The piece 'Busy Bees and Birds' uses the string quartet to represent the beehive and the solo recorder to represent birdsong, creating an intersection of these two worlds.
Performer Biography
The Messer Quartet, featured on this album, is Denmark's first and only electric string quartet, exploring new sounds with amplification.
Composition History
Some works on this album are being recorded for a second time, in new editions prepared by Mogens Christensen and Pernille Petersen, indicating the importance of Christensen's contribution to the recorder repertoire.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mogens Christensen, the composer, often incorporates 'delight' in sound, melody, dance, birdsong, and nature's phenomena into his recorder music.
Composer Biography
Mogens Christensen's extensive and expert writing for the recorder is influenced by his marriage to superb recorder player Helle Kristensen.
Compositional Technique
In 'Dansebagateller', the recorder player sings and plays two instruments simultaneously in the slow fifth bagatelle, becoming a three-voiced wind player.
Performer Biography
Pernille Petersen, the recorder player, won the prestigious Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Competition in London in 2009, becoming the first Dane ever to do so.
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