Symphony No.3 - Per Nørgård

Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Radio Choir & Vocal Ensemble conducted by Thomas Dausgaard I - Moderato: 0:00 II - Allegretto - Adagio poco rubato - A tempo - Sereno - Giubiloso: 16:43 Per Nørgård composed his Third Symphony between 1972 and 1975, and it received its first performance in 1976. It immediately attracted great attention, and has been performed many times since. The work is asummary of the new world of musical experience that the composer had begun to explore from the end of the 1960s. The score was commissioned by Radio Denmark, which permitted him, during composition, to try out his orchestral effects using its house ensemble. Whereas his first period of composition, in the 1950s, was a personal interpretation of the Nordic music tradition (as clearly shown in the Second Piano Sonata and “Konstellationer“ for twelve solo strings or string groups) and whereas he worked in the 1960s with serial and collage techniques and a new aural orientatio