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Danish National Concert Choir

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    Agnete Schlichtkrull

    The Danish National Concert Choir has won great international recognition within more or less all genres and epochs of classical music. The Choir performs regularly with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, in concert with other Danish and international orchestras and ensembles and often also a cappella. Both the classical standard repertoire and new music are particularly important to the Danish National Concert Choir. Per Nørgård’s Symphony No. 3 was composed for this choir, which has performed and recorded numerous works by modern masters such as Henze, Ligeti and Berio. Since 2016 the Belgian conductor Bart Van Reyn has been the Danish National Concert Choir’s chorus master.

    • 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

    • Søren Nils Eichberg

      Symphony No. 3 · Morpheus

      The culmination of composer Søren Nils Eichberg's residency with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    • Niels W. Gade

      Comala

      The Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Choir rediscover Niels W. Gade's forgotten breakthrough work

    • Paul von Klenau

      Symphony No. 9

      The magnificent symphony that was found in a plastic bag in Vienna after 50 years

    • Carl Nielsen

      Maskarade

      Michael Schønwandt conducts a sparkling cast of today’s finest Nielsen singers and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    • John Frandsen

      Requiem

      A moving sacred work for the present: John Frandsen’s magnificent Requiem embraces all expressions in a prayer for humanity

    • Peter Heise

      Songs for Male Voices

      Charming choral songs and quartets from the Danish Golden age. Long live woman, art and the fatherland!

    • Asger Hamerik

      The Symphonies

      Denmark’s most international 19th-century composer steps out in all his romantic orchestral glory

    • Rued Langgaard

      The Symphonies

      All Langgaard’s 16 symphonies collected in one beautiful box; a watershed release!

    • Per Nørgård

      Symphonies 3 and 7

      Sensational recording of Nørgård’s 7th Symphony and his epoch-making Symphony no. 3

    • Rued Langgaard

      Symphonies Nos. 12-14

      Three symphonies that cover the whole field of Langgaard’s corrosive, schizophrenic view of music

    • Rued Langgaard

      Antichrist

      The SACD production of Rued Langgaard's magnificent doomsday vision. allegorical opera

    • Bent Sørensen, Per Nørgård

      The Little Mermaid; The Will-o'-the-Wisps Go to Town

      Two new Danish masterworks inspired by Hans Christian Andersen

    • Alexander Zemlinsky, August Enna

      The Little Match Girl; Die Seejungfrau

      Zemlinsky meets Danish opera in a double tribute to Hans Christian Andersen

    • Asger Hamerik

      Choral-Symphony; Requiem

      A full-blown romantic masterpiece by Berlioz’ favourite Danish pupil

    • Rued Langgaard

      Antikrist (DVD)

      Langgaard’s ecstatic vision of doom in prizewinning recording. Indescribable!

    • Vagn Holmboe

      Requiem for Nietzsche

      An impressive, uncompromising oratorio based on the life of Nietzsche – a major work in Danish music

    • Niels Rosing-Schow

      Archipel des solitudes

      Overwhelming beauty in this French-inspired song cycle to texts by Gilles Gourdon

    • Friedrich Kuhlau, Niels W. Gade, J.P.E. Hartmann, P.E. Lange-Müller, H.E. Krøyer, Jacob Gade, J. Mikel

      Der er et yndigt land

      Danmark i lommeformat – de største klassiske hits og skønneste melodier

    • Ludolf Nielsen

      The Tower of Babel

      A visionary large-scale work by the Symbolist composer in a world premiere recording

    • P.E. Lange-Müller

      Renaissance

      Danish Romantic music by a beloved master

    • J.P.E. Hartmann

      Liden Kirsten

      The beloved ballad opera with a libretto by Hans Christian Andersen. Denmark in a nutshell!

    • Friedrich Kuhlau

      Elverhøj

      Kuhlau’s beloved work, which has been performed countless times since 1928

    • Herman D. Koppel

      Moses

      Considered one of the principal works of the post-war period

    • Per Nørgård

      Luna · Symphony No. 3 · Twilight

      Three of Nørgård’s most important orchestral works from the late 1960s and 1970s

    • Bent Sørensen

      Sterbende Gärten

      The winner of the Nordic Music Counsil Prize 1996

    • F.L.Ae. Kunzen

      Holger Danske

      The first masterpiece of Danish opera – a rescue opera, a fairy tale and a Turkish opera all at once

    • Per Nørgård

      Siddharta

      One of the most remarkable works of recent Danish music, which aroused international attention when it was premiered in 1983

    • Svend Erik Tarp

      Orchestral Works

      Danish Neoclassicism of the finest kind – and with plenty of humour

    • Friedrich Kuhlau

      The music for the play Elves' Hill

      Already at the first performance, the work sparked spontaneous cheer, and no other performance has seen so many performances at the Royal Danish Theatre

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