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Composer:
Knudage Riisager

Conductor:
Owain Arwel Hughes

Background: 'Benzin is a joke', said the Danish composer Knudage Riisager of the work he created for the Royal Danish Ballet in 1928 along with his friend, the popular cartoonist known as Storm P. A dubious joke, however, as the ballet was taken off the bill after just three performances.

It is possible that the stage design was too unorthodox, or the plot too thin. Alternatively, perhaps Riisager’s music was quite simply too beautiful to be funny. With this world première recording of the music, at any rate, it is clear that Riisager’s unique talent for colourful, intelligent orchestration evokes the magic of 20th-century orchestral music at its very best.

CATALOGUE NR: 6220527
RECORD LABEL: dacapo
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 28-Apr-2008

COMPOSER: Knudage Riisager
TITLE: Benzin
TRACKS: Benzin op.17 - Ballet i en akt af Robert Storm Petersen. Til Apollon lysets gud. Archæopteryx op.51.
ORCHESTRA: Danish National Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Owain Arwel Hughes

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