Comments on: Podcast: An Interview With Per Norgard http://blog.naxos.com/2009/02/17/podcast-an-interview-with-per-norgard/ Insights on music from the world's leading classical music label Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Peter Woolf http://blog.naxos.com/2009/02/17/podcast-an-interview-with-per-norgard/comment-page-1/#comment-2068 Peter Woolf Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:03:46 +0000 http://blog.naxos.com/?p=2097#comment-2068 Delighted to have reached this Norgard podcast and I am linking to it in my review of the marvellous new DACAPO CD on my Review Website MusicalPointers.co.uk.<br> I have long admired Norgard & a particular memory was of his talking illuminatingly about his infinite series at London's Almeida Festival where he was featured - but rarely heard in UK nowadays. <br>Listening to this podcast spares me trying to find words myself for these amazingly rich symphonies; and Jorgen Jensen does so very well in his liner notes.<br>Whilst commenting, I wonder if my most recent Scandinavian discovery, Lasse Thoresen, is a musical friend of Norgard's? His music was my discovery of 2008; see article Lasse Thoresen & musical insularity (which applies to Norgard too):- <a href="http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/articles/generaltopics/ThoresenArticle.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/articles/gener...</a><br>Dr Peter Woolf (Editor Musical Pointers UK) Delighted to have reached this Norgard podcast and I am linking to it in my review of the marvellous new DACAPO CD on my Review Website MusicalPointers.co.uk.
I have long admired Norgard & a particular memory was of his talking illuminatingly about his infinite series at London's Almeida Festival where he was featured - but rarely heard in UK nowadays.
Listening to this podcast spares me trying to find words myself for these amazingly rich symphonies; and Jorgen Jensen does so very well in his liner notes.
Whilst commenting, I wonder if my most recent Scandinavian discovery, Lasse Thoresen, is a musical friend of Norgard's? His music was my discovery of 2008; see article Lasse Thoresen & musical insularity (which applies to Norgard too):- http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/articles/gener...
Dr Peter Woolf (Editor Musical Pointers UK)

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