Erik Kaltoft

piano

1943

Pianist Erik Kaltoft studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus and with Yvonne Lefébure in France. A versatile musician, he has performed widely as a soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist, touring internationally with ensembles like the Elsinore Players and LINensemble. Kaltoft has been a prominent figure in Aarhus's musical scene through his long-standing collaborations with the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Opera, and Aarhus Summer Opera. He has also served as the artistic director of Århus Sinfonietta. His passion for contemporary music is evident in his involvement in the premières of over 200, mainly Danish, works. Kaltoft has also been a professor at the Danish National Academy of Music in Odense.

Jørgen Plaetner

Selected Works

Visionary electronic music from the 1960s and 1970s by the pioneer Jørgen Plaetner.
Tage Nielsen

Piano and Chamber Works

This album presents music from all five decades of Tage Nielsen’s career – altogether highly varied music that curiously breaks with the currents of its time yet remains condensed, precise and clear in thought and expression.
Per Nørgård

Singing Secrets

Singing Secrets is a thoughtful and profoundly lyrical album illustrating some of the distinctive steps of Per Nørgård’s musical journey.
Gunnar Berg

Chamber Music Works with Piano

Uncompromising music from the 1950s and 1960s by one of Denmark’s most acute, international modernists.
Per Nørgård

Piano Works

Animals, friends and The Beatles appear on this collection of Nørgård’s imaginative piano music
Gunnar Berg

Éclatements

Berg’s large, uncompromising twelve-tone cycle, 33 years in the making
Bent Lorentzen

Concertos

Unconventional, playful music for among other instruments horn and shotgun!
Jens Schou, Per Nørgård, Ib Nørholm, Niels Viggo Bentzon

Breath and Wings

Improvisation music and new works for clarinet
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen

Tonkraftwerk

Agerfeldt’s power plant makes weird, amusing and subtle music
Bent Lorentzen

Piano Works

Music from three decades by Denmark’s whimsical music-maker
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Chamber Music

The provocative Plateaux pour deux for cello and squeeze-bulb horn – and what followed after
Gunnar Berg

Orchestral and Chamber Music Works

Three works for flute and orchestra by the fervent serialist of the post-war period