Fête galante

Poul Schierbeck

Dalliance, deceit and dastardly blackmail are all in the air at the rococo palace of Versailles, where the Danish composer Poul Schierbeck's only opera Fete galante from 1930 unfolds its coulorful plot. Schierbeck's opera maintains an exquisite musical balance between the lyrical and the comic, and this recording brings new life to Schierbeck's tuneful music with a strong Nordic singers' cast in front of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Schønwandt.

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EXPO - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Al largo

Magnus Lindberg

his CD presents the world premiere recordings of three works by Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) written for and premiered by the New York Philharmonic under Music Director Alan Gilbert. The opening work, EXPO, was the overture in Gilbert’s very first concert as the Philharmonic’s new Music Director and Lindberg’s first season as their composer-in-residence in 2009!

"Mr. Lindberg writes brilliantly for orchestra, and Mr. Gilbert and the Philharmonic made the most of it in this glittering, virtuosic performance." New York Times, concert review 2010

"Percussive force and boundless energy." Financial Times, concert review 2012

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Carion plays Koppel - Wind Quintets

Herman D. Koppel, Anders Koppel, Benjamin Koppel

Herman, Anders and Benjamin Koppel - three Danish composers, three generations (father, son and grandson) and three different kinds of contemporary wind quintet -recorded by the playful and experimental group Carion, who truly demonstrate their artistic scope on this debut album.

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The Symphonic Edition Vol. 2

Knudåge Riisager

“You never know where you have Riisager: he is the man of surprises and caprices,” wrote a Danish newspaper after the first performance of Knudåge Riisager's Symphony No. 3 in 1932. Indeed, this album presents a collection of highly original and imaginative orchestral works by Riisager from the 1920s and 30s, including the euphoric Futurist tribute to the new aeroplanes T-DOXC - all in world premiere recordings by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and conductor Bo Holten.

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La Notte

Bent Sørensen

The composer Bent Sørensen (b. 1955) writes music that is at once quiet and insistent, half in shadow and full of purling motion, like memories from a faraway faded past. The three works with the piano in focus, released here for the first time on CD, have been recorded by the English pianist Rolf Hind in collaboration with his regular duo partner, the violinist David Alberman, and accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michael Schønwandt.

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String Quartets

C.F.E. Horneman & Asger Hamerik

The music of the two composer cousins C.F.E. Horneman and Asger Hamerik was never properly appreciated in their native Denmark during their lifetimes. Hamerik made his career abroad, while Horneman fell foul of everyone in the Copenhagen musical establishment. Now the Arild String Quartet sheds new light on the forgotten string quartets of the two composers with this debut CD for Dacapo Records.

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Concertos

Vagn Holmboe

Vagn Holmboe’s solo concertos for violin and viola are works that combine the composer’s own purist Nordic style with a huge declaration of love for the wild, dancing eastern European folk music that captivated him throughout his life. These premiere recordings by some of Scandi navia’s strongest string soloists – Norwegian Lars Anders Tomter and Swedish Erik Heide fronting the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk.

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