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Today is the worldwide release of the SACD "Quatour pour la fin du Temps" by Olivier Messiaen with Christina Åstrand, violin, Johnny Teyssier, clarinet, Henrik Dam Thomsen, cello, and Per Salo, piano. Producer Preben Iwan. In the booklet you can read an essay by author Jens Christian Grøndahl on the piece. You can listen all all major digtital platforms,- or buy the SACD via OUR Recordings worldwide distributor NAXOS.

Today was the official release of the amazing harpsichord concerto by Poul Ruders. Yyou can listen all all major streaming platforms to this Digital EP. Harpsichord star Mahan Esfahani is solist, and the orchestra is Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam. Producer Preben Iwan.

Classical album of the week in London Newspaper Times: Mahan Esfahani, the dynamic harpsichord star.
- think you know the harpsichord? Think again

Monday the 11th we had to cancel the scheduled recording with Norwegian folk singer Birgitte Grimstad due to sicknes. Fortunatelly we can now make the recording on Monday the 18th. Michala Petri and Lars Hannibal will make the accompagnement for 4 old songs from the 60th and 70th, all 4 songs against war.
Producer will be Mette Duo,- and Julie Sunflower will make a video dokumentation.

Today Michala Petri recorded "Lament" for solo recorder by Ukrainian composer G. Grigorjeva. We recorded in Nr. Herlev Church with producer Mette Due. The release will be shortly on Digital EP

I am very proud that OUR Recordings, as their 50th release, can announce that it will be Olivier Messiaen´s master piece "Quatour pour le fin du temps". The recording is in all aspects exceptional. The 4 solo players from Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Christina Åstrand, Johnny Teyssier, Henrik Dam Thomsen and Per Salo, has played this piece many times in concerts, and in a concept where an essay in 8 parts by the Danish writer Jens Christian Grøndahl, was read by the Danish actress Solbjørg Højfeldt. The essays is in 2 languages (English and French) and is printed in the booklet, so listeners can have the possibility to read about the single movements. On the SACD there is only the music. All four players are also each of them highly recognized soloist,- and on the sales sheet there is a link from a lovely live performance at the Danish Radio Concert Hall. Producer is Preben Iwan

Mahan Esfahani recorded Danish composer Poul Ruders harpsichord concert0 with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam i Symphonic Hall i Århus September in September 2020. Producer is Preben Iwan. On OUR Reccordings website you can read more about this digital EP,- and on our YouTube channel you can watch videos where the composer and Mahan taks abiut the recording and the concerto.

https://www.ourrecordings.com/so/53NzKmYKi?languageTag=en

Today is the international release of the album LUX AETERNA with Danish National Vocal Ensemble conducted by Marcus Creed. The repertoire is all Hungarian with musc by Kodaly and Ligeti. Also today OUR Recordings March Newsletter is send out. In the Newsletter you can read an update on releases,- and also my comments to the insane war in Ukraine.

LUX AETERNA with music by Kodaly and Ligeti is uploaded now,- and will be released in March 2022. It is the 3rd album in the ungoing project where Danish National Vocal Ensemble conducted by their cheif conductor Marcus Creed record major works from the 20th century.

It was a great pleasure to play in the wonderful Les Musicales de Baabdath, "Strings of Hope" Festival in Beirut, Lebanon. The concert took place in Saint Elias Church,- and was a cooporation between the Festival and The Danish Embassy in Beirut. On the 19th both Michala and I gave master class at the Conservatory in Beirut.