KARL AAGE RASMUSSEN
The Ballad of Game and Dream
Søren Bagger, clarinet
Elsinore Players
Lars Geisler, cello
Bodil Gümoes, soprano
Frans Hansen, percussion
Erik Kaltoft, piano
Kjeld Mardahl, flute
Erling Møldrup, guitar
Jens Schou, clarinet
Elisabeth Sigurdsson, clarinet
Hans Stengaard, violin

Karl Aage Rasmussen, conductor, composer

About
These recordings were made in the period 1975-1987, when the Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen’s ensemble The Elsinore Players was particularly active, with numerous concerts, world premieres, musicodramatic productions and tours to countries all over the world. These are crucial, watershed works in the composer’s oeuvre, several of them with classic status in Danish and international contemporary music. Rasmussen’s works trace links between intense nostalgia and the spirit of play in a sometimes almost circus-like expressive idiom. The composer himself conducts, and has also been responsible for the production of these unique recordings.

Reviews
Deeply committed, fearless performances … The excitement is palpable.
(Classics Today)

Fanfare The Want List 1993

Credits
Recorded 1975-87 in the Concert Hall at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark

Recording producers: Karl Aage Rasmussen and Erik Kaltoft
Sound engineer: Claus Byrith.
Remastering: Claus Byrith

Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, member of KODA, Denmark

This CD has been released in cooperation with the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus