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SH Nielsen - Ophelia Dances | Dacapo 8226581

SH Nielsen - Ophelia Dances

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Label: Dacapo

Cat No: 8226581

Barcode: 0636943658123

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 4th January 2019

Contents

Artists

Bjarke Mogensen (accordion)
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen (organ)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Aarhus Sinfonietta

Conductors

Henrik Vagn Christensen
Ari Rasilainen

Works

Nielsen, Svend

Ophelia Dances: Concerto for accordion and sinfonietta
Symphony no.3
Toccata: Concerto for organ and symphony orchestra

Artists

Bjarke Mogensen (accordion)
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen (organ)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Aarhus Sinfonietta

Conductors

Henrik Vagn Christensen
Ari Rasilainen

About

The idea of building great music from modest or fragmentary means has characterised the work of Nordic composers for generations. In Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen’s (b. 1958) music, that idea finds a particularly exquisite and absolutely contemporary expression. In Toccata the music glances towards a filmic chase-down, whereas Nielsen in Ophelia Dances claims to ‘hear the dancing’ of that fragile character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The album concludes with Nielsen’s single-movement symphony, Symphony No.3, which sets in motion a cumulative journey upwards from low to high: a symphonic Tower of Babel, reaching for the heavens.

Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen himself is a gifted church organist and on the new album he plays the organ solo part in the Toccata

The accordion concerto Ophelia Dances is written for and performed by Bjarke Mogensen, one of the most versatile and sought-after performers on the classical music scene in Denmark and abroad.

The release of the album marks composer Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen 60th birthday in 2018, which has also been celebrated with portrait concerts through the year.

All works on the new album are world premiere recordings.

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