Kronos plays Holmgreen

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Label
Dacapo Classical
Release Date
October 28, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HOLMGREEN, PELLE GUDMUNDSEN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Kronos Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Hillier, Dausgaard, Danish National So
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2008
    • UPC
      747313154869
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      6220548
    • LABEL
      Dacapo Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Concerto Grosso (rev. 2006)

      Composer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    2. I. Moving (Europe Seen in a Week)

      Composer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

      Performer: Paul Hillier

    3. II. Still (In Denmark I Was Born)

      Composer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

      Performer: Paul Hillier

    4. String Quartet No. 9, "Last Ground"

      Composer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

      Performer: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Wayne Siegel


This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (b. 1932) is one of the leading Scandinavian composers, an outstanding and insistent voice from the generation born in the inter-war years. This CD is the culmination of the composer’s unique collaboration with the world-famous American Kronos Quartet, which has been commissioning specially tailored works from the Danish composer for over 20 years.

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REVIEW:

The CD concludes with the ninth string quartet of Holmgreen, written for the Kronos Quartet in 2006. It is in a single movement, beginning and ending with recorded sounds of a roaring ocean. The blending of recorded sounds of nature and instrumental music is effective and moving, a beautiful tribute to the power of nature, representing a kind of Danish impressionism.

There is much on this collection of music that is similarly evocative, as well as much that is rather frustrating, but that mix reflects a powerful musical talent.

– Fanfare