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        • Poul Ruders

        • Four Dances in One Movement (1983)
          (4 Dances in One Movement)

        • Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
        • 1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/2perc/pf/str(1.1.1.1.1)
        • 18 min

        Programme Note

        The piece, which was commissioned and premiered by The London sinfonietta, is a multi-emotional display for virtuoso ensemble, and "entertainment" in four contrasting moods: Whispering - Rocking - Ecstatic and Extravagant. The nervous distant trembling of the first dance is later on whipped into extremely direct and muscular proportions in the last, and the mellow tunes introduced by the second dance Rocking form the principal melodic scaffolding of the remainder of the composition, in fierce competition with a horn- and trombone fanfare thrown in immediately at the start of the fast and spiky third dance Ecstatic which employs African Djoboko-rhytms.

        The two horizontal elements sweep along together, virtually melting into one line, and the hammering ‘avanti’ of the coda is suddenly stopped dead by a short, significant general pause. Thereafter the work reforms and disappears into a hushed, ghost-like recapitulation of the second dance.

        - Poul Ruders

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        Discography

        Vildtvoksende Fantasier

        Vildtvoksende Fantasier
        • Label
          Dacapo Records
        • Catalogue Number
          8.224728
        • Released
          1st February 2018

        Four Dances in One Movement

        Four Dances in One Movement
        • Label
          Dacapo
        • Catalogue Number
          8.226028
        • Conductor
          Oliver Knussen
        • Ensemble
          Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
        • Released
          1st April 2010

        Dramaphonia

        Dramaphonia
        • Label
          Bis
        • Catalogue Number
          CD720
        • Conductor
          Søren K. Hansen
        • Ensemble
          Aarhus Sinfonietta
        • Soloist
          Erik Kaltoft, piano
        • Released
          October 1997

        Contemporary Music from Denmark

        Contemporary Music from Denmark
        • Label
          Danish Music Export & Promotion
        • Catalogue Number
          MXP CD 0594
        • Conductor
          Flemming Windekilde
        • Ensemble
          Athelas Ensemble
        • Released
          1994