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Poul Rovsing Olsen: The Planets – Works for Voice & Instruments

11/16/2018, 12 Tracks, 1:05:21

Featuring

  • Helge Slaatto
  • Anette Slaatto
  • Jonathan Slaatto
  • Signe Asmussen
  • Ulla Miilmann Jorgensen
  • Frederik Munk Larsen
  • Christian Martínez
  • Poul Rovsing Olsen

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Compositional Technique

In A Dream in Violet, the composer used an eight-tone scale at the beginning, gradually modulating away from it and only returning to it in the final minutes of the music.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Planets, op. 80, was inspired by a 15th-century block book with texts and drawings about the planets, found in Lerchenborg's library.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

Pour une Viole d'Amour is written for the viola d'amore, a string instrument known for its gentle sound and sympathetic strings, which had its heyday in the 18th century.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Poul Rovsing Olsen was a professional ethnomusicologist who conducted research in Arab countries, India, Egypt, Turkey, and Greenland, and was appointed archivist of the Danish Folklore Archives.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Poul Rovsing Olsen, the composer, studied under highly regarded teacher Nadia Boulanger and renowned composer Olivier Messiaen in Paris.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Poul Rovsing Olsen's final composition, A Dream in Violet, was commissioned by Lerchenborg Music Days for Københavns Kammertrio.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Poul Rovsing Olsen's music combines elements of Western and Oriental traditions, bringing the sounds of the Orient into Danish music.

Source: Booklet

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