABEL
      Prophone
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Elasticity of Trees

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    2. Elegy

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    3. Ruins

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    4. Welcome for Allie

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Johannes Lundberg, Anders Hagberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    5. Circle No. 2

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Johannes Lundberg, Anders Hagberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    6. With Hope

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    7. Arctic Call

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    8. Evening Hymn - Gammelsvenskby

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    9. Sisters - For Lo and Ebba

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    10. Woods in Blue

      Composer: Anders Hagberg

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken

    11. 4 Motets pour le temps de Noël, FP 152: No. 1. O magnum mysterium (arr. for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Anders Hagberg, Johannes Lundberg, Joona Toivanen, Helge Andreas Norbakken


The music on this album reflects upon and responds to the state of the world it's wars, polarization, and climate change. It fills me with melancholy and sorrow, yet within this darkness, I also see hope through the people I encounter in my life and the power of the positive initiatives that still take place. Hope grows in intimate conversations, in the creative space of music where we intuitively understand each other through listening, in children's play, and in resistance against narrow-mindedness. In the resilience of nature, society, and people during this uncertain time of change. Photographer Anders Petersen has generously allowed me to use his image Hamburg as the album cover. To me, the image speaks of an unfathomable moment of mutual connection of resonance in the midst of everyday life. And perhaps hope lies precisely there, in our wonder and resonance with the world around us. Three compositions Ruins, Evening Hymn, and With Hope draw inspiration from traditional hymns of Gammelsvenskby in Ukraine. Parts of the theme in Arctic Call are based on phrases from an Inuit drum song from Greenland, and the original idea for Woods in Blue comes from a polska from Harjedalen, Sweden. The closing piece, O Magnum Mysterium by Francis Poulenc, was originally written for soprano solo and choir.