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These recordings were made in the period 1975-1987, when the Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen’s ensemble The Elsinore Players was particularly active, with numerous concerts, world premieres, musicodramatic productions and tours to countries all over the world. These are crucial, watershed works in the composer’s oeuvre, several of them with classic status in Danish and international contemporary music. Rasmussen’s works trace links between intense nostalgia and the spirit of play in a sometimes almost circus-like expressive idiom. The composer himself conducts, and has also been responsible for the production of these unique recordings.