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Vagn Holmboe’s superb series of chamber concertos has been excellently documented on disc by Denmark’s Dacapo label, but this disc is unusually interesting nonetheless, not
In Volume 2 of his Preludes for Sinfonietta, Vagn Holmboe continues along the lines begun in Volume 1. Each piece is constructed of highly concentrated
In his string quartets Vagn Holmboe employs a sophisticated style that largely eschews conventional melodic devices in favor of a predominantly motivic technique of construction.
Vagn Holmboe’s 10 Preludes for Sinfonietta, five of which are presented here, were composed between 1986 and 1991 and dedicated to the British music critic
It’s true that Danish composer Vagn Holmboe (1909-96) was one of the most highly gifted choral composers of the 20th century. However, judging from choral
This final volume in dacapo’s four-disc survey of the complete Holmboe chamber concertos completes a musical odyssey of the highest value, not just for the
Composed between 1975 and 1978, Vagn Holmboe’s String Quartets Nos. 13 to 15 venture deeper and deeper into introspection and melancholy. Half of the movements
