Publication year 2008
Catalogue no. B.0569
Duration 12 minutes
Concerto Grosso
(1994)
(1994)
Publication year 2008
Catalogue no. B.0569
Duration 12 minutes
The Concerto Grosso for string quartet and symphonic ensemble is from 1990 (with subsequent revisions from 1995) and was commissioned by the Danish Radio for the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet. The symphonic ensemble consists of eight winds, ten brass, harp and piano, four percussion, and two double basses (but no other strings!); it functions as a kind of tutti vis á vis the string quartet’s concertino. The sound and content of the work is highly varied, ranging between the extremes of tempestuous brutality and introvert understatement; here the listener is transported far away from the almost puritan restraint of New Simplicity as it was in the sixties. Thus, the string quartet is “allowed to exploit the sound of the instruments and to articulate itself with artistic refinement,” and it is “surrounded by wild sound bodies, almost like a jungle.” Though the macrostructure is a single unbroken whole with a certain suggestion of arching form, the music is clearly subdivided into shorter sections or even movements, recognizably identified by the different instruments and groups of instruments with which the string quartet interacts. Incidentally, the title of the work refers not just to the opposition of tutti and concertino but to the presence of other more or less obvious baroque clichs (cf. the composer’s characterization: “Vivaldi on Safari”). Among these are ritornelli and the occasional employment of straightforward functional harmony, which is especially noticeable halfway through. Everything, however, has passed through Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s special filter, which fascinatingly transforms “the well known” into “the apparently well known.” Baroque‑like concertante sections, jazzy chords, passages of fragile transparency etc. are in reality all different realizations of a common base material. Though only six or seven years old this work has already acquired the status of a modern Danish classic. It has been performed in Stockholm and Oslo among other places, and in 1996 the jury chose it for inclusion in the programme of the ISCM Festival in Copenhagen.
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra Open Instrumentation
Dværgen og andre
1984 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
7 minutes
2.1.2.1/2.2.1.0/perc/archi
Fynske Stemmer
1995 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
18 minutes
choir, 1.1.1.0/0.1.0.0/perc/1.1.1.1.1
Koncert for violin og orkester
1952 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
10 minutes
Violin solo + 2.2.2.2/3.1.1.0/timp/perc/archi
Divertimento
1955 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
13 minutes
2 trp, trb
To stykker for ti horn
1977 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
7 minutes
10 French horns
Klaverkoncert
1953 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
18 minutes
Piano solo + 2.1.2.2/3.1.0.0/timp/perc/archi
Concertino for 2 celli og lille orkester
1990 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
8 minutes
2 celli soli + fl, vl I, vlc
Miniature suite
1948 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
Violin and Piano
Suite for strygere
1944 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
12 minutes
String Orchestra
Gårdhanen og vejrhanen
1996 • Peder Holm
Solo
15:15 minutes
Narrator and choir (equal voices)
Strygekvartet nr. 4
1956 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
18 minutes
String Quartet
Strygekvartet nr. 6
1976 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
String Quartet
Strygekvartet nr. 3
1951 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
15 minutes
String Quartet
Capriccio
1959 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
4 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.1.2.1/timp/3 perc/arpa/archi
Sonate for orgel
2000 • Peder Holm
Solo
16 minutes
Organ solo
Fire korsange
1984 • Peder Holm
Choir
8:30 minutes
mixed choir
Divertimento
1955 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
13 minutes
2 vl, vla
Homo natus
1957 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
4 minutes
Mezzo-soprano + org
3 stykker for brass band
1981 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
11:30 minutes
Brass Band
Vildering Suite
1997 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
6 minutes
Brass Band
Festmusik
1978 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
4 minutes
Brass Band (Eb cnt, 2Bb cnt, 2Bb trp, 1 flic, 3 Eb altcor, 1Bb bar, 2Bb t-trb, b-trb, 1Eb tuba, 1 Bb tuba, perc)
Musik til 5 digte
1957 • Peder Holm
7+ Instruments
11 minutes
Mezzo-soprano solo + 1.1.1.1/0.0.0.0/0.0.1.1.1
To skitser
1966 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
9 minutes
Trumpet, Trombone solo + 2.2.2.2/2.0.0.0/3 perc/archi
Gobelin
1986 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
6:15 minutes
fl dol (or flute), gui
Siun
1986 • Peder Holm
Solo
6:15 minutes
Guitar solo
Khebeb
1968 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
13 minutes
2 Pianos solo + 2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timp/perc/archi
Fantasi
1954 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
Viola and Piano
Fantasi
1954 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
10 minutes
Viola solo + 2.1.2.2/3.1.2.1/timp/perc/arpa/archi
Fantasi
1954 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
10 minutes
Cello solo + 2.1.2.2/3.1.2.1/timp/perc/arpa/archi
Fantasi
1954 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
Cello and Piano
Nocturne
1979 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
8 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timp/archi
Ørken og hede
1997 • Peder Holm
Choir
5 minutes
5 part mixed choir
Og du, mit barn
1998 • Peder Holm
Choir
6:20 minutes
8 part mixed choir
To billeder
1992 • Peder Holm
Choir
11:20 minutes
5 part mixed choir
Ode til Aaret
1988 • Peder Holm
Choir
14 minutes
mixed choir
Symfonisk dans
1957 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
4 minutes
2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timp/2 perc/archi
Preludio, scherzo e fantasia
1956 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
17 minutes
3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/2 perc/arpa/archi
Koncert for orkester
1955 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
30 minutes
3.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp/perc/arpa/archi
Quintet
1980 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
cor, 2 trp, trb, tuba
Strygekvartet nr. 5
1967 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
String Quartet
Pezzo concertante
1964 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
7 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0/timp/3 perc/archi
Kvartet
1958 • Peder Holm
2-6 Instruments
pno, vl, vla, vlc
Capriccio
1959 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
4 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.1.2.1/timp/3 perc/arpa/archi
Canon
1984 • Peder Holm
Open Instrumentation
7:22 minutes
1-12 celli
Caccia
1985 • Peder Holm
Solo
8:50 minutes
Piano solo
Phantasy for Violin and Strings
1978 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
16 minutes
Violin solo + String Orchestra
Tre orkesterstykker
1966 • Peder Holm
Orchestra
19 minutes
3.3.T-sax, 4.3/4.3.3.1/timp/3 perc/archi