CD, Holmboe (composer)
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Special offer. Vagn Holmboe - Four Symphonic Metamorphoses
RecommendedAarhus Symphony, Owain Arwel Hughes
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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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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The Nightingales are always full-blooded, and they don’t disappoint here, throwing themselves into works of creeping tension and high drama. — More…
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Special offer. Holmboe: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
RecommendedAarhus Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
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Special offer. Vagn Holmboe - Concertos
Noriko Ogawa (piano), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Danish National Opera Choir, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar but not so homogeneous a set as Hindemith's Kammermusiken.... — More…
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[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,... — More…
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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... — More…
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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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Special offer. Vagn Holmboe - Brass Concertos
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Christian Lindberg (trombone), Jens Bjørn-Larsen (tuba)
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
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