Browse: SACD, Holmboe (composer)

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…

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…

[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…

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 — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

Throughout the programme, well recorded in a Copenhagen church, Petri plays with immaculate tuning and finger technique, crisp tonguing and well-shaed melodic lines; Esfahani matches her with... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…