Axel Borup-Jørgensen: Marin

Percurama Percussion Ensemble, Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Jens E Christensen (organ), Elisabeth Selin (recorder), Erik Kaltoft (piano), Michala Petri (recorder)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Tim Frederiksen (viola), Arhus Sinfonietta, Thomas Søndergård, Gert Mortensen, Søren Kinch Hansen

Release Date: 10th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: 2110426
Label: OUR Recordings

Opus Klassik Awards

2018

Winner - Music DVD/Blu-ray of the Year - Opera

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Borup-Jørgensen: Marin, Op. 60

Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård

Borup-Jørgensen: Music for percussion + viola, Op. 18

Percurama Percussion Ensemble
Tim Frederiksen (viola)
Gert Mortensen

Borup-Jørgensen: Für Cembalo Und Orgel, Op. 133 No. 2

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Jens E Christensen (organ)

Borup-Jørgensen: Nachtstück, Op. 118 No. 1

Elisabeth Selin (recorder)

Borup-Jørgensen: winter pieces, Op. 30b

Erik Kaltoft (piano)

Borup-Jørgensen: Pergolato Op. 183

Michala Petri (recorder)

Borup-Jørgensen: Sirenernes kyst (Coast of Sirens), Op. 100

Arhus Sinfonietta
Søren Kinch Hansen

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The Danish composer Axel Borup-Jorgensen (1924-2012) was one of the 20th century’s great Scandinavian “silent individualists.” Born in Denmark and raised in Sweden, he was largely self-taught as a composer, emerging on the international spotlight in 1965 when his Nordic Summer Pastoral won first prize in the competition for a short orchestral work held by Danmarks Radio. While the avant-garde of the sixties exerted a strong influence on Borup-Jorgensen's sound world, he always followed his own intuition and obeyed his extraordinary sense of organizing sound combined with a passionate, almost mystical regard for nature. Borup-Jorgensen's music exists on the margins of silence, punctuated with searing dramatic eruptions, all of which can be heard in his orchestral masterpiece Marin (1970). Borup-Jorgensen massive ‘sea symphony’ exists in its own unique world of sound - sometimes in as many as 55 separate voices - and is one of the most challenging and meticulously detailed orchestral textures ever set to paper. Such visceral music demands visual expression and as part of this very special DVD/SACD release, Lückow Film, and an international team of animators directed by Morten Bartholdy bring Borup-Jorgensen's musical world to life. Also included is the new film AXEL - a portrait of both the composer, and of mid-century Danish modernism featuring interviews with other composers, colleagues and friends, as well as excerpts from recent live performances of the music by Axel Borup-Jorgensen.

Axel Borup-Jørgensen: Marin

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