A Hand for Holmboe

Katrine Ring

The Danish DJ, composer and producer Katrine Ring (b. 1960) is one of the few DJs at the international level who has specialized in classical music. On this album she remixes and deconstructs a number of chamber concertos by the composer Vagn Holmboe (1909-96) in a musical game of hide-and-seek that breathes new life into the works in a constant play of memory and recognition. The original recordings by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and the conductor Hannu Koivula are included as a bonus CD.

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The Masterworks Vol. 2 - Chamber and Instrumental Works

Carl Nielsen

This is the first complete collection of Carl Nielsen's masterly chamber works available on CD. Music in which the Danish national composer, with his spontaneous and imaginative works, presents himself as a renewer of the classical tradition. Here all the string quartets, violin sonatas and wind works appear in new, definitive recordings by top young Danish musicians. The piano works are played in unique fashion by Herman D. Koppel, who as a young man was priviliged to play them all to the composer himself.

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String Quartets Vol. 1

Rued Langgaard

The string quartets of Danish music's eccentric outsider Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) are passionate works of the composer's youth, representing both his nostalgically romantic side and his profoundly visionary modernity. For the first time on CD, this recording series presents all 8 quartets in the award-winning young Nightingale String Quartet's distinctly dramatic interpretation based on the revised Rued Langgaard Edition.

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Accordion Concertos

Per Nørgård, Ole Schmidt, Anders Koppel, Martin Lohse

Danish Bjarke Mogensen (b. 1985) is the new star of the accordion in a country where there are already fine accordion traditions. On this CD Bjarke is accompanied by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rolf Gupta in new Danish accordion concertos by Per Nørgård, Ole Schmidt, Anders Koppel and Martin Lohse - the last two written specifically for the young soloist.

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Requiem

Bent Sørensen, Johannes Ockeghem

Here is another outstanding recording project initiated by GRAMMY-winning conductor Paul Hillier and interpreted by  Ars Nova Copenhagen.The 500 years that separate Renaissance master Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410-97) and contemporary Danish composer Bent Sørensen (b. 1958) seem to disappear in this extraordinary Requiem which is a totality integrated both dramatically and musically; a work that unites the stylistic contrasts in a mode of expression that seems at once timeless and entirely present.

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Tavole per Orfeo

Ib Nørholm

Drama, surprise, humour and still life - with a bubbling undertone of anarchy. Composer Ib Nørholm (b. 1931) presents us with a delightful twist on Danish nocturne and condensed music drama for two in Tavole per Orfeo. The world premiere recordings of Still Life and new arrangements of Flowers from the flora of Danish poetry interpreted by soprano Else Torp and Per Pålsson unfolds as a fascinating testimony to an inspired encounter between words and music - and a meeting of strong artistic personalities.

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