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Christina Bjørkøe

    piano
    1970
    Christina Bjørkøe © Kasper Hafstrøm Bøg

    Christina Bjørkøe is one of Denmark’s leading pianists. A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music in New York and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, she has collaborated with renowned figures such as Krystian Zimerman and Emanuel Ax throughout her career. She also serves as an associate professor at the Danish National Academy of Music.

    With a versatile classical repertoire as her foundation, Christina Bjørkøe maintains an extensive concert career in Denmark and abroad, performing as both a soloist and chamber musician. Her work has taken her to concert halls across Europe, the United States, South America, and China, including notable appearances at the Tivoli Concert Hall, and she has received numerous awards over the years.

    A cornerstone of her work is an extensive discography for Dacapo Records: she won the DR P2 Music Award for her recording of Knudåge Riisager’s piano works, and her catalogue includes works by composers such as Vagn Holmboe, Herman D. Koppel, Niels Viggo Bentzon, and Anders Nordentoft. Her previous recording project for Dacapo Records, Animal Universe (2021), presents twelve sets of animal-themed études commissioned from various Danish composers, a musical menagerie for players of all levels.

    • Per Nørgård

      Rare Piano Works – Selections

      A rare encounter with Per Nørgård's piano world – Christina Bjørkøe's digital prelude to the double album, arriving on CD in 2027.

    • Anders Koppel, Anders Nordentoft, John Frandsen, Peter Bruun, Eva Noer Kondrup, Anders Brødsgaard, Birgitte Alsted, Andy Pape, Karsten Fundal, Amir Mayhar Tafreshipour, Mogens Christensen, Erik Ørum von Spreckelsen

      Animal Universe

      A charming, evocative and very useful musical menagerie of etudes

    • Fini Henriques

      Piano Pieces

      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

    • Fini Henriques

      Works for Violin and Piano

      Henriques at his best: short pieces with a sharp characterisation – works with charm, warm-heartedness and gravity

    • Axel Borup-Jørgensen

      Viola Works

      Intriguing viola works depicting Axel Borup-Jørgensen's fascination with the dark, rich instrument

    • Anders Nordentoft

      Light Imprisoned

      A new, masterful cello concerto and other cello works by Anders Nordentoft, com¬posed especially for the virtuoso Henrik Brendstrup

    • Knudåge Riisager

      Violin Works

      The violin was Riisager’s own instrument, and in the violin works we hear his inimitable, roguish personality as directly as we could wish

    • Poul Rovsing Olsen

      Piano Concerto and Orchestral Works

      Brilliant music from the 1950s by a composer with an unusually international outlook. A real discovery!

    • Vagn Holmboe

      Works for violin and piano

      A most convincing love of music-making is evident in these works by the master Holmboe

    • Herman D. Koppel

      Chamber Music

      Mature, compact works by a master of the art of characterization

    • Hakon Børresen, Louis Glass, Fini Henriques

      Romantic Violin Sonatas

      Two full-blooded sonatas from the turn of the last century by Hakon Børresen and Louis Glass

    • Niels Viggo Bentzon

      Piano Sonatas vol. 2

      Dynamisk og gnistrende værker af efterkrigstidens enfant terrible i dansk musik

    • Knudåge Riisager

      Piano Works

      Highly acclaimed CD of Riisager’s emphatic, witty piano music from the mid-twentieth century

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