The Gateway brings together Norwegian composer, novelist and pianist Ketil Bjornstad and the acclaimed cellist Sandra Lied Haga in a cycle of new works written especially for her.

Rooted in melody and shaped by improvisation, this meeting between generations is presented by Bjornstad as "a recording in which there is still room for the unhurried, the attentive, the melodic, the human".

The Gateway is not intended as a declaration or a manifesto. It is an invitation to listen slowly, to enter a musical landscape without knowing exactly where it will lead.