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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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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, 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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Scandinavian Wood II: Danish Clarinet Music
Chen Hu Jie (soloist), Wang Tzu-Wen (soloist), Lu Yi (soloist)
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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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[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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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... —
