About this title: This set of symphonies by Vagn Holmboe is the strongest possible argument that Holmboe is not just the greatest Danish symphonist and not only one of the greatest modernist symphonists: it is proof positive that Vagn Holmboe was the greatest modernist symphonist of all. Committed, compelling, and cogent; driven, dedicated, and deep; linear, lucid, and luminous; massive, magnificent, and monumental: Holmboe is easily in the same league as Shostakovich, Sibelius, Nielsen, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, and Martinu. But Holmboe, through not only the strength of his invention and the intensity of ...
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