The acclaimed Nordic String Quartet here presents the first complete recording of Dalberg's quartets – as a conversation with great statements and good arguments.
From the rhapsodic to the cryptic and from the joyous to the cautionary, they present a picture of one of Europe’s brightest young composers in the full flow of inspiration
Per Nørgård seems to act as a live satellite dish for the world’s signals: one suddenly hears the trees sing like aeolian harps and the waves strike the shore like strains of music – here in four chamber works by Nørgård played by Ensemble MidtVest
Fini Henriques had a special gift for beautiful, well-shaped melodies – with a generous output of single pieces, usually strung together in collections such as those presented here by Christina Bjørkøe
Duo Åstrand/Salo follow-up their first installment of sonatas by Friedrich Kuhlau with a selection of some of the composer’s most convincing works for violin and piano
