VAGN HOLMBOE
Preludes for Sinfonietta Vol. 1
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Giordano Bellincampi

Vagn Holmboe, composer

About
The spirit of folk culture plays an important role in the music of Vagn Holmboe. As was the case with Béla Bartók, folkloristic atudies have here contributed significantly to the compositional process. Holmboe is the most influential Danish compser of the generation after Carl Nielsen and his large output includes twelve symphonies, chamber concertos, and a longs series of extremely fine string quartets.

Reviews
"I cannot imagine these marvelous, recognizably Nordic works being technically better or more convincingly performed than by Giordano Bellincampi and the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen. Da Capo's sound is top-drawer" 10/10 (Classics Today)

"Dacapo are building an extremely interesting catalogue of modern and not so modern Danish music, with occasional excursions into other Scandinavian countries and Northern Europe. They are to be congratulated on their enterprise, and this issue deserves to have a wide circulation. I enjoyed it very much. I need not mention that the recording quality is first rate" ***** (Classical Music on the Web)
Credits
Recorded at Lyngby Park Kapel 7-11 September 1998

Recording producer: Michael Petersen
Executive producer: Hans Abrahamsen
Sound engineer: Preben Iwan
Editing engineer: Preben Iwan

Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S, member of KODA, Denmark

Cover picture: Richard Mortensen: "Rum" (1932)

Dacapo acknowledes with gratitude the financial support of Magister Jürgen Balzers Fond, Beckett Fonden, Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune, Augustinus Fonden and KODA's Collective Blank Tape RemunerationPiano: Steinway & Sons, courtesy of Juhl-Sørensen