new release - Michala Petri

NEW RELEASE
January 2014
…silence is music too…
For many listeners, the name of Axel
Borup-Jørgensen may come as a new
discovery, and yet during his long and
productive creative life (with more than
180 opus number in his catalogue),
he was a seminal figure in contemporary
Danish musical life and the recipient
of a number of the country’s most distinguished awards, including the Carl Nielsen
Prize and the Wilhelm Hansen Prize.
Borup-Jørgensen considered himself
a self-taught composer; while being
thoroughly “modern” in outlook, his
music is organic, expressionist,
aphoristic – even “painterly,” always
embracing the sheer sensual beauty
of the musical tone. Perhaps more than
anything else, it was this “organic”
quality that attracted Borup-Jørgensen
to the recorder, and to Michala Petri.
Catalogue No: 8.226910 UPC: 636943691021
This recording presents Borup-Jørgensen’s complete works for recorder; a chronicle of a 30 year relationship
that began when his daughter, Elisabet Selin became Michala Petri’s first and only private student. Over the
years, Michala and Elisabet performed on a number of critically acclaimed recordings but none as special as
this; as the artists for whom these works were originally composed, their interpretations are both personal and
authoritative. Beginning with the Fantasia for sopranino recorder and harpsichord op. 75 from 1975 and concluding with Pergolato op. 183, composed the year before the composer’s passing, each work carefully explores
the potential of the recorder as a melody instrument and as a source of new forms of acoustic expression.
1 Periphrasis
Op. 156 (1977, rev. 1993-94) for recorder and percussion, Petri; Mortensen
. . . . . 10.52
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Track 2, 6, 8: Danish Radio Broadcast 1988
2 Nachtstück
Op. 118:1 (1987) for tenor recorder, Selin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.07
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Track 4: recorded in Ølstykke Church 1990, producer Karin Jürgensen.
3 Architraves
Op. 83 (1977) for sopranino recorder solo, Petri
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06.47
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4 Zwiegespräch
Op. 131 (1988-89) for sopranino recorder and harpsichord, Selin; Myrhøj
5 Birds Concert
Op. 91:9 (1995) descant recorder solo, Petri
Track 3, 5, 7: studio recording, June 2013, Royal Danish Academy of
Music, producer Leif Hesselberg.
. . . . 05.14
Track 1: studio recording, Sept. 2013, Royal Danish Academy of Music,
6 Fantasia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03.45
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. . . 11.59
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05.11
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06.03
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Op. 75 (1975 rev. 1986-88) for sopranino recorder and harpsichord, Selin; Myrhøj
7 Pergolato
Op. 183 (2011) for treble recorder solo, Petri
8 Notenbüchlein
Op. 82 (1977-79) for descant recorder solo, Selin
Total 60.17
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producer Viggo Mangor.
Edit and Mix: Leif Hesselberg and Viggo Mangor.
* World Premiere Recording