Chamber, Holmboe (composer)
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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... —
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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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. —
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Vagn Holmboe - The Key Masterpieces
Hannu Koivula Morten Zeuthen (cello), Helge Rønning (tenor) & Johan Reuter (bass)
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, The Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Trio Ondine, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The Kontra Quartet, Michael Schønwandt
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Vagn Holmboe: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Johannes Søe Hansen (violin) & Christina Bjørkøe (piano)
With top-notch sound, this is a release the excellence of which puts considerations of cost into perspective...hearing the Third Sonata's opening Moderato dissolve into serenity [is] priceless. —
