Steen-Andersen: Pretty Sound (Dacapo Audio CD)

• The microphones are right up against the instruments in Simon Steen-Andersen’s five pieces on this CD, so that all the small sounds and noises one normally tries to suppress take on a central role in the music.

• Simon Steen-Andersen belongs to the youngest generation of Danish composers, but he has already made his mark both on the Danish scene and abroad. In recent years the young Danish composer has made his name internationally with totally surprising ways of thinking and a great talent for transforming these ideas into original music that is both different and innovative, but at the same time poetic and overwhelming...