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2021-04-07 09:23:24
60th birthday celebration: Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen's works for recorder player Michala Petri survyed in this engaging and imaginative disc.
[…] the high-point of Danish Baroque poetry. The music for the hymn was a traditional melody, which Rasmussen subjects to 12 variations, and the variations themselves are inspired by the work of the Dutch carillonneur and recorder virtuoso Jacob can Eyeck (1590-1657). The result is a seductive and dazzling 10 minutes of pure recorder joy. Winter Echoes for recorder and 13 solo strings was commissioned as part of a musical tribute to the Danish composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924-2012) and the winter of the title refers to Borup-Jørgensen's fondness for writing works with the word 'Winter' in the title. The work starts vividly and dramatically on the strings, and throughout Rasmussen gives us some terrific string writing. Initially Rasmussen has the recorder playing low, almost inaudible and only gradually emerging from the string texture. The work is continuous, but in sections including a cadenza, and throughout Rasmussen intrigues with his writing. By […]
2018-01-17 00:00:00
Music by Axel Borup-Jørgensen, heard by Gerald Fenech. 'This is music that needs to be listened to several times before one can start to comprehend the composer's inner thoughts ...'
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-10-23 17:54:09
Boston Phil Delivers
[…] very busy percussionists, ten cellos and seven basses. Throughout the quickly shifting episodic structure, conductor Benjamin Vickers held the ensemble tightly in check, excelling in creating a transparent, muted sound underneath the many solos and presentations of high harmonics. Standout soloists included concertmaster Jae Lee, bass clarinetist Hunter Bennett, timpanist Edward Meltzer (who seemed to be called on to sustain a ppp timpani roll throughout most of the fluttering contrasts), and guest theremin player Thorwald Jørgensen. Auerbach’s music is conceived abstractly, with titles added later, and the theremin’s tone emerged like a choral voice from the high strings in many sections of the piece (it might remind listeners of the use of wordless chorus so popular in the early 20th century with composers such as Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Debussy). It is structured roughly as a rondo (the refrain being a pulsing section full of Bartók pizzicato attacks from all […]
2015-07-22 02:00:00
Music by and inspired by Axel Borup-Jørgensen, recommended by Geoff Pearce. '... very descriptive, atmospheric music ...'
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