Axel Borup-Jørgensen DVD+SACD 2017 Marin - An animated fantasy / Axel - A portrait film / Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård / OUR Recordings – 2.110426

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Audio: Stereo

Total Runtime: 58 (DVD) + 78 (SA-CD) minutes

English Description:

It is perhaps the most sensational new music release of the year: The breathtakingly beautiful video animation for Marin, the only composition for a large (rather gigantic) symphony orchestra that the Danish modernist Axel Borup-Jørgensen left behind, perfectly combines video art with top-class music . On DVD, the unique piece is complemented by a detailed biography of the composer, in which his contemporaries such as Per Nørgård or Michala Petri speak in an interview. The SACD also included offers multi-channel and hi-res versions of Marin and other pieces by Borup-Jørgensen. An incredibly lovingly made, amazing, really valuable publication that actually deserves a prize! 

The Danish composer Axel Borup-Jorgensen (1924-2012) was one of the 20th century s great Scandinavian silent individualists. Born in Denmark and raised in Sweden, he was largely self-taught as a composer, emerging on the international spotlight in 1965 when his Nordic Summer Pastoral won first prize in the competition for a short orchestral work held by Danmarks Radio. While the avant-garde of the sixties exerted a strong influence on Borup-Jorgensen's sound world, he always followed his own intuition and obeyed his extraordinary sense of organizing sound combined with a passionate, almost mystical regard for nature. Borup-Jorgensen's music exists on the margins of silence, punctuated with searing dramatic eruptions, all of which can be heard in his orchestral masterpiece Marin (1970). Borup-Jorgensen massive sea symphony exists in its own unique world of sound - sometimes in as many as 55 separate voices - and is one of the most challenging and meticulously detailed orchestral textures ever set to paper. Such visceral music demands visual expression and as part of this very special DVD/SACD release, Lückow Film, and an international team of animators directed by Morten Bartholdy bring Borup-Jorgensen's musical world to life. Also included is the new film AXEL - a portrait of both the composer, and of mid-century Danish modernism featuring interviews with other composers, colleagues and friends, as well as excerpts from recent live performances of the music by Axel Borup-Jorgensen.

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*Super Audio CD (SACD) is a read-only optical disc format for audio storage, introduced in 1999. It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics, and intended to be the successor to the Compact Disc (CD) format. An SACD is designed to be played on an SACD player. A hybrid SACD contains a Red Book Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) layer that can be played on a standard CD player.