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Ensemble MidtVest - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Music, Vol. 1: Primavera; 'Gioco'; Sonata per flauto solo; Ballata; Quartetto (2011)

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Ensemble MidtVest - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Music, Vol. 1:  Primavera; 'Gioco'; Sonata per flauto solo; Ballata; Quartetto (2011)

Ensemble MidtVest - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Music (I) (2011)
Primavera; "Gioco"; Sonata per flauto solo; Ballata; Quartetto

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 288 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Dacapo Records | # 8.226073 | Time: 01:12:21

This recording marks the beginning of a new series devoted to previously unrecorded chamber works by the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe (1909-96). The music was written from the 1950s to the 1980s and ranges wide, all the way from the playful to the serious. Holmboe's inexhaustible wealth of ideas and his mixture of lightness and ingenuity run through all the works. As does his 'metamorphosis' technique, which makes the music breathe and grow like the Nordic landscape of which Holmboe felt himself to be a part.

Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)

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Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)

Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)
Gordon Hunt, oboe; Martin Fröst, clarinet; Noriko Ogawa, piano; Danish National Opera Choir
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 296 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1176 CD | Time: 01:18:06

Something of Vagn Holmboe's approach to writing concertos may be discerned in his numeration: they are not grouped according to the solo instrument (e.g., Piano Concerto No. 1), but counted merely as Concertos in the sequence of their composition, regardless of the featured instruments. This suggests that the soloist's role is somewhat altered: still central as a leading part, but frequently incorporated into the orchestral mass as a coloristic instrument among many others. The Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Op. 17 (1939), clearly demonstrates Holmboe's procedure, for the piano switches back and forth between lyrical solos and more emphatically rhythmic passages as a percussion instrument. Holmboe's Concerto No. 3 for clarinet and orchestra, Op. 21 (1940-1942), also presents interesting mixtures of the instrument's distinctive tone with other timbres, most strikingly with the brass section. The Concerto No. 7 for oboe and orchestra, Op. 37 (1944-1945), is most beguiling in the many chamber-like, concertino combinations of the oboe with other woodwinds. Pianist Noriko Ogawa, clarinetist Martin Frost, and oboist Gordon Hunt strike the right balance with conductor Owain Arwel Hughes and the Ålborg Symphony Orchestra, since all give prominence to the leading part where Holmboe indicates, but equal attention to the ever-shifting background textures.