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Stream Signe Asmussen's personal Per Nørgård playlist

Stream Signe Asmussen's personal Per Nørgård playlist

On the occasion of the release of Singing Secrets, we have asked soprano on the album Signe Asmussen to curate a playlist with her personal Nørgård essentials.

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26 May 2021

Last week, the album Singing Secrets was released, shedding new light on the musical journey of one of the greatest composers of northern Europe, Per Nørgård (b. 1932). The album demonstrates the sheer range of Nørgård’s compositions within both chamber and vocal music, with singable and melodious quality as a recurrent theme.

The release is recorded by six high-profile European musicians, all with a close and deeply personal knowledge of Per Nørgård’s music. On the occasion of the release, we have asked soprano on the recording Signe Asmussen to curate a playlist with her personal Nørgård favourites, as an introduction to the composers impressive body of work. 

Signe Asmussen says about Nørgård's music:

"Per's vocal music has followed me through my whole professional carriere, from when I as a young singer had the luck to sing with Ars Nova and with that the great privilege to work directly with him. From the very beginning, it has been an acquaintance that has meant the world to me in my relationship to the contemporary music, because everything Per touches and gives us is organic and meaningfull, despite an oftenly very complex musical idiom.

His choral works, which I know inside out, are some of the most sensuous and beautiful music I have performed. I still know them by heart and therefore they are  represented on this playlist together with a (viewed in the light of his extensive, consistently brilliant production) modest selection of his other works: Sorrow and joy, humour and gravity, goes hand in hand and all of his music is sending out waves of eternity far out in the universe: waves, that in remarkable ways return and hit me (us!) right there where it hurts in the good way!".

Stream the playlist Nørgård Essentials here. 

The album 'Singing Secrets' sheds new light on the otherwise well described composer.
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    Singing Secrets

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