Per Nørgård, who was extensively thought to be probably the most distinguished Danish composer since Nielsen, handed away final Wednesday, Might 28 in Copenhagen. He was 92.
Nørgård left behind a list of music which incorporates eight symphonies, six operas, and quite a few chamber and concertante works. He mentioned that his music resides inside “the universe of the Nordic thoughts.” In his youth, he corresponded with Jean Sibelius.
Starting within the Nineteen Sixties, Nørgård developed a serial method often known as the infinity sequence. Based mostly on fractal geometry, the system, which permeates a lot of Nørgård’s works, leads to a way of cosmic unity.
The infinity sequence brings order to Per Nørgård’s Symphony No. 3, accomplished in 1975. Set in two massive sections, it unfolds as an enormous, majestic Scandinavian soundscape, paying homage to the music of Sibelius. Structurally, the Symphony is tied to the Harmonic Sequence and the Fibonacci Sequence. However that is music to be skilled quite than analyzed. Within the second motion, voices enter step by step and swell to kind a celestial chorale. Afro-Cuban dance rhythms, and a quote from Schubert’s Dubist die Ruh, emerge and vanish in what one commentator described as “new, fantastical, pleasurable, generally colliding surprise world of sound.”
This recording options the Danish Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, Radio Choir and Vocal Ensemble, carried out by Thomas Dausgaard:
Recordings
- Nørgård: Symphony No. 3, Thomas Dausgaard, Danish Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, Radio Choir and Vocal Ensemble Naxos
Featured Picture: {photograph} by Lars Skaaning
