Sinfonia per due violini is based upon a film script by Johannes Nyholm. Hagstedt hopes that this film will some day be realised, and that parts of Sinfonia will be used as the score. The film deals with grandiose visions and unattainable dreams. Where desire itself is depicted as a thing of magnificent beauty, and at the same time absurd and crazy. Like life itself. Sinfonia portrays all of this in four parts.

The work is written for Duo Gelland, and is recorded by them on NOSAG records together with Depurazione.

Link to a review in The Gramophone.

42 pieces for piano is a collection of a wide spectrum of emotions, or rather musical reflections upon emotions. There is no titles, just numbers on the pieces. Most of the work was composed during 2017, and it was finished in early 2018.

Music by Fredrik Hagstedt performed by Duo Gelland. Dance and choreography by Eva Ingemarsson.

This is not a Symphony, but a work for orchestra, with a somewhat symphonic sounding. Hagstedt's own words about the work: "The idea came to on a hike in a really foggy and grey forest in November, 2018. It was in the morning, the darkness had just left, and I felt very calm and sad in a both comforting and relieving way. I thought, more people need to get in touch with nature in this way, get away from the digital pseudo-reality once in a while. And I felt that I wanted to create a piece of music that could move people, immediately, make them feel something similar to what I felt in that moment, and maybe inspire them to disconnect to the web and social media, and connect to real life – and feel deeper emotions, both pure sadness and great happiness."

Music inspired by Nature Photography. Photos by Claes Grundsten.

Grundsten and Hagstedt have a collaboration since 2017, which so far has resulted in orchestral works, and works for piano and works for organ.

In every work they select a theme, and inspired by Grundsten's chosen photos, Hagstedt composes music that tries to create emotions similar to what the pictures communicate. The goal is that the photos and the music combined shall make an even greater impact.

This work is about rhythm more than anything else. Rhythmic force, and details, and developement, and different metres. Additive metres such as 7/8, 8/8 (3+3+2), 11/8 (3+3+3+2), among others, and sometimes mixed metres.

It contains both joyful and painful rhythms, and also a lot of memorable tunes and themes. By listening to the work in its entirety, most people would possibly become more curious about the world, and happy to be alive.
 

To Hagstedt this was a difficult Symphony to create, as he had begun it 2007, but then left the work unfinished with just one completed movement and some sketches for the rest. To take up the process again in 2017 was in some ways painful. It was like evoking ten-year old emotions, and have to deal with them again. In the end this however made the work stronger.

Lasting around 28 minutes, this is a quite short Symphony. Maybe there will be another movement added later, as Hagstedt intended from the beginning, but for now it is completed as a single movement work. It is written for a small orchestra, with a Piano part that is to be considered as a solo part, but far from making it a concerto. The main idea for the work is to reflect impressions from the nature, especially the forest in the spring, with a lot of living creatures both audially and visually present. But it is not so much echoing their sounds, it is more of recreating the feeling to be walking in this landscape. The very beginning, however, and some other sections, is more about looking out from a view point, far out, on both the forest, and the distant sea.
In the work there are some quotations from his own choir pieces Evighet, melodies which works fine sung by instruments as well as by singers.

Music inspired by Nature Photography. Photos by Claes Grundsten.

Symphony no 3, composed between 2016-2017.

Hagstedt's fourth symphony took four years to complete.

Symphony no 5 is a still going work-in-progress, probably finished by the autumn of 2020.