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1. Vagn Holmboe () counts as one of the greatest 20th-century composers of string quartets. Holmboe's music is dynamic, organic and alive, and his musical language is rooted in the Nordic landscape but also reveals his keen interest in the folk music of Eastern Europe. This unique collection comprises all Holmboe's string quartets in the/5(14).

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2. About. Vagn Holmboe counts as one of the greatest 20th-century composers of string quartets. Holmboe's music is dynamic, organic and alive, and his musical language is rooted in the Nordic landscape but also reveals his keen interest in the folk music of Eastern Europe.

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3. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of The Complete String Quartets on Discogs. Label: Dacapo Records - • Format: 7x, CD Box Set Compilation • Country: Denmark • Genre: Classical • Style: Modern Vagn Holmboe, The Kontra Quartet ‎– The Complete String Quartets Label: Dacapo Records ‎– 8 3/5(2).

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4. Vagn Holmboe () counts as one of the greatest 20th-century composers of string quartets. Holmboe's music is dynamic, organic and alive, and his musical language is rooted in the Nordic landscape but also reveals his keen interest in the folk music of Eastern Europe. This unique collection comprises all Holmboe's string quartets in the.

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5. Throughout the years of the string quartets Holmboe collaborated closely with Den-mark's leading quartet ensembles: The Koppel Quartet and the Copenhagen String Quartet, who gave most of the works their first performances, and the Kontra Quartet, who at the end of Holmboe's life began this first complete recording of all the works.

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6. The string quartet is a superficially severe and ascetic medium if marginally less so than the string trio or sonata for solo violin. Even so Holmboe’s twenty quartets are masterly examples, modelled on Haydn, carrying a Bartok inflection and irradiated with a sense of the natural world.

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7. Holmboe's music is dynamic, organic and alive, and his musical language is rooted in the Nordic landscape but also reveals his keen interest in the folk music of Eastern Europe. This unique collection comprises all Holmboe's string quartets in the highly acclaimed recording by the Kontra Quartet, who enjoyed a close collaboration with the composer/5(10).

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8. Vagn Holmboe was a natural quartet composer. This set contains all 20 of his numbered works in the genre, plus two other pieces. Holmboe’s original source of inspiration for these pieces was Bartók–you can hear this clearly in the Third quartet, with its five-movement “arch” form (slow-fast-moderate-fast-slow)–but he quickly moved beyond more obviously symmetrical structures as he.

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9. HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 7, 8 and 9 (Kontra Quartet) DK

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