Composer Anders Nordentoft is talking about the inspiration behind composing music to the poems of Rose Ausländer. He found her word play so interesting and her poetic world so inspiring. He explains how he tried to capture some atmosphere in the poems and bring it out further in the music. For Anders the process started with the words of the poems and he demonstrates his thought process to create the melody.

Anders is also talking about the new opera he wrote and I had the privilege to see the hand written score during our conversation. This is a very insightful interview of how this great composer of Denmark is working.