Composer: Matias Vestergård
Performer: Signe Asmussen, Esbjerg Ensemble
Conductor: Rei Munakata, Magnus Larsson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dacapo
Catalogue: 8226546
Release: 2022
Size: 1.72 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
3 Idylls
01. No. 1, Pifa
02. No. 2, Hetärengräber
03. No. 3, Caccia
6 Elegies
04. No. 1, Frozen. Strict
05. No. 2, Nervous. Urgent
06. No. 3, With Desperation
07. No. 4, Funereal
08. No. 5, Fleeting. Unwinding
09. No. 6, Adagio nach J.S. Bach (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 614)
Træk
10. I. Bastard Wing
11. II. Ghost Movement
12. III. Strejffugle
2 Løppenthin-sange
13. No. 1, Vind
14. No. 2, Søvn
Francesca Nocturnes
15. A
16. B
17. C
18. D
Even as he emerges onto Denmark’s new music scene as a major new voice, Matias Vestergård is a rarity on it: a composer fluent, flexible, prolific and poly-stylistic who draws on genres ranging from hymnody to cabaret while probing some of the basic theories of sound and its production.
The music recorded here was written during Vestergård’s years at the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, charting a process of self-discovery described by the composer as “my younger self trying to deal with the serious classical music heritage I love”.