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2018-01-31 21:33:47
65 year old Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen has today been announced as the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Léonie Sonning Music Foundation Prize. Regarded as Denmark’s highest classical music honour, the bursary is awarded annually to an internationally recognised composer, instrumentalist, conductor or singer. A student of Per Norgard, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Gyorgy Ligeti, Mr Abrahamsen […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2016-06-28 18:21:27
Death of Denmark’s musical outsider
The death has been announced of the Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, aged 83, of cancer. His style, he aid, was ‘new simplicity’. An outsider to the Danish establishment and the prevalent composing styles, his works include a symphony, Antiphony, Tricolore IV, and Incontri; Plateaux pour piano et Orchestre, Triptykon for percussion and orchestra, and Concerto Grosso for string quartet and orchestra. Plateaux pour deux for cello and car horn was a 1970 sensation.
2015-07-22 19:03:43
Here's an exceptionally useful page on the BBC 3 website: a listing of contemporary works recently broadcast on the channel and available for streaming. I'll be sampling Proms premières, giving a listen to Mark Simpson's The Immortal , and revisiting Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's Symphony-Antiphony, which I raved about in Fanfare a couple of decades ago.
2013-04-25 04:29:51
Plateaux Pour Deux And what does it mean, “classical music”? “Classical music” – the nominal term that covers the music from Bach to Xenakis, Tallis to Stockhausen, Copland, Nancarrow, Glass, and Wagner equally alike. What does it mean when asked by some acquaintance, some peer, what music I like, and I answer “classical music”? Do they think I like Brahms, Beethoven, and Mozart? Do they realize I like Prokofiev, Pärt, and Reich? Does my enjoyment of “classical music” make me pretentious? Does it mean I think it’s a higher art than Pop, Rock, and Dance? What do my friends, who have never listened to “classical music”, think when I listen to Schoenberg? Do they know what it means when music is in an indeterminate key? Do they think it’s all for effect rather than a logical result? Is it just noise? Does it expand their view of music or only […]
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