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Last week, the 2025 Hans Christian Andersen Festival in Odense Denmark presented the Danish premiere of the opera The Thirteenth Child, with music by Poul Ruders to a libretto by Becky and David Starobin. The Thirteenth Child is a free interpretation of the Brothers Grimm's fairytale The Twelve Brothers.

Writing of the Bridge Records recording of The Thirteenth Child, critic Colin Clarke calls it: "an unalloyed success...a threshold to the mysterious realms of the unconscious, even the astral, a place where flowers can transform into ravens in the blink of an eye. It acts as a reminder that true theatricality is alive and well; it reminds us that Ruders’s chameleon ability to move between musical vernaculars, yet to speak always the truth, puts him up there with the finest of living composers. The stunning recording enables us fully to throw ourselves into this magical parallel world.

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Leading British critic Stephen Johnson called Poul Ruders "The Richard Strauss of the computer-aged orchestra", and indeed the Ruders six symphonies, collected here for the first time, sparkle with vivid color and brilliant orchestral virtuosity.  Ruders is best known for his score to the opera "The Handmaid's Tale", based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian American tale, produced by opera companies throughout Europe and North America. 

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