Johannes Søe Hansen, Christina Bjørkøe – Works for Violin & Piano (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Johannes Søe Hansen, Christina Bjørkøe – Works for Violin & Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Dacapo

All of Vagn Holmboe’s (1909-1996) works for violin and piano are on this CD, which contains the three violin sonatas and a handful of other small pieces for the same instruments and for solo violin. This music is from the chronological extremes of his long career, which lasted from the 1920s until the 1990s. The violin was Holmboe’s own instrument and his violin works show a decidedly extroverted love of music-making. Much of the music is inspired by the folk music that Holmboe encountered and studied at the beginning of the 1930s in the Balkans and Transylvania, but also by the relatively neglected Danish fiddling tradition.

“With top-notch sound, this is a release the excellence of which puts considerations of cost into perspective…hearing the Third Sonata’s opening Moderato dissolve into serenity [is] priceless.” (Gramophone Magazine)

“Johannes Søe Hansen strikes the perfect balance between virtuosic and edgy bravura and a wonderful, singing sweetness” (The Strad)

Tracklist:

01. Johannes Søe Hansen – Romance in D Major, Op. 43 (02:03)
02. Johannes Søe Hansen – Nordic Dance (02:49)
03. Johannes Søe Hansen – Erotikon, Op. 56 (03:37)
04. Johannes Søe Hansen – Mazurka, Op. 35 (04:47)
05. Johannes Søe Hansen – Romance in G Major, Op. 50 “Sensommer” (05:39)
06. Johannes Søe Hansen – Witches’ Dance (02:58)
07. Johannes Søe Hansen – (Version for Violin & Piano) (07:23)
08. Johannes Søe Hansen – (Arr. for Violin & Piano) (02:29)
09. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 1, The Shepherd Lad (02:27)
10. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 2, Pantomime (01:59)
11. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 3, Yes-Men (02:54)
12. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 4, Menuetto (03:55)
13. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 4, Mosquito Dance (01:04)
14. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 5, Eroticism (04:35)
15. Johannes Søe Hansen – No. 2 (01:39)
16. Johannes Søe Hansen – Grief (03:49)
17. Johannes Søe Hansen – Ballerina, Op. 51 (02:09)
18. Johannes Søe Hansen – Novelettes, Op. 26: No. 1, Allegro non troppo (03:13)
19. Johannes Søe Hansen – Novelettes, Op. 26: No. 2, Andante sostenuto (03:42)
20. Johannes Søe Hansen – Novelettes, Op. 26: No. 3, Allegretto grotesco (03:14)
21. Johannes Søe Hansen – Novelettes, Op. 26: No. 4, Allegro non troppo (03:03)
22. Johannes Søe Hansen – Petite valse (03:30)
23. Johannes Søe Hansen – Berceuse (02:10)

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