Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Piano Works featuring Juho Pohjonen
Juho's debut CD on the Dacapo label features the world's first recordings of two works by Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: his Plateaux pour piano et orchestre with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under Ed Spanjaard and his suite for solo piano entitled For Piano.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (b. 1932), one of the most important composers in Scandinavia, is both famous and notorious for simple, contrastful music that often borders on both the entertaining and the absurd. The contrastful and simple are also evident in the first recordings of the two works on this release: the piano concerto Plateaux pour piano et orchestre followed by Holmgreen’s most expansive solo piano piece For Piano. The pianist in both works is the young Finn, Juho Pohjonen. The piano concerto is with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Dutch conductor Ed Spanjaard.
Extracts from Plateaux pour piano et orchestre (V Brut & IX En majeur)Extract from For Piano (I Sound and Silence)