CD, Holmboe (composer)
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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... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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.... —
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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,... —
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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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Vagn Holmboe: Concertos
Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Erik Heide (violin)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
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 —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Holmboe: Chamber Concertos Nos. 10-13
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Max Artved (oboe), Tim Frederiksen (viola), Jacques Mauger
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Hannu Koivula
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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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Danish Violin Concertos Volume 5
Kai Laursen (violin), with Erik Spillemose (viola)
South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, Alf Sjøen, Carl-August Vogt, Carl von Garaguly
