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Svend Nielsen
Works for Sinfonietta
Lyrical and lush orchestral sounds in the works of the Århus composer Svend Nielsen
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Karl Aage Rasmussen, Niels Rosing-Schow, Anders Nordentoft, Erik Højsgaard
Chamber Music
The London ensemble Capricorn plays works commissioned from Danish composers
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Rued Langgaard
Sinfonia interna
World premiere recording of the rediscovered large-scale work from Langgaard’s symbolist period
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Alessandro Orologio, Magnus Thomsen, Michael Prætorius, Bartholomæus Stockmann, Arnoldus de Fine, Valentin Hausmann, John Bull, Jan Tollius, William Brade, Thomas Simpson
Royal Music
Music from the internationally oriented Danish Royal Court around the year 1600
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Den Danske Revy 1930-1940 Vol. 4
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Den Danske Revy 1920-1930 Vol. 4
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Karl Aage Rasmussen
The Ballad of Game and Dream
Karl Aage Rasmussen conducts his own ensemble The Elsinore Players in works from the 1970s and the 1980s
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Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 7
This unsurpassed series concludes with Holmboe’s very last work, completed by his pupil Per Nørgård
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Edouard Dupuy
Ungdom og Galskab (Youth and Folly)
A witty, melodious Singspiel, performed hundreds of times since the premiere in 1806!
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Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Orchestral works
Nordic landscape and Swedish poetry meet Central European modernism in Borup-Jørgensen’s intuitive, inwardlooking mood paintings
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Andy Pape
Leonora Christine
A gripping chamber opera about the princess who is imprisoned by her own father
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Per Nørgård
Symphony No. 3 · Twilight
Nørgård with organic development, shrouded in the mysteries of the twilight
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Hans Abrahamsen
Works for Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta plays four of Abrahamsen’s most exquisite works from the 1980s
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Karsten Fundal
Chamber Music
Works from Karsten Fundal’s breakthrough phase in the 1990s
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Tage Nielsen, Erik Norby, Vagn Holmboe, Herman D. Koppel
Songs
Songs from the post-war era by among others Herman D. Koppel and Vagn Holmboe
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Vagn Holmboe
Sinfonias I-IV
Four intense string works that together form the major work Kairos
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Den Danske Revy 1930-1940 Vol. 6
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Den Danske Revy 1930-1940 Vol. 1
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Indra Rise
The Return
Latvian-born Indra Rise brings her musical roots to Denmark
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Arshak Ikilikian
Superpulse
CD portrait of the Armenian-born all-round artist who settled in Denmark
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Jørgen Jersild
Vocal & Instrumental Works
Jersild’s fine Harp Concerto and other works in the Danish-French vein
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Ivar Frounberg
Orchestral Works
Overwhelming, complex orchestral music where mathematics meets sensuality
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Tage Nielsen, Poul Rovsing Olsen, Ib Nørholm, Per Nørgård, Hans Gefors, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Music for Guitar
The guitarist Erling Møldrup is a unique catalyst for Danish composers of today
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John Frandsen, Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Peter Bruun, Karsten Fundal, Jens Hørsving, Ivar Frounberg
... to arrive where we started ...
New Danish music of the 1990s performed by avant-garde ensemble Figura
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Chamber Music
The provocative Plateaux pour deux for cello and squeeze-bulb horn – and what followed after
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Peter Heise, P.E. Lange-Müller
Songs
Heise and Lange-Müller represent the peak of the Romantic movement in Denmark
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Per Nørgård
Singe die Gärten
Fascinating, seductive music with the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Ars Nova
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Den Danske Revy 1930-1940 Vol. 7
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Den Danske Revy 1940-1945 Vol. 3
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Herman D. Koppel, Sven Erik Werner, Asger Lund Christiansen, Svend S. Schultz, Lars Graugaard
Wind Octets
Three generations of Danish composers in the hands of a prizewinning wind ensemble
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Asger Hamerik
Symphonies 1-2
First recording of Symphonies 1 & 2 by the roving Asger Hamerik, a pupil of Berlioz pursuing a great career in the USA
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Bernhard Lewkovitch
Vocal and Instrumental Works
Double CD offering a retrospective portrait of a unique figure in recent Danish sacred music
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Orchestral Works
Three key works by the caustic, energetic absurdist of modern Danish music
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Music for Voices and Instruments
Razor-sharp vocal works from a 25-year period with texts by among others Samuel Beckett
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Bernhard Lewkovitch
Apollo's Art
Madrigals and motets by an uncompromising master of Nordic music
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Mogens Winkel Holm
Chamber Music
Wind music from 1963-88 by the original Jack-of-all-trades in Danish music
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Friedrich Kuhlau, C.F.E. Horneman
String Quartets
Unsurpassed playing by Copenhagen String Quartet. A classic!
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Poul Ruders
Solar Trilogy
The great big orchestral trip – a unique trilogy in European music
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Den Danske Revy 1940-1945 Vol. 2
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Den Danske Revy 1940-1945 Vol. 4
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Carl Nielsen, Vagn Holmboe, Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen
Wind Quintets
Carl Nielsen’s masterpiece and more recent quintets by Abrahamsen, Holmboe and Nørgård
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Asger Hamerik
Symphonies 5-6
Winner of Danish Release of the Year (2002)! Two magnificent symphonies from the 1890s
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Vocal Music Vol. 1
Emma Kirkby shines as the soloist in Buxtehude’s sacred music
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Erik Norby
Orchestral Works
Four colourful orchestral works by one of the most intensely personal Danish composers of the 1970s
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Karl Aage Rasmussen
Symphony – Antiphony · A Symphony in Time
The prizewinning Symphony-Antiphony by Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Karl Aage Rasmussen’s modern classic Symphony in Time
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Niels Rosing-Schow
Archipel des solitudes
Overwhelming beauty in this French-inspired song cycle to texts by Gilles Gourdon
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Wayne Siegel, Karsten Fundal, Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Pierre Dørge
Clarinet Trios
Four new trios written for the remarkable LINensemble
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Hans Abrahamsen, Poul Ruders
String Quartets
Hans Abrahamsen’s breakthrough work Ten Preludes and other innovative pieces from the 1970s
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Peter Heise, P.E. Lange-Müller
Songs
Heise and Lange-Müller represent the peak of the Romantic movement in Denmark
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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
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Den Danske Revy 1945-50, Vol. 1
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Andy Pape, Ejnar Kanding, Ivar Frounberg, Mogens Winkel Holm, Klaus Ib Jørgensen, Leif Kayser
Works for Classical Accordion
The Norwegian virtuoso Geir Draugsvoll plays works by among others Andy Pape and Ejnar Kanding
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C.E.F. Weyse
Symphonies Nos. 4-5
Vienna Classicism from the 1790s with a Nordic accent
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Vagn Holmboe
Works for A Cappella Choir
Perfect, insightful interpretations of Holmboe’s powerful, robust choral music
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Knudåge Riisager
Orchestral Works
Riisager’s music has the same esprit as his French models, not least in his infectious ballet music from the 1930s
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Herman D. Koppel
Orchestral Works Vol. 1
The first volume in the series presents Koppel’s last symphonies and his Concerto for Orchestra
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Nancy Dalberg
Capriccio
A musical portrait of one of the first Danish female composers
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Niels W. Gade
Complete Piano Works Vol. 1
The character pieces from the 1840s, written in the time before Gade’s international breakthrough
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Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 2
String Quartets 2, 5 and 6, the starting shots for Holmboe’s immersion in the genre
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Per Nørgård
Songs
Per Nørgård himself accompanies on this unique recording of his songs
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Wayne Siegel, Ivar Frounberg, Jørgen Plaetner, Fuzzy
Electro-acoustic Music from DIEM
Four Danish pioneers of electro-acoustic music: Jørgen Plaetner, Wayne Siegel, Ivar Frounberg and Fuzzy
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Den Danske Revy 1945-50, Vol. 2
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Niels Rosing-Schow
Works for Sinfonietta
Modernistic works with delicate, precisely detailed instrumentation
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Niels Viggo Bentzon
Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7
Vital and humorous works by the enfant terrible of Danish postwar music
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Per Nørgård
Works for Cello
Five highly varied fruits of Per Nørgård’s fascination with the cello
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Organ Music
New works demonstrating Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s constant urge to explore
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Hakon Børresen
Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Børresen’s ballet about the astronomer Tycho Brahe is a sparkling Late Romantic star
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Hakon Børresen, Jens Laurson Emborg, Peter Heise, Jacob Fabricius, Louis Glass, Ludolf Nielsen
Cello Miniatures
Stylish, elegant music by Danish composers from around 1900
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Den Danske Revy 1910-1920 Vol. 1
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 3
Grand recordings of String Quartets 7, 8 and 9, composed in the mid-1960s
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Carl Nielsen
Songs
Songs and lieder by the national composer, sung with perfection and empathy
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C.E.F. Weyse
Etudes for Piano
The 12 Etudes by the leading Golden Age composer Weyse show his virtuosic and dramatic sides
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Den Danske Revy 1945-50, Vol. 3
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Anders Nordentoft
On This Planet
The music from Nordentoft’s unique crossover theatre concert
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Poul Ruders
Symphony No. 2
Ruders’ Piano Concerto and his explosive Symphony no. 2 – a tremendous listening experience!
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Leif Thybo
Works for Organ
Neoclassical music from one the greatest Danish names on the organ
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Palle Mikkelborg
A Noone of Night
Spiritual and heavenly beautiful choral music by the famous jazz trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg
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J.P.E. Hartmann
Overtures
Danish High Romanticism when it is best and most itself – not least in the national treasure The Golden Horns
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Sven Erik Werner
Passion Fruits
Four works by the avant-garde-inspired Danish composer who also embraced pluralism and simplicity
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Jan Maegaard
Chamber Music
Labyrinths and canons by the most learned man of the avant-garde, the Schoenberg expert Jan Maegaard
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Den Danske Revy 1910-1920 Vol. 2
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 5
String quartets 13, 14 and 15, composed in an intense mid-1970s period
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Ole Schmidt
String Quartets Vol. 1
Chamber music from 50 years, recorded in the presence of the composer
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Matthias Ronnefeld
I Hear the Drummers Strike the Sky
Concentrated chamber music from the 1980s by the all-too-soon departed Danish-Austrian composer
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Den Danske Revy 1945-50, Vol. 4
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Niels Rosing-Schow
Orchestral & Chamber Works
Sophisticated, succinct chamber works from Niels Rosing-Schow’s breakthrough years in the 1980s
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Ludolf Nielsen
Symphony No. 2
A symphonic tribute to life and love – with the beautiful violin romance as a bonus
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Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Jan Maegaard, Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Vagn Holmboe
Works for Organ
Organ meets harp and percussion in works from the end of the 20th century
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Matthias Ronnefeld
Am Abend tönen die herbstlichen Wälder
Second volume of the complete works of the expressionist who died early
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Bent Lorentzen
Piano Works
Music from three decades by Denmark’s whimsical music-maker
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Louis Glass
Piano Works
Two Late Romantic sonatas and an alluring Fantasia – Louis Glass was a compete master of the piano
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Jørgen Bentzon
Chamber Music
Piano sextets by strong, persistent piano composers of the inter-war years
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Den Danske Revy 1920-1930 Vol. 1
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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C.E.F. Weyse
Symphonies Nos. 1-3
The first full-scale Danish symphonies, inspired by Haydn and Mozart
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Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 1
The start of the prizewinning series, played by four musician with a close links with the composer. A must!
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Herman D. Koppel
Moses
Considered one of the principal works of the post-war period
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Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg, Morten Carlsen, Jørgen Teller, Hans Sydow, Gunner Møller Pedersen, Wayne Siegel
Music for the Iliad
New electro-acoustic music by six composers who follow the whole plot of Homer’s famous work
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Henning Wellejus
Orchestral Works
Tuneful and diverting works that belong to the tradition of humorous and elegant entertainment music
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F.L.Ae. Kunzen
The Hallelujah of Creation
Kunzen’s oratorio and his only symphony are jewels of Danish Vienna Classicism
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Hans Abrahamsen, Poul Ruders, Tage Nielsen, Steen Pade
Works for Piano
Four central piano works by contemporary Danish composers
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Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Concertos Vol. 4
The last four of the fantastic series of Holmboe’s short instrumental concertos
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Bent Sørensen
Shadowland
Five unique works where all the shades of twilight appear
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Vagn Holmboe
Preludes for Sinfonietta Vol. 2
Profound, magical music from Vagn Holmboe’s old age
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Bent Lorentzen
Concertos
Two colourful, welcoming concertos for oboe and trumpet
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Den Danske Revy 1920-1930 Vol. 2
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Carl Nielsen
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
Nielsen’s vital debut and his enigmatic, surreal last work in the genre
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Ole Schmidt
String Quartets Vol. 2
Quartets 3, 5 and 6 and Schmidt’s early Piano Quartet
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Carsten Bo Eriksen, Martin Lohse, Jørgen Messerschmidt, Peter Navarro-Alonso
Nordlys
The prizewinning chamber ensemble Nordlys presents works from the turn of the millennium
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Ole Schmidt
Jeanne d'Arc
Powerful new music for Carl Th. Dreyer’s silent film masterpiece
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Rued Langgaard
Rose Garden Songs
The bulk of Langgaards modest output for mixed choir a cappella is recorded on this release sung by Ars Nova Copenhagen
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Poul Ruders
The Handmaid's Tale
Vor tids stærkeste opera – et genialt og rystende værk
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Anders Nordentoft
Works for Sinfonietta
An exciting meeting between the London Sinfonietta and Nordentoft’s poetic, expressive music
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Herman D. Koppel, Niels Viggo Bentzon
Chamber Music
Piano sixtets by the strong and tenacious interwar composers
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Per Nørgård
Siddharta
One of the most remarkable works of recent Danish music, which aroused international attention when it was premiered in 1983
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Jørgen Bentzon
Racconti
An original inter-war composer who makes music speak and tell a story
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Den Danske Revy 1930-1940 Vol. 2
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Den Danske Revy 1920-1930 Vol. 3
Sangperler fra den danske revy. Med humor, ørehængende melodier og god gammeldags charme
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Sven Erik Werner
Tango Studies
Accordion music with a nod to the tango maestro Astor Piazzolla
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Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 6
Penultimate CD in the definitive series with String Quartets 17, 19 and 20, written in the 1980s
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Carl Nielsen, Niels Viggo Bentzon, Otto Mortensen, Vagn Holmboe, Per Nørgård
Oboe and Piano
Perspectives on Danish 20th century music by Carl Nielsen, Per Nørgård and more
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Ole Buck
Landscapes
Buck’s work presents clarity, refinement and the meticulousness of a watchmaker
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Complete Chamber Music Vol. 3
The third volume of the complete recording of Buxtehude's chamber music, the composer praised by colleagues such as Heinrich Schütz and J.S. Bach
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Ludolf Nielsen
The Tower of Babel
A visionary large-scale work by the Symbolist composer in a world premiere recording