Nightingale Quartet starts Vagn Holmboe series
WTJU Mar 10th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves Danish composer Vagn Holmboe completed 20 string quartets, each a deeply personal statement. I applaud the Nightingale String Quartet for undertaking a traversal of these works. Holmboe was a 20th Century composer, but he didn’t necessarily follow its trends. Holmboe wrote in a mostly neo-classical style. In his mature period (which he began writing quartets), Holmboe used a technique of Jean Sibelius. He would present motifs and thematic fragments that would, over the course of the movement (or work), grow and transform, providing an organic found...
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