Else Marie Pade: The Orchestral Album

Featuring

Joachim Gustafsson
Christina Åstrand
Michael Frank Møller
Malmö Opera Orchestra
Else Marie Pade

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Performer Biography

Christina Åstrand, the violinist on this album, has been concertmaster of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra since 1993, winning the position at age 22.

Performer Biography

Michael Frank Møller, the trumpet soloist, received much of his basic music education in the Tivoli Youth Guard at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.

Recording & Production

Dacapo Records, Denmark's national record label, was founded in 1989 to release the best of Danish music, with most of its recordings being world premieres.

Composer Biography

Else Marie Pade (1924-2016) was a Danish composer who, despite a diploma in piano, felt isolated from the conservative Danish musical scene and oriented herself towards continental European styles.

Performer Biography

Joachim Gustafsson, the conductor, is the chief conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá and has worked with most Swedish opera houses and orchestras.

Historical Context

Else Marie Pade's electronic works often reflected traumas from her experience as a woman who resisted the German occupation, having been imprisoned by the Gestapo in Frøslevlejren (the Frøslev Camp).

Cultural Impact

The release of these orchestral works by Else Marie Pade helps balance the male-dominated orchestral repertoire by presenting works from the 1950s and 1960s written by a Danish woman.