Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig Playing Axel Borup-Jørgensen (2024) [24/192]

The Danish composer Axel Borup-Jorgensen (1924-2012) was one of the 20th century's great "silent individualists." Although largely self-taught, he was the first Danish composer who attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. Without a doubt, the avant-garde of the sixties exerted a strong influence on Borup-Jorgensen's sound world, but he never embraced any specific "ism," following instead his own intuition and his extraordinary sense of organizing sound. Borup-Jorgensen's handwritten scores are of almost calligraphic quality and beauty and reveal him to be a meticulous craftsman and magician of tone color, traits on full display on this very special tribute in honor of the composer's centenary. The vast majority of his work is devoted to chamber music. Here he enjoyed the freedom and inspiration to work closely with the artists and explore new sonic possibilities of their instruments. This album is the final entry in a decade long documentation of the life and work of Axel Borup-Jorgensen's music, a project that has seen multiple critical triumphs, innovative concert installations and even an award-winning video. The animated short film for his masterpiece MARIN won OPUS Klassik AWARD as best DVD/Blu-ray as well as the Danish Radio P2 Prize for Best ALBUM.

TRACKLIST

01. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: Intrada op. 149 (1993-94)
02. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: Trio op. 134 (1988-90)
03. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: Ricostruzioni op. 71 (1973-74)
04. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: Malinconia op. 68 (1972-74)
05. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: Distichon op. 67 (1974)
06. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: Rapsodi op. 114:3 (1994-96)
07. Esbjerg Ensemble & Kristoffer Hyldig - Borup-Jørgensen: “mikroorganismer” op. 20b (1956)



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