Knudage Riisager: Slaraffenland Suites/other Orchestral Works (Da Capo Audio CD)

KNUDÅGE RIISAGER
Orchestral Works
Thomas Dausgaard
Håkon Hardenberger

Knudåge Riisager, composer

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Ars Nova Copenhagen

About
Knudåge Riisager studied in Paris in the 1920s and became a pioneer of the Neo-Classicist style in Danish music. The orchestral works on this CD are from the 1930s and the beginning of the 104+s, and they show Riisager both as a composer inspired by the Neo-Baroque and as an exponent of a decidedly Danish sound.

Reviews
FANFARE CRITICS' CHOICE

The Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra plays brilliantly for Thomas Dausgaard
(American Record Guide)

This will be a must for brass aficionados
(International Record Review)

"Riisager is one of those 'minor masters' who, when I hear his music, makes me ask two questions: Where has this guy been hiding, and what else has he written?" (WHRO-FM, Virginia)

Credits
Recorded in the Concert House, Helsingborg, on 2-6 June 1997

Recording producer: Michael Petersen
Sound engineer: Michael Petersen
Publishers: Edition Samfundet (Darduse) and Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S (others)

Cover painting: "Madame Michelle Bourret dances Harlequin" by J.F. Willumsen (1934), Willumsens Museum

Recording kindly sponsered by KODA’s Collective Blank Tape Remuneration and Danish Composers' Society/KODA's Funds for Social and Cultural Purposes