Vagn Holmboe's To the Seagulls and the Cormorants, Op. 174, No. 6

[classicalmusicfan]

For this week's free track that I got from classicsonline.com, it was Vagn Holmboe's To the Seagulls and the Cormorants, Op. 174, No. 6 from the album HOLMBOE, V.: Key Masterpieces (The) - Requiem for Nietzsche / String Quartet No. 4 / Chamber Concerto No. 2

The spirit of folk culture plays an important role in the music of the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe. As was the case with Béla Bartók (one of Holmboe's most important sources of inspiration), folkloristic studies have here contributed significantly to the compositional process. Holmboe is the most influential Danish composers of the generation after Carl Nielsen and his large output includes twelve symphonies, chamber concertos, and a long series of extremely fine string quartets.

note: The free track is good for one week.   

[gep]

Hlmboe is indeed a fine composer. Happily Da Capo has issued quite a number of discs of him; 21 (well, 20 1/2) string quartets in indeed very fine performances, the series of "preludes for sinfonietta" of which Op. 174/6 is one and a very nice series of chamber concertos (I trust Thal has the Piano Concerto from that series). On BIS there are his complete 14 (not 12) symphonies; 13 numbered ones plus the Sinfonia In Memoriam (first numbered no. 9).

A composer to be sought out, I'd say!

gep

[retrouvailles]

I trust Thal has the Piano Concerto from that series

Do you really? What if I were to tell you that I had it, rather than him? There are a lot of concertos that are more likely for me to have, rather than him (I am also a massive collector, but I actually like modern music). I think it is just a fluke that he has those concertos by Berio and Carter.

Anyways, I think I'll be buying some more disks of Holmboe. I don't like downloading single free tracks. It's just a ploy to get you to buy the rest of the disk anyways. I'd rather buy the physical disk from Amazon.com anyways, and I don't need an adbot from some website to tell me to buy anything.

[gep]

Quote from: gep on Today at 11:33:01 AM
I trust Thal has the Piano Concerto from that series

Do you really? What if I were to tell you that I had it, rather than him?

You know he doesn't have it? Or do you guess?
I have it too btw!

I think I'll be buying some more disks of Holmboe.

Good for you!
If you don't have these, get the quartets, symphonies and preludes. Not to forget the four "metamorphoses" pieces (1 BIS CD).

gep