Per Nørgård: Libra
Adam Riis (tenor) & Stefan Östersjö (guitar)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Fredrik Malmberg
Listening to Per Nørgård's Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar and utterly mysterious...between the Danish National Vocal Ensemble's...
Per Nørgård: Libra
Adam Riis (tenor) & Stefan Östersjö (guitar)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Fredrik Malmberg
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Listening to Per Nørgård's Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar and utterly mysterious...between the Danish National Vocal Ensemble's...
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Issued to celebrate the 80th Birthday of Per Nørgård in July 2012, this CD offers three of the composer's most captivating vocal works featuring the Danish National Vocal Ensemble conducted by Fredrik Malmberg. In marvellous musical landscapes, we encounter the composer in his most cosmic and prophetic vein, with the human voice as a catalyst of new awareness in both the musical and universal sense.
“If the music of today is to have any tomorrow, Nørgård will surely be part of it.” Gramophone
Contents and tracklist
- Adam Riis, Stefan Östersjö, Gert Sorensen, Tom Nybye
- DR VokalEnsemblet
- Fredrik Malmberg
- Recorded: 14-17 March 2012
- Recording Venue: Koncerthuset Studio 2, Denmark
- DR VokalEnsemblet
- Fredrik Malmberg
- Recorded: 14-17 March 2012
- Recording Venue: Koncerthuset Studio 2, Denmark
- Ulla Munch
- DR VokalEnsemblet
- Fredrik Malmberg
- Recorded: 14-17 March 2012
- Recording Venue: Koncerthuset Studio 2, Denmark
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Awards and reviews
January 2013
Listening to Per Nørgård's Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar and utterly mysterious...between the Danish National Vocal Ensemble's immaculate enunciation and Fredrik Malmberg's sensitive decrypting of Norgard's multiple meanings, his composition is revealed as being bold, beautiful and wise.
