Esbjerg Ensemble - In a Silent Way - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Even as he emerges onto Denmark's new music scene as a major new voice, Matias Vestergård is a rarity on it a composer fluent, flexible, prolific and poly-stylistic who draws on genres ranging from hymnody to cabaret while probing some of the basic theories of sound and it's production. The music recorded here was written during Vestergård's years at the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, charting a process of self-discovery described by the composer as 'my younger self trying to deal with the serious classical music heritage I love.'

Erich Kunz - German University Songs Vol. 4 [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/13/2010

Bent Sørensen's music can feel like the product of a dream, at once vague and precise, present and intangible. With Rosenblad and Pantomime, the recording of Sørensen's trilogy Papillons is complete. This is music filled with the ebb and flow of fear, hope and nostalgia and unified by common musical material through the same anchoring piano part across it's movements. All works including the Fantasia Appassionata for solo piano are written for Katrine Gislinge, Sørensen's wife and one of the most significant pianists in Scandinavia, here accompanied by Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet. All of the pieces on this are premiere recordings, and are being released at the same time that Sørensen will receive the prestigious Grawemeyer Award.