Various Artists - Great Danish Pianist 5 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new features the music of Ryo Noda, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of Art Therapy Course, Art and Primary Education Department, Faculty of Arts, Osaka University of Arts, Music-Kinetic Therapist, composer, saxophone player, and Director of the Japan Coma Society. As a composer, he produced and performed educational works such as ballet, theatrical performances, and audio-visual education at the request of the French Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education, and performed in a contemporary Noh play Kiyotsune, a work commissioned by the French Broadcasting Sta-tion and National Museum of Modern Arts in Paris. His public performances in New York and Montreal, sponsored by the Japan Foundation were critically acclaimed in 'Le Monde' and the 'New York Times'. He was also invited by the Asian Cultural Council and Asia Society, New York to give recitals of his own works, and at the same time, deepened friendships with John Cage, Philip Glass, and other contemporary composers.

The present album is the first ever of rare recordings from the Finnish Radio with the greatest Danish female pianist of all time. During the 50s and 60s, Finnish radio made broadcasts of the pianist France Ellegaard in a wide range of repertoire from little-known 18th-centurychamber music to Romantic concertos by the 'Finnish Rachmaninov', Selim Palmgren. Newly remastered and issued here for the first time in any , these recordings capture Ellegaard at the peak of her powers, in command of a formidable dynamic range and touching everything she plays with lyrical insight.

He was undoubtedly the greatest Danish pianist ever. His fame was legendary and he made some of the most impressive recordings for the Danish HMV and TONO tag together with a giving concerts all over the world. His recorded legacy is among the most fascinating and we are proud to give you the 4th volume with never before published live recordings of Palmgren and Schubert. Volumes 1-3 confined themselves to studio recordings, whereas Volume 4 presents Schiøler in concert. The Second Piano Concerto by Selim Palmgren was performed during a Finnish tour undertaken in 1962 by the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with a 'Danish Week' on Finnish radio. The piece was something of a calling-card for Schiøler on tour in 1925 he had taken it to England, giving performances at the Henry Wood Proms and in Bournemouth under the baton of Sir Dan Godfrey. Cast as a single-movement rhapsody in a loose-limbed, high-Romantic idiom, the concerto was composed in1906-13, taking a Swedish folk dance as it's principal melody, and carries a subtitle, 'TheRiver', which refers to the Kokemaienjoki flowing through the Bothnian town of Pori, where Palmgren was born and spent his early years.