Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - Incontri: Works for Orchestra
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Label: Dacapo
Cat No: 8226120
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 2nd September 2016
Contents
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraConductor
Thomas DausgaardWorks
Incontri for orchestraMirror II for orchestra
Symphony, Antiphony for orchestra
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraConductor
Thomas DausgaardAbout
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was one of the most striking composers from northern Europe over the past half century – a unique personality and a major figure in Danish musical life, even though he considered himself to be an outsider.
He was born in 1932 and had his debut as a composer in 1955. In his early works, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was inspired by such figures as Nielsen, Bartók and Stravinsky. Around 1960, he became a leading figure within ‘the new simplicity’: laconic music which nevertheless, in Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s hands, could be extremely ambiguous. Equivocality and a provocative absurdity are recurrent features of his production. As he himself formulated it: ‘I often write music that cannot make up its mind, and that is deliberate.’
The material in Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s music was often extremely restricted. Motifs and sound elements are repeated and displayed without mercy, since confrontation for him was artistically speaking the salt of life. This led both to violent clashes and to completely static, eventless modes of expression.
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