Works for violin and piano

"Dacapo has released two handsome-looking discs devoted to the music of Fini Henriques ... As an executant-composer he was perfectly placed to write small violin pieces ... The programme isn't chronological. Indeed, we plunge straight into his 1919 Romance, a Danish Salut d'amour if ever there was one ... And there is his most famous piece, the Wiegenlied of 1915, a lovely little lullaby that he recorded. Listening to Johannes Søe Hansen's fine performance one can't help but recall the composer's own virtues as a purveyor of expressive portamenti and, with his slower vibrato, a fine variety of colour ... No, Henriques's little pieces aren't going to set the world on fire but their modest aims and unpretentious warmth, allied to an engaging sense of character, should provide nearly 80 minutes of fun and sentiment".

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"Of the two piano solo discs, Bjørkøe's has the edge in repertoire, featuring two of Henriques's finest collections, Billedbogen and Melodiske profiler ... Where Henriques's expressive range shows its limitations is in his various attempts to portray or illustrate eroticiscm; each disc has an example of this and the restults are genteel, even twee, with nothing, say, of Scriabin's more ecstatic visions ... With no repertoire clashes, both discs are recommendable, as is the violin disc - Henriques was a viola player and violinist ... - on which Johannes Søe Hansen is right inside the idiom, very nicely accompanied by Bjørkøe. Each disc is a joy".