Per Nørgård's unrelentingly abstract Nuit des Hommes attempts to grapple with the human consequences of World War I by creating a pseudo-dramatic form out of the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire -- a surrealist French poet who served in the Great War. Nørgård's own label for the piece is "opera(torio)," which is as good an attempt as any to describe ...
The music of Per Nørgård sounds unlike that of quite any other composer. His aesthetics have developed and evolved over his long career, starting in the 1950s, but his uses of the vocabularies of contemporary composition have always borne the distinctive stamp of his fecund and innovative imagination. The three vocal works recorded here date from ...
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