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The sound of Vagn Holmboe's sinfonias and the work Chairos is dazzlingly intense. The composer paints in long, broad strokes with both profundity and pathos. The clear lines and incisive rhythms show the inspiration the composer received from eastern European and Japanese music, while his distinctive symphonic style has roots as far back as Haydn. In recent years Dacapo's CD recordings of Vagn Holmboe's music have turned the gaze of the international music-loving public on Denmark. The Danish Radio Sinfonietta and its Finnish conductor Hannu Koivula are on firm ground as Holmboe interpreters. Their recordings of Holmboe's chamber concertos have garnered excellent reviews and honours. Holmboe's four sinfonias are released in a special box with room for a bonus CD. For the sinfonias can be heard in two ways: either as four separate works, or as the unified work Chairos, where the fourth sinfonia is divided and forms the framing for the other three.