KNUDÅGE RIISAGER
Chamber Music
Knudåge Riisager, composer

Royal Danish String Quartet
Scandinavian Wind Quintet

About
Knudåge Riisager studied in Paris in the 1920s and became a pioneer of the Neo-Classicist style in Danish music. He was an outsider in that sense that he dared to formulate his generation's only weighty alternative to the dominant tradition after Carl Nielsen. The early chamber music works vcan be understood both as provocative miniatures of considerable originality and vitality, and as preliminary studies for later and greater achivements, first and foremost the ballets Qarrtsiluni, Slaraffenland and Månerenen.

Reviews
FANFARE CRITICS' CHOICE

Credits
Recorded at Focus Recording, Copenhagen, on 23 February and 10, 17 and 25 March 1997

Recording producer: Sven Erik Werner
Sound engineer: Hans Nielsen

Cover picture: "The Butterfly" watercolour by Robert Storm Petersen (1910), © Storm P.-Museet