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Esbjerg Ensemble

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    Henrik Stenberg

    Esbjerg Ensemble was founded in 1967 as the first professional chamber ensemble in Denmark, instigated by local forces and the Ministry of Culture. Esbjerg Ensemble has since kept the flag flying as a role model for similar ensembles in Denmark and abroad. The ensemble plays the complete canon of classical music, is recognized for its innovative and versatile programs, and is especially known for its reliable interpretation of contemporary works. Since the beginning, the ensemble has had a close cooperation with composers of our time, and pivotal figures like Karl-Aage Rasmussen, Hans Abrahamsen and Peter Bruun have been artistic directors over the years – a relationship that continues to develop through the annual workshop for young composers, initiated by Frederik Gislinge in 1980. For Dacapo Records, Esbjerg Ensemble has released several CDs with music by, among others, Per Nørgård, Peter Bruun and Bent Sørensen.

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    • Matias Vestergård

      Idylls, elegies

      Vestergård is a rarity on Denmark’s new music scene — this album features 'his younger self trying to deal with the serious classical music heritage that he love'

    • Rued Langgaard

      Music of the Abyss

      Rued Langgaard’s music written between 1913 and 1924 are undercut by a dark musical understream with Music of the Abyss as climax.

    • Steingrímur Rohloff

      Medea/Lysistrata

      Beautiful, sonorous settings of the myths of Medea and Lysistrata

    • Bent Sørensen

      Pantomime · Rosenbad

      Bent Sørensen's beautiful piano trilogy completed by Katrine Gislinge, Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet

    • Per Nørgård

      Sceneries for percussion and ensemble

      Four magical, virtuosic percussion works inspired by the forms of nature and eastern mysticism.

    • Peter Bruun

      Letters to the Ocean

      Prize-winning composer Peter Bruun reveals his passionate relationship with the sea in this collection of inspired chamber works

    • Morten Olsen

      In a Silent Way

      24 gongs and Miles Davis haunt the all-round artist Morten Olsen’s new works

    • Anders Brødsgaard

      In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

      A cycle of piano works where improvisational imagination and systematic rigour meet

    • Per Nørgård

      Works for Harp and ensemble

      Magisk musik, der løfter harpen til spirituelle højder

    • Karl Aage Rasmussen

      Three Friends – Sinfonietta Works

      The Violin Concerto and other major works by a central figure from the Nordic music of our time

    • Bent Sørensen

      Shadowland

      Five unique works where all the shades of twilight appear