“Memento mare” (1995) starts like a psalmistic melody, and it is a serious, sorrowful composition, a requiem in commemoration of all those who lost their lives in the horrible catastrophe that took place in the Baltic Sea in September 1994, when the ship Estonia sank, killing more than eight hundred unsuspecting people in a fall storm. This piece is written for mixed choir and wind orchestra, and the text is indeed from the Catholic mass for the dead, the Requiem. This is a moving, thoughtful piece, that strikes many emotions in all of us who went through this trauma which still affects us till this day, like the catastrophe at Tjernobyl or the murder of Olof Palme – three recent traumas, hard to deal with.


♫ Memento mare
© Bridge Records 9163 Nosag CD 053