JØRGEN BENTZON
Racconti
Jørgen Bentzon, composer

Randers Chamber Orchestra

About
Jørgen Bentzon, who was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and Sigfrid Karg-Elert, was one of the most significant Danish composers of the generation after Carl Nielsen. In the 1920s and 1930s he developed a distinctive instrumental texture known as character polyphony, which he tried out and developed in his six Racconti. Alongside his composing activities Bentzon taught at Københavns Folke-Musikskole, a school for "people's Music" that he had helped to found in 1931.

Reviews
***** (BBC Music Magazine)

Her er megen charme at hente (Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten)

Credits
Recorded at Værket, Randers, on 13-16 May 1998

Recording producer: Lars Ole Bonde
Executive producer: David Riddell
Sound engineer: Claus Byrith

Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S

Cover painting: Jais Nielsen: 'Silhuetklipperen' (1918)