Mogens Dahl, the conductor, has developed the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir into one of Scandinavia's leading vocal ensembles.
Recording & Production
This album features world premiere recordings, captured live at Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, on November 5, 2023.
Album & Artwork
Dacapo Live is a series of concert recordings that capture music exactly where it happened – in the moment, in front of an audience.
Composition History
The work Die Erfüllung was commissioned by English music therapist Jane Brewer, who was associated with the anthroposophical movement.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Holmboe's musical thinking centered on concepts like magic, ecstasy, and the cosmic, as revealed in his private letters and diaries.
Critical Reception
Die Erfüllung remained largely unknown to the public because it was written for the Steiner movement, and its text's expansiveness and obscurity would likely have been met with incomprehension.
Composer Biography
Vagn Holmboe, the composer, was deeply spiritual and familiar with Hindu scriptures and Buddhist ideas like reincarnation and cosmic unity from his teenage years.
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