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Mixed Company --- 2014

22-page booklet gives performer names, tracklist, artist / ensemble biographies and notes (in English and Danish) by Hillier and Griffiths. For further information outer traycard refers reader to www.dacaporecords.dk, and other details on release form accordingly come from https://www.dacaporecords.dk/en/recordings/gudmundsen-holmgreen-mixed-company. World premiere recording ℗ & © 2014 Dacapo Records Recorded live in The Queen’s Hall, The Black Diamond, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, on 6 October, 2012 Total Time: 67:44 Note on outer traycard: "Mixed Company is the world premiere recording of a remarkable cycle of works by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (b.1932) presented by London Sinfonietta, Theatre of Voices and conductor Paul Hillier. Composed around John Dowland’s iconic Lacrimae, these seven new pieces have all been tailored to the excellent “mixed company” of Danish and English vocal and instrumental performers gathered in Copenhagen to celebrate the Danish composer in 2012." Recorded in the DXD sound format (Digital eXtreme Definition), 352.8 kHz / 32bit. Main array: 3x DPA 4006TL. DAD AX24 converters/preamps, Pyramix DAW system with Tango Controller. Monitored on B&W 802 Diamond speakers. Cover artwork: Denise Burt, elevator-design.dk Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, www.ewh.dk Financial support acknowledged from Augustinus Fonden, Beckett Fonden, Danish Composers’ Society’s Production Pool / KODA’s Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes and SNYK (Sekretariat for Ny Kompositionsmusik = Secretariat for Contemporary Music). Booklet, p.3: Support for Dacapo acknowledged from Danish Arts Foundation Committee (Statens Kunstrad) Bette Thomas acknowledged for making Queen’s Hall available for recording