Royksop - Lost Tapes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The last stop on a long journey, here is the third and final installment of a warmly received Langgaard cycle undertaken by violinist Gunvor Sihm and pianist Berit Johansen Tange. The present volume includes the violin sonatas Nos. 2 and 3 - highly accomplished works with strong individual features - and two single-movement pieces composed by Langgaard the precocious teenager the charming Aubade written on a summer holiday with his parents, and the dark-colored Night Watchman's Song. Gunvor Sihm trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, from where she graduated in 2014 under Professor Serguei Azizian. Before that Gunvor studied 2 years at San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Ian Swensen. Gunvor Sihm has won several prizes, among others the prestigious Van Hauen's Music Prize 2011, the Eigil Harby Foundation's scholarship in 2015 and Gladsaxe Music Prize 2018. From 2011-15 Gunvor played in the 1st violins of Copenhagen Phil, until she won the position as 2nd Concertmaster for the 2nd violins of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Gunvor was a soloist with among others Odense Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Tivoli Copenhagen Phil, Danish National Chamber Orchestra and, on several occasions, Copenhagen Phil. With Nightingale String Quartet Gunvor Sihm has recorded the complete string quartets by Rued Langgaard for Dacapo.

There were many highlights to her musical career the concerts she gave in the Netherlands between 1968 and 1989 feature prominently among them. This is a faithful rendition, thanks especially to the remarkable audio quality. Dearie masterfully performed in all the instrumental formations, from solo shows to the great Metropole Orchestra. She sang repertoires of every kind, from film music - she brought a new dimension to InchRaindrops Keep Falling on my HeadInch - to Joni Mitchell's InchBoth Sides NowInch, sensitively revisited. Not to forget a masterpiece whose music she composed, InchWinchesterin Apple Blossom TimeInch, with Marilyn Monroe-style boo-be-doops - two superb versions of which can be enjoyed here, as well as her other compositions, those mentioned, and InchBring All Your Love AlongInch, whose first recording, made in Laren, 1982, is featured here. Blossom, so aptly named, bids the audience adieu, and makes a graceful bow.

Stefan Vladar - Piano Concertos 2 & 5 InchEmperorInch [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/30/1992