Nordentoft, Anders: Entgegen and other Works for Sinfonietta (Da Capo Audio CD)

ANDERS NORDENTOFT
Works for Sinfonietta
Elgar Howarth
London Sinfonietta

Anders Nordentoft, composer

About
Anders Nordentoft is a pupil of Per Nørgård and Ib Nørholm. In his works Nordentoft challenges himself with wild expressiveness ad tension, but must first and foremost be described as a lyrical and narrative composer. Behind his fine feeling for the immediate and the psysical in music lies a delicate world of poetry and childlike innocence. Sometimes one senses the pain of split between the two temperaments and of the loss of innocence. In 997 Anders Nordentoft recieved the Carl Nielsen Prize.
Reviews
"The City of Threads ist ein ahres Idyll: schöne, sarte, intime Musik. Dieses Stück hast Kultqualitäten" (KLASSIK Heute)

"Es zeigt sich immer wieder: Einige der interessantesten und undogmatischsten jüngeren Komponisten stammen aus Dänemark" (Rondo)

"Sehr plastische und differenzierte Interpretation" ***** (Fono Forum)

Nordentoft's music is full of poetic and delicacies and expressive subtleties ... There is much to admire and enjoy" ***** (BBC Music Magazine)

Credits
Recorded at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London, on 28 February to 1 March 1997

Producer and balancing engineer: Tryggvi Tryggvason
Assistant engineer: Jamie Dunn
Editing and post-production: Emma Stocker and Marian Freeman
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S

Cover picture: Per Kirkeby: "Komposition" (1965)

Recording sponsored by Sonning-Fonden, Danish Composers’ Society/KODA’s Funds for Social and Cultural Purposes, KODA’s Collective Blank Tape Remuneration and an anonymous foundation