Browse: Holmboe (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by Vagn Holmboe (1909–96).
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The grandeur Holmboe elicits from his small ensemble and basic thematic material is a lesson in compositional craft, the creation of a whole (considerably) greater than the sum of its parts...Excellent... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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In form the symphonic metamorphosis is an offshoot of the symphonic fantasia (but of a kind radically different from Sibelius's Pohjola's Daughter), each of these four very different from its... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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All of this difficult music is extraordinarily well played by the Nightingale String Quartet. Their fresh and vibrant approach surpasses the Kontra Quartet and the recorded sound for the Nightingale’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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This second instalment of Holmboe (190996) quartets by fellow Danes the Nightingale Quartet is a joy – lush, romantic playing, but equally clean and spacious. The works themselves owe a debt... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Vagn Holmboe: Concertos
Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Erik Heide (violin)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
That this is one the finest viola concertos ever penned I have not the slightest doubt, and it is thrown off with dazzling virtuosity by Tomter and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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The conductor penetrates the score of the Eighth with a particular sensitivity, and the Aarhus orchestra is equally persuasive in the Ninth, a dark, powerful work, among the finest Holmboe has... — More…
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Here is a different side to the composer, not the public orator but the craftsman of exquisitely designed ensemble pieces as much a delight to play as to hear. — More…
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Open Space: A Hand for Holmboe
Deconstructions by Katrine Ring
Kathrine Ring (electronics)
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Hannu Koivula
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