As a pupil of Per Nørgård and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Hans Abrahamsen has continued to develop the "New Simplicity" with which his teachers worked in the 1960s. With Abrahamsen this has led to a small but concentrated output of very original works. His music exhibits imagination, moving lyricism and spirituality.
Hans Abrahamsen has almost exclusively composed instrumental music, and among his orchestral works Nacht und Trompeten has achieved international success. Abrahamsen started by playing the French horn, but at a very young age he showed a remarkable talent for composition.
02/05/2013
03/11/2005 Politiken
13/01/2005 Politiken
15/09/1994 International Record Review
15/09/1994 American Record Review
15/09/1994 BBC Music Magazine
15/07/1992 BBC Radio
CD 8.226108 (2013)
CD 8.226541 (2007)
Danish recorder works from the past 50 years played by an outstanding trio
CD 8.226007 (2005)
Monumental collection of new works for solo cello – virtuosic and powerful!
CD 8.226010 (2004)
Major works by the enigmatic master of contemporary Danish music
CD 8.224019 (2004)
CD 8.224155 (2001)
Three of Hans Abrahamsen’s most important works, including the wind quintet Walden
CD 8.224080 (1997)
The London Sinfonietta plays four of Abrahamsen’s most exquisite works from the 1980s
CD 8.224001 (1994)
Carl Nielsen’s masterpiece and more recent quintets by Abrahamsen, Holmboe and Nørgård
DCCD 9006 (1992)