CD, Holmboe (composer)

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... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 More…

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... — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As with all Holmboe's music, there are rewards in store for anyone who delights in following lines of pure musical thought. Nothing is gratuitous or extraneous; nor can the musical character... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…