Holmboe: Recorder Concerto / Flute Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

Featuring

Owain Arwel Hughes
Dan Laurin
Anne Bisgaard
Jesper Mikkelsen
Manuela Wiesler
Aalborg Symfoniorkester

Vagn Holmboe

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Performer Biography

Dan Laurin, a recorder player, has commissioned several works for his instrument and researches recorder acoustics and sound techniques, promoting new ideas about the instrument's expressive potential.

Compositional Technique

In the Concerto for Recorder, Strings, Celesta and Vibraphone, Holmboe asks the soloist to sing while blowing in a short passage, creating different effects depending on the soloist's gender.

Performer Biography

The Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1943, has performed with numerous world-famous soloists including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lord Menuhin, and José Carreras.

Composer Biography

Vagn Holmboe, a Danish composer, achieved national and international recognition for his thirteen symphonies and twenty string quartets, which are considered the most important of their genre composed in Denmark since Nielsen.

Composer Biography

Vagn Holmboe's first concerto, a small violin and orchestra piece from 1938, remains unperformed, while his last, a concerto for string quartet and string orchestra from 1995-96, premiered six weeks after his death.

Composition History

The Concerto for Recorder, Strings, Celesta and Vibraphone was written in 1974 at the initiative of Danish child prodigy recorder player Michala Petri, and was dedicated to her.