Alsted: Agnete's Laughter

Rasmus Schjaerff Kjoller (accordion), Birgitte Alsted (electronics)

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About

Danish composer and violinist Birgitte Alsted (b. 1942) has been a pioneer of electro-acoustic music, finding the main inspiration for her music in literature and poetry. This album presents four of Alsted's key works for the first time on CD with the dramatic sound collage Agnete's Laughter, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, as the captivating title work.

Release date: 29th Jan 2013
Label: Dacapo
Catalogue number: 8226575
Length: 56 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Alsted: Agnetes latter (Agnete's Laughter)

Work length30:28

Birgitte Alsted (vocals)
Recorded: 1997, 2004
Recording Venue: DIEM, Aarhus, Denmark

I. Havmanden kalder (Call of the Merman)

Track length3:35

II. I dybet - Laengsel (In the Depths - Longing)

Track length2:39

III. Sonner 7 (Seven Sons)

Track length7:23

IV. Vugges (Rocked)

Track length2:54

V. Landet kalder (Call of the Land)

Track length10:23

VI. Agnetes latter (Agnete's Laughter)

Track length3:34

Alsted: Melencolia

Work length12:01

Rasmus Schjaerff Kjoller (accordion)
Recorded: 27 September 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark

Alsted: Sorgsang V (Lament V)

Work length9:14

Birgitte Alsted (vocals)
Recorded: 1997, 2004
Recording Venue: DIEM, Aarhus, Denmark

Alsted: Belletter

Work length4:53

Birgitte Alsted (electronics)
Recorded: 1997, 2004
Recording Venue: DIEM, Aarhus, Denmark

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