DANISH MUSIC FOR BRASS
Is a series of recordings with brass players from the Royal Danish Orchestra
as chamber music players or soloists
MOGENS ANDRESEN
MUSIC FOR BRASS
SUITE DANICA for BRASS QUINTET
1 – I saw in the East / 2 – Ebbe Skammelsen
3 – Song of the Day / 4 – the Hag and the Courtier
3 SWEDISH TUNES for TROMBONE QUARTET
1 – Farewell / 2 – And soon it will be Blossomtime / 2 – Walking tune from Äppelbo
CHACONNE for ALTO TROMBONE and BRASS BAND
Ketil Christensen, Bjarne nielsen, Søren Emtoft – trumpet / Henning Hansen – horn
Thorbjörn Kroon, Keld Jørgensen, Lars Haugaard – tenor trombone
Mogens Andresen – bass trombone / Ole Pedersen – percussion
Hjørring brass Band, conductor – Herbert Møller
Executive producer – Ole Høglund
https://orcd.co/brass03
THE ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRA
The Royal Danish Orchestra’s emblem, the Royal Trumpeter Corps. Engraving from 1583. The Royal Danish Orchestra is the the world’s oldest orchestral institution. It started out 1448 as a trumpeter corps, and today it is an opera and symphony orchestra based at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen.
MOGENS ANDRESEN
After working with the Falster Infantry Regimental Band in Vordingborg and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, in 1974 Mogens Andresen became a bass trombonist in the Royal Danish Orchestra. In 1988-2013 Mogens Andresen was appointed professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and head off brass. Mogens Andresen was a co-founder of a brass ensemble from The Royal Danish Orchestra, cofounder of DANIA BRASS and plays Baroque trombone in THE DANISH VIOLONBANDE. With these ensembles he has made many recordings and has toured in Europe and USA. The recipient of the “Neil Humfield award in 2016 for Excellence in Trombone Teaching” from “International Trombone Association”. Writer of the book ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRA The World’s Oldest Orchestral Institution.
Composer and arranger of music for brass published on BRASSMUSICONLINE.DK. His compositions and arrangements are performed worldwide, among others: The Brass Ensemble of the Concertgebow Orchestra, German Brass, Brass Enslemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, The Danish trombone Quartet, the Danish Brass Quintet and brass ensembles of all the Danish Symphony Orchestras and military Bands.
SUITE DANICA for BRASS QUINTET
– is based on 4 old Danish folk tunes and was written for the debut concert of The Royal Danish Orchestra Brass Quintet in 1977
3 SWEDISH TUNES for TROMBONE QUARTET
– is based on 3 old Swedish tunes and was written 1983 for the trombone section in The Malmö Symphony Orchestra Trombone Section for a performance at the International Trombone Festilval in Nashville, USA.