ERIK NORBY
Orchestral Works
Anne-Lise Berntsen
Toke Lund Christiansen
Owain Arwel Hughes

Erik Norby, composer

Aalborg Symphony Orchestra

About
Erik Norby trained as a composer in the 1960s with Per Nørgård and has since then taught theory at the Danish music academies. His music is unlike that of most of his Danish contemporaries. Norby has rejected his earlier serialist works in favour of his later unashamedly programmatic compositions, for example the evocative symphonic poem Regnbueslangen, which is performed regularly. Erik Norby is one of the most striking song composers of his age, and writing for the voice has always been one of his prime concerns, in which he can combine his melodic talent with poetic instincts and sensitivity to detail.

8. Illumination for flute and orchestra (1978)
Reviews
RÉPERTOIRE 10

"Excellent performances" (Gramophone)

"More Norby please" (Fanfare)

Credits
Recorded at Symfonien, Aalborg, on 3-5 February 1997

Recording producer: Henrik Sleiborg
Sound Engineer: Niels Larsen
Editing engineers: Peter Bo Nielsen and Henrik Sleiborg

Publishers: Engstrøm & Sødring (Södergran-Lieder), Edition Samfundet (Corps celeste) and Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S (Illumination)

Cover painting: Per Kirkeby: "Composition" (1968)

Recording kindly sponsored by Danish Composers’ Society/KODA’s funds for Social and Cultural Purposes and KODA’s Collective Blank Tape Renumeration

This CD is made in cooperation with the Danmarks Radio