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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 — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Vagn Holmboe - Concertos
Noriko Ogawa (piano), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Danish National Opera Choir, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar but not so homogeneous a set as Hindemith's Kammermusiken.... — More…
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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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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. — More…
