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Danish recorder virtuoso Michala Petri had collaborated with a choir several times during her career, but she found her 2007 experience with Swedish composer Daniel Börtz (b. 1943) especially rewarding. Following the Stockholm premiere of Börtz’s Nemesis divina, Petri and guitarist husband Lars Hannibal, who produces her recordings for their own label, actively began to seek out further choral...
These are all world premiere recordings and feature the combination of Michala Petri’s flute, the Danish National Vocal Ensemble directed by Stephen Layton, and some enjoyable new music from Swedish composer Daniel Börtz, Latvian Ugis Praulins, the Dane Peter Bruun and Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen.
Praulins’ 2010 The Nightingale takes a text after Hans Christian Andersen (in English)...
Grenzlos nah am Geschehen
Für die dänische Flötistin Michala Petri scheint nichts unm¨glich. Jetz singt sie wie eine Nachtingall, und die klangtechnik brilliert dazu.
Wenn Michala Petri auftritt, dann lässt sie meist in irgendeiner Weise aufhoren. Da ist keine spur von Gewöhnung und Poutine – und dies, obwohl die Dänin ein Instrument spielt, bei dem mancher gähnend abwinkt: Blockflöte. Die...
Would that all “concept albums,” particularly those of new music, come out as well as this. Recorder player Michaela Petri, a veteran of at least two decades’ worth of performances around the globe, was absolutely thrilled with 2007 the world premiere of Daniel Börtz’s Nemesis in Stockholm, so much so that she began to think of doing an album of modern music including the recorder with a vocal...
Layton in Denmark for another Baltic Voyage
This new disc reinforces the extraordinary strengths of the Danish choral tradition. Here are voices of mature suppleness and agility, surveying new music by a Nordic quartet of a Dane, a Latvian, a Swede and a Faroese, stirring from a deep wellspring of creativity and all sung in English. The oldest piece recorded here (a mere four years old) is ...
You don’t find many discs of music for recorder and a capella voices. Veteran Danish virtuoso Michala Petri joins forces with a crack Danish choir in a fascinating selection of new works. The delight lies in hearing just how well the unadorned clarity of Petri’s tone blends with the vocals. Perhaps it’s less of a surprise when you’re reminded of the recorder’s purity – no valves, reeds or...