The teenage Langgaard celebrating his love of beauty and harmony in the most hedonistic terms with a gigantic alpine symphony. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the first orchestra to stage this masterpiece to great acclaim in 1913.
Bára Gísladóttir
VÍDDIR
VÍDDIR is not a light-hearted leap into a new life. It is a black night of a piece. An abyss, into which Gísladóttir has dived and reached deeply.
Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson is on home turf in five Icelandic works for accordion with biting originality and intense dramas.
Rued Langgaard
Piano Works Vol. 4
In this fourth volume of piano works, Berit Johansen Tange captures the fierce inner life of Langgaard, his charm and incomparable twists in colour
Matias Vestergård
Idylls, elegies
Vestergård is a rarity on Denmark’s new music scene — this album features 'his younger self trying to deal with the serious classical music heritage that he love'
Martin Stauning
Harp Concerto
A harp trapped by an orchestra — the new Harp Concerto by Danish sound magician Martin Stauning is an entrancing yet dramatic piece of music.
Bent Sørensen
The Island in the City
Gripping and immediate and orchestral works born out of Bent Sørensen’s quietly spoken universe
Jens Hesselager
Musik i Danmark – Den korte historie
Hvad har en nation som Danmark med musikhistorien at gøre? Og hvad har historien om musik i Danmark med nutidige virkeligheder at gøre?
Josefine Opsahl
Atrium
A strikingly original statement exploring the duality of Opsahl's music through a precisely defined box of digital loops, bodies and buildings, human and machine.
Per Nørgård
8 Symphonies
A fascinating, comprehensive insight into the symphonic thinking of Nørgård, one of the greatest symphonists of our time.
Nikki Martin
Bittersweet
Nikki Martin's 'Bittersweet' for soprano, accordion and marimba is trembling with sensuality and melancholic yearning
Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 2
The highly anticipated sequel to Nightingale String Quartet's praised Vol. 1 – energetic, precise, but also brooding and poetic readings of the Holmboe quartets.
Traditional
Langt ud' i skoven
Dreamers’ Circus and DR Børnekoret's new album with old Danish children's songs in new arrangements
Niels Viggo Bentzon
Wind Quintets
Bentzon's his five known wind quintets – captivating in their own way, stoked by his distinctive, virtuosic language and great ingenuity.
C.F.E. Horneman
Aladdin
Horneman adds new lustre to the old fairy tale about Aladdin, taken from the Arabian One Thousand and One Nights
Kasper Rofelt
Dichotomy
From static elements to irresistible unpredictability. Kasper Rofelt finds new ways in his chamber music.
Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð, Allan Gravgaard Madsen
BEINTA
Egilstrøð and Madsen's alluring symphonic song cycle about the Faroese 18th century femme fatale, Beinta. From light to dark or benevolent to threatening
Friedrich Kuhlau
Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2
The sequel to Bodendorff's highly acclaimed first album featuring Kuhlau's piano music
Ole Schmidt
Brass Concertos
Three momentous concertos by one of the great polymaths of the Nordic musical world, Ole Schmidt.
Tekla Griebel Wandall, Thomas Husted Kirkegaard
Danske Komponister – Tekla Griebel Wandall
Tekla Griebel Wandall var en farverig og bredtfavnende kunstner og en pioner i dansk musik.
Hans Abrahamsen
Schnee
Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee is a gorgeous marvel which encapsulates winter and already a classic of the twenty-first century,
Niels Rosing-Schow
A Talk of Our Time
Rosing-Schow with new material that shows his special characteristics: a calligraphic, aerated clarity and sense of functionalism in which no note, timbre or colour is wasted.
SVIN
ELEGI (LP)
Presented in collaboration with the Århus Sinfonietta, SVIN's music features an adventurous acoustic and textural palette, encompassing a thoughtful and melancholic fervour.
Thorvald Aagaard, Oluf Ring, Povl Christian Balslev
Danske Komponister – Thorvald Aagaard og Oluf Ring
Niels Rønsholdt
Country
In his award-winning concerto for singing solo cellist and chamber orchestra, Rønsholdt finds expressive connections among farflung sources, creating music which reflects and refracts its inspirations in the rich American country tradition
Niels Rønsholdt
Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 1
A gripping contribution to the solo piano repertoire, that offers great insight into Niels Rønsholdt's unique musical thinking.
Ib Glindemann
Concertos
Two brilliant instrumental concertos and an impressive medley of his film music celebrating his distinctive flair for writing happy, undemanding, festive and effective music.
Bent Sørensen
12 Nocturnes
12 Nocturnes is wonderfully atmospheric music with a vibrating magical sound.
Otto Malling, Mikael Garnæs
Danske Komponister – Otto Malling
Dansk musiks førstemand var i sin ungdom en progressiv skikkelse, der var interesseret i nye tendenser fra udlandet, men Otto Mallings senere konservatisme præger hans eftermæle.
Bo Holten, Eva Sommestad Holten
Schlagt sie tot!
Schlagt sie tot! is an opera about radical change, religious fanaticism and human emotion in a society set ablaze by the fire of change.
Rued Langgaard
Music of the Abyss
Rued Langgaard’s music written between 1913 and 1924 are undercut by a dark musical understream with Music of the Abyss as climax.
Jesper Koch
Choirbook
A lyrical suite of seven chapters for mixed choir a cappella. A meditation on nature – complex and yet simple