Esbjerg Ensemble – Music of the Abyss (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:37 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rued Langgaard’s (1893-1952) inner division can be experienced at its extreme in the chamber music written between 1913 and 1924, in which the secure world of his youth is undercut by a dark musical understream. This is most apparent in the work for piano, Music of the Abyss, which is presented here in a transcription for chamber ensemble by Allan Gravgaard Madsen (born 1984) of which this is the first recording. This meeting between Langgaard and Gravgaard brings to a climax the work’s view of modern man’s destructive strength in a crazy ride towards the abyss.
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Esbjerg Ensemble – Idylls, Elegies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 58:19 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Even as he emerges onto Denmark’s new music scene as a major new voice, Matias Vestergård is a rarity on it: a composer fluent, flexible, prolific and poly-stylistic who draws on genres ranging from hymnody to cabaret while probing some of the basic theories of sound and its production.
The music recorded here was written during Vestergård’s years at the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, charting a process of self-discovery described by the composer as “my younger self trying to deal with the serious classical music heritage I love”.
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