Knudåge Riisager: The Symphonic Edition Volume 3
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Bo Holten
All this music is unchallenging and easy to listen to on a first hearing. Most of it bears repeated listening too...We are fortunate indeed to have such worthwhile music available on disc...Highly...
Knudåge Riisager: The Symphonic Edition Volume 3
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Bo Holten
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All this music is unchallenging and easy to listen to on a first hearing. Most of it bears repeated listening too...We are fortunate indeed to have such worthwhile music available on disc...Highly...
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In this series of world premiere recordings of the symphonic music of Knudåge Riisager (1897-1974), you get to know the charming Danish composer through a genre he once tried to 'kill off ', yet at the same time refused to abandon. The Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, recorded here along with the Sinfonia concertante and the entertaining Summer Rhapsody, show Riisager as a searching, unprejudiced composer for whom the classical form types, despite all opposition, kept their attraction and fascination.
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Awards and reviews
May 2014
All this music is unchallenging and easy to listen to on a first hearing. Most of it bears repeated listening too...We are fortunate indeed to have such worthwhile music available on disc...Highly recommended.
21st March 2014
For those yet to commit to this cycle, the present volume may well prove the most rewarding...The ASO are in fine form - there is some tremendous brass-playing on the Summer Rhapsody, but the string sections too are worthy of especial mention. Under Bo Holten they have emerged as compelling advocates of Riisager's music.
