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POUL RUDERS (b. 1949) SOUND AND SIMPLICITY (Seven Pillars of Music for Accordion and Symphony Orchestra) (2018) (29:22) 1) I. Rain (3:39) 2) II. Trance (3:58) 3) III. Haiku (:22) 4) IV. Smoke (6:55) 5) V. Song Link (6:06) 6) VI. Twilight (4:06) 7) VII. Wolf Moon (4:16) Bjarke Mogensen, accordion Odense Symfoniorkester Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor 2 8) DREAM CATCHER (2004) (arr. Bjarke Mogensen) (4:30) Bjarke Mogensen, accordion SYMPHONY NO. 3 “Dream Catcher” (2005-2006, rev. 2009) (26:31) 9) I. Alla breve con brio - Adagio sognante (15:32) 10) II. Scherzo prestissimo (10:59) Odense Symfoniorkester Scott Yoo, conductor p c and 2021, Bridge Records, Inc. • All Rights Reserved • Total Time: 60:43 3 SOUND AND SIMPLICITY (SEVEN PILLARS OF MUSIC FOR ACCORDION AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA) (2018) Note by the composer All music is sound, but not all music is simple. Simplicity is a virtue, espe- cially in the arts, a fact which becomes increasingly and inescapably obvi- ous to me the older I get. In Sound and Simplicity four out of the seven movements are very simple (as in the absence of any structural and metric complexity). Indeed, the second movement, Trance, a sustained chord, em- ploys only four notes, but they are gradually presented over three octaves. Two of the seven titles are related to literary texts. Rain is a musical re- flection on a couple of lines by Danish writer Arthur Krasilnikoff, from his novel The Eye of the Whale (the chapter entitled Rain) – here in my translation from the Danish: “But best of all were the sounds from the drops.
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