The strongest features of Niels Viggo Bentzon's music are its spontaneity and wit, and these qualities run through his highly diverse body of work. A prolific composer who was guided more by intuition than by trends or schools, Bentzon occasionally dabbled in experimentation. However, his oeuvre largely reflects a neo-Classical style, essentially ...
Only in Denmark is it known that composer Niels Viggo Bentzon was a also quite a good pianist, and in the late '40s Bentzon was playing so much piano that the general impression was that he would abandon his fledgling career as a composer to enter the concert arena full-time. But ultimately his desire to compose won out over his taste for the ...
Jeffrey Powers' recital of music for the horn and piano, Into the 21st Century, is something of a misnomer; three of the four pieces were written in the twentieth century, one as early as 1942, and none are forward looking from a musical standpoint. That being said, the CD is a thoroughly engaging presentation of some very attractive music, played ...
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