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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Vagn Holmboe - Concertos for Violin, Viola and Orchestra (Various Artists)


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Composer: Vagn Holmboe
  • (01) Concerto for Viola, Op. 189
  • (03) Concerto for Orchestra
  • (04) Concerto for Violin No. 2, Op. 139

Lars Anders Tomter, viola
Erik Heide, violin

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

Date: 2013
Label: Dacapo
https://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recordings/holmboe-concertos

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Review

Holmboe’s reputation may rest ultimately on his symphonies and string quartets but he was prolific in a vast array of forms, not least choral music – five volumes of the Liber canticorum – and, of course, 13 numbered concertos and a clutch of unnumbered ones. The three collected on Dacapo’s latest orchestral foray into Holmboe are from this last group, all receiving their first recordings.

The Viola Concerto (1992) is a lithe and energetic affair, a typical example of late Holmboe. Its dynamic, vigorous tattoo brings that of the Twelfth Symphony to mind and the work builds on this rhetorical statement through a kaleidoscopic sequence of motivic and textural developments that is a model of concision. That this is one of the finest viola concertos ever penned I have not the slightest doubt, and it is thrown off with dazzling virtuosity by Tomter and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under Russian-born, Finnish-resident Dima Slobodeniouk, who displays a real affinity for Holmboe’s idiom. The early, single-span Concerto for Orchestra (1929) is less characteristic of the mature composer, the rhetoric less smoothly assimilated into the musical flow, but is a hugely vital creation none the less. The Second Violin Concerto (1979), a diptych like that for viola, is more reflective in tone, closer in spirit to the Eleventh Symphony, beautifully laid out for the instruments and executed compellingly by Heide.

-- Guy Rickards, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/June13/Holmboe_dacapo.htm
https://www.allmusic.com/album/vagn-holmboe-concertos-mw0002498800
https://www.audaud.com/vagn-holmboe-concertos-concerto-for-viola-concerto-for-orchestra-concerto-for-violin-no-2-lars-anders-tomter-viola-erik-heide-violin-norrkoping-sym-orch-dima-slobodeniouk/

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Vagn Holmboe (20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher. Holmboe studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Knud Jeppesen (theory) and Finn Høffding (composition). He composed about 370 works, including 13 symphonies, three chamber symphonies, four symphonies for strings, 20 string quartets, numerous concertos, one opera, and the late series of preludes for chamber orchestra, as well as much choral and other music. His students included Per Nørgård, Ib Nørholm, Bent Lorentzen, Arne Nordheim, Egil Hovland and Alan Stout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagn_Holmboe

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