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Ib Nørholm

The Danish composer Ib Nørholm died yesterday.
24. jan. 1931 - 10. june 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ib_Nørholm

I have to confess I have never heard any of his music.

 

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The English organist and conductor Stephen Cleobury, who spent nearly four decades as Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, died last night aged 70. A full tribute will follow on Monday.

Born in Bromley in 1948, Cleobury was educated at St John's College Cambridge (where he was organ scholar) and held positions at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral before taking up his role at King's in 1982. Over the next 37 years he made a huge number of recordings with the choir, including Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions, Handel's Coronation Anthems and Messiah, the Fauré, Brahms, Mozart and Duruflé Requiems, and several best-selling recordings based on the choir's iconic Nine Lessons and Carols service.

This appears to be Stephen Cleobury's last recording:

 

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AP News says that German tenor and conductor Peter Schreier has died. 84 years old.

 

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Jaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder (31 December 1925 - 1 January 2020) was a Dutch violinist, conductor, and pedagogue.

R.I.P.

I like his Bach:

His Mozart sonatas with Lambert Orkis on Virgin

...and his Beethoven sonatas with Immerseel:

 

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The Danish conductor and pianist Frans Rasmussen has passed away - 76 years old.

This was announced by Frans Rasmussen's label Dacapo on October 2nd.
He recorded a bit of Danish music for Dacapo. (Rued Langgaard, Raasted, Peter A. Heise, Bent Lorentzen and more)
Here is his label's obituary:

https://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/news/conductor-and-pianist-frans-rasmussen-has-died

 

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The New York Times reported earlier this week that Glenn Gould's piano tuner Verne Edquist is Dead at 89.
Obituary here:
https://nyti.ms/33jiIKJ