Nørgård: Partita Concertante, Op. 23

"Kevin Bowyer seems to have an insatiable appetite for recording. In the middle of the most comprehensive recorded survey of Bach's organ music ever, and with a spate of other discs ranging from Brahms and Schumann to Schoenberg and Sorabji, hardly a month passes without another release arriving for review. Such profligacy might be indicative of enthusiasm rather than musical integrity but not in Bowyer's case, and I find his seemingly inexhaustible repertoire of unusual music a source of endless delight… Bowyer's declared purpose in putting this programme together is to celebrate the Danish town of Odense – only Gade had no direct connection with the place. Bowyer himself has spent a considerable part of this decade there – winning the Odense international organ competition in 1990 and subsequently making most of his recordings there. He hardly needs an excuse for using the Marc Rochester, Gramophone