Rued Langgaard had one of the most remarkable careers - and was perhaps the greatest musical talent - in all of Danish music. Langgaard was brought up by his artistic parents to hold arch-Romantic, religio-philosophical views on art. Yet Langgaard was not deaf to the modern development of music, and took his Late Romantic tonal idiom to such highly original extremes that it could no longer maintain its Romantic grounding. This led to the first of the two long pauses in composition in his life, and to a subsequent output of works that were deliberately anachronistic. The Danish musical world looked askance at Rued Langgaard, a lonely eccentric who was the only Dane to go all the way with Late Romanticism. In 1940 he was engaged for the first time in an official capacity, as the cathedral organist in Ribe, far from the music life of the capital. And there he lived, a bitter man, until his death, regarding Carl Nielsen as the epitome of all that was wrong with the music of the age. Nevertheless, one finds traces of Nielsen in the most modernist works of Langgaard. Langgaard wrote over 400 works: sixteen symphonies and many other orchestral works, six string quartets, piano and organ works, choral music, songs and the religious vocal drama Antichrist. It was only at the end of the sixties that eyes were opened to the quite special qualities of his often unique musical idiom. And there are still great works by Langgaard awaiting their first performance.www.langgaard.dk
03 May 2010 Sequenza 21
04 March 2010 American Record Guide
01 March 2010 Fanfare
24 February 2010 Musicweb International
04 November 2009 Audiophile Audition
02 November 2009 Opus
15 August 2009 Audiophile Audition
01 July 2009 Gramophone
29 June 2009 Audiophile Audition
16 January 2009 Classics Today
SACD 6.220535 (2010)
Rued Langgaard’s most visionary works form the impressive conclusion to Dacapo’s acclaimed Dausgaard-Langgaard cycle
BD 2.110409BD (2010)
Blu-ray version of the acclaimed DVD production of Rued Langgaard's doomsday opera
SACD 6.220562 (2009)
Languishingly beautiful music played with soul and brilliance by Christina Åstrand
SACD 6.220561 (2009)
New SACD version of Langgaard’s alluring, mysterious a cappella works
SACD 6.220528-29 (2009)
Spectacular recording from Copenhagen Cathedral of one of the greatest Late Romantic organ works
SACD 6.200001 (2009)
All Langgaard’s 16 symphonies collected in one beautiful box; a watershed release!
SACD 6.220519 (2008)
The last two symphonies and a handful of short pieces by the Romantic firebrand Langgaard
SACD 6.220525 (2008)
The amazing breakthrough work by the child prodigy Langgaard is still Denmark’s biggest symphony
SACD 6.220516 (2007)
Two of Langgaard’s most colourful, optimistic symphonies
SACD 6.220517 (2006)
Three symphonies that cover the whole field of Langgaard’s corrosive, schizophrenic view of music
SACD 6.220523-24 (2006)
DVD 2.110402 (2005)
Langgaard’s ecstatic vision of doom in prizewinning recording. Indescribable!
CD 8.226025 (2005)
One of the most beautiful ways of encountering Langgaard’s special universe
CD 8.226006 (2003)
Extremely original music from the last years of the great loner Langgaard
CD 8.224215 (2002)
¨The first recording ever of the two very different versions of the Fifth Symphony, as well as the masterpiece Leaf Fall
CD 8.224153 (2002)
The first two sonatas show the extremes of Langgaard’s incomparable output
CD 8.224182 (2001)
The six-minute Symphony no. 11, Ixion, is intensely minimal music from 1944
CD 8.224180 (2001)
First CD in the definitive series of recordings of Langgaard’s strange and wonderful symphonies
CD 8.224139 (2000)
DCCD 9302A-2B (1999)
CD 8.224136 (1999)
CD 8.224089 (1998)
Late Romantic organ music by Langgaard, Heise and the neglected Camillo Carlsen
CD 8.224011 (1994)
Remarkable Lieder in Late Romantic style by the child prodigy Rued Langgaard
DCCD 9310 (1993)
Lange-Müller’s fully mature Piano Trio and charming works by among others Langgaard and Fini Henriques
DCCD 9114 (1993)
Poetic Lieder from the turn of the last century by among others Ludolf Nielsen and Victor Bendix