Christensen,Henrik Vagn / Figuro Ensemble - To Arrive Where We Started - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Danish composer Jeppe Just Christensen's music is all about recycling, nostalgia, instruments and toys. On this portrait album, curated by the chamber ensemble SCENATET, the composer himself appears with his unusual InchbandInch, Jeppe Just Instituttet, playing on self-invented, homemade or toy instruments such as egg slicer, coffee grinder, toy piano and melodica. Together, the two ensembles create a unique and delicate world of sounds, which is both the special starting point for the music and the source of it's constant fascination. Album Tracks 1. 1st Movement 2. 2nd Movement 3. 3rd Movement 4. 4th Movement 5. 5th Movement 6. 6th Movement 7. 7th Movement 8. 8th Movement 9. 9th Movement 10. I 11. II 12. I 13. II 14. III

Andy Pape was born in California but went to Denmark to study in 1971 and made his home in this small Nordic country. An Amerikaner in Danmark is not just a reference to the composer, but also a humorous and brilliantly orchestrated tribute to George Gershwin. It is presented on this world premiere recording with InchSuburban NightmaresInch and InchTraces of Time Lost.Inch Details 1. An Amerikaner in Danmark - Odense Symphony Orchestra 2. Preludium - Carl Boye Hansen/Odense Symphony Orchestra 3. The Suburbs - Carl Boye Hansen/Odense Symphony Orchestra 4. The Nightmare - Carl Boye Hansen/Odense Symphony Orchestra 5. Postludium - Carl Boye Hansen/Odense Symphony Orchestra 6. The Echoes of Time - Morten Ostergaard/Odense Symphony Orchestra 7. The Spiral of Time - Morten Ostergaard/Odense Symphony Orchestra 8. Traces of Time - Morten Ostergaard/Odense Symphony Orchestra

As a composer, Simon Christensen received his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Conservatoire de Paris. His music has been performed in his native country, Denmark, and abroad, counting commissions by Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Athelas Sinfonietta and more. Simon is an active musician in his own duo Mono Duo, he performs on the zither, a handful of percussion instruments and a small arsenal of analogue modules. Inch... would just like to say that Simon Christensen's string quartet Manifest - Bust There's No Need to Shout, which I heard this afternoon at Frederiksberg Palace Chapel, was a revelation. A work that played for more than an hour without dramatic progression and without ascending and descending motions... Inch - Jexper Holmen, composer Album Tracks 1. Manifest - But There's No Need to Shout - Various Performers