Vagn Holmboe: Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar Jesper Sivebaek / Bolette Roed / Johannes Søe Hansen

• 1I. Preludio Allegro rubato03:58
• 2II. Adagio03:30
• 3III. Fugato Allegro giocoso02:28
• 4IV. Intermezzo Tempo giusto02:43
• 5V. Rondo Allegro moderato03:01
• 6I. Moderato02:26
• 7II. Allegro giocoso01:37
• 8III. Andante02:19
• 9IV. Allegro rubato01:42
• 10V. Poco adagio01:57
• 11VI. Allegro01:30
• 12I. Rubato02:13
• 13II. Allegro01:12
• 14III. Andante02:25
• 15IV. Allegro piacevole01:43
• 16V. Andante - Allegro - Andante02:28
• 17I. Liberamente Animato02:43
• 18II. Liberamente Andante con moto03:10
• 19III. Liberamente Allegro con brio02:32
• 20I. Andantino03:06
• 21II. Moderato01:33
• 22III. Brioso01:22
• 23IV. Poco adagio02:17
• 24V. Lento - Allegro - Lento - Allegro02:38
• 25Cancion de siega Tranquillo - con moto02:15
• 26Cancion de siega Allegro leggiero01:04
• 27Cancion de siega Adagio - tempo primo02:17
• 28Danza Allegro piacevole - meno mosso - tempo primo02:53
• 29No. 1. The Three Ravens (England)00:51
• 30No. 2. Allegro (Israel)00:35
• 31No. 3. L'etait une goelette (It was a schooner) (France)01:01
• 32No. 4. Dans les prisons de Nantes (In the prisons of Nantes) (France)01:01
• 33No. 5. Andante (Ukraine)00:51
• 34No. 6. J'ai descendu dans mon jardin (I went down into my Garden) (France)00:31
• 35No. 7. Mi fa'r han ga mae femten far (My father, he gave me fifteen sheep) (Denmark)00:52
• 36Encore Moi j'ai cinq sous (I got me five sous) (France)00:49
• Total Runtime01:11:33

Info for Vagn Holmboe: Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar

When the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe (1909-96) started to write guitar music, he had already been composing for half a century. Captivated by this ancient instrument, Holmboe wrote two beautiful sonatas and a number of solo pieces as well as duets for guitar and other instruments, combining his love of simple, transparent structures and organic musical development with the folklore of foreign cultures and his own Nordic roots.

“If you are searching - in terms of music and its presentation - for exemplary craftsmanship, subtlety of nuance and a profoundly satisfying experience, you need hear no further.” (Gramophone)

“the composer is not at his most compelling when writing for guitar, the idioms usually sounding slightly contrived in Scandinavian (and for that matter eastern European) hands, yet Jesper Siveboek's recital, with friends, is still a very pleasant way to spend a reflective hour or so.” (MusicWeb International)

“A composer of genuine vision…whose standards of craftsmanship were simply second to none.” (Classics Today)

Johannes Søe Hansen, violin
Bolette Roed, recorder
Jesper Sivebæk, guitar

Recorded at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the concert hall, March and July 2011 and February 2012 Recording
Producer: Claus Due
Sound engineer: Mark Ford
Mastering: Preben Iwan

Johannes Søe Hansen
trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Professor Milan Vitek. He is Concertmaster of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1992. As a soloist Johannes Søe Hansen has performed with all the Danish symphony orchestras, as well as several of the other Nordic orchestras and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He has an important parallel career as a chamber musician with concerts at home and abroad. For Dacapo Johannes Søe Hansen has recorded among other things Vagn Holmboe’s works for violin and piano and Niels Otto Raasted’s solo sonatas. Johannes Søe Hansen was a prizewinner in the International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition 1984. In 1988, he was awarded the ‘major’ Jacob Gade Grant and the ‘minor’ Sonning Prize.

Bolette Roed
graduated from the advanced solo performance class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2004. Her repertoire ranges from medieval to contemporary music and naturally involves improvisation, folk and world music. She performs in various ensembles like Alpha, Gáman and Lune Rousse. Bolette Roed has been a soloist with Concerto Copenhagen, Arte Dei Suonatori, the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Danish Orchestra. Bolette Roed has recorded several CDs, for example Alpha, for Dacapo. She has previously won a major scholarship from the Jacob Gade Foundation, and the Danish broadcasting corporation DR nominated her as “DR Artist of the Year” in 2005. In 2011, Bolette Roed was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Music Prize.

Jesper Sivebæk
trained at the West Jutland Academy of Music (today The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark) with associate professor Jørgen Bjørslev, and graduated from the soloist class of the Malmö Academy of Music under Professor Per-Olof Johnsson. Jesper Sivebæk has extensive concert engagements as a soloist and chamber musician and is co-founder of the Scandinavian Guitar Duo, which won the Danish Broadcasting Association’s Chamber Music Competition in 1993. Jesper Sivebæk has played first performances of Danish guitar concertos by Karl Aage Rasmussen, Lars Heegård, Ulrik Neumann, Anders Koppel and Poul Ruders. He has won prizes at international solo guitar competitions in Spain, France and Italy. Since 2007, Jesper Sivebæk has been an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He has been a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Malmö Academy of Music, the Academy of Music in Tallinn and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in the USA. For Dacapo Jesper Sivebæk has recorded a CD with guitar works by Poul Ruders.

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