Listen to 30 selected pieces on Dacapo's anniversary playlist
Listen to 30 selected pieces on Dacapo's anniversary playlist
On the occasion of Dacapo's 30th anniversary a playlist with 30 pieces of music from the great catalogue is now available.
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01 September 2019
In 1989 it was decided to form Dacapo – The Danish national label for classical and new music. Since then, we have released more than 600 CDs, DVDs and LPs, primarily with music by Danish composers. Our catalogue ranges from the earliest Baroque works by composers like Dietrich Buxtehude to the youngest newly written music of today.
To celebrate Dacapo's 30th anniversary we've collected 30 pieces from our catalogue in a playlist available on several streaming platforms. This curated playlist celebrates Dacapo's 30th anniversary with 30 tracks representing the label's unique, wide-ranging and ambitious programme. Listen to the playlist here.
The playlist contains music from a broad selection of Dacapo's releases.
Rued Langgaard, Jacob Gade
Symphonies 2 & 6
With the tradition-conscious Vienna Philharmonic, Langgaard's music 'returns home' to a central European musical culture
Wood Works
Danish Release of the Year 2015: Nordic folk music in groovy and meltingly beautiful original arrangements for string quartet
Asger Hamerik
Choral-Symphony; Requiem
A full-blown romantic masterpiece by Berlioz’ favourite Danish pupil
Per Nørgård
Symphonies 2 & 6
The almost psychedelic Symphony No. 2 set against the playful explorations of Symphony No. 6
Fini Henriques
Works for Violin and Piano
Henriques at his best: short pieces with a sharp characterisation – works with charm, warm-heartedness and gravity
Ludolf Nielsen
The Tower of Babel
A visionary large-scale work by the Symbolist composer in a world premiere recording
Sunleif Rasmussen
Symphony No. 2 ‘The Earth Anew’
A monumental symphony about Yggdrasil, the tree of life
Niels W. Gade
Erlkönigs Tochter & Fünf Gesänge
Erlkönigs Tochter, one of Gade’s greatest successes, is here put together with his breakthrough as an a cappella composer, Fünf Gesänge
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Green Ground
A unique collection of works written for the Kronos Quartet and Theatre of Voices
Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Scheidemann, Christian Geist, Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Adam Reincken, Franz Tunder, Matthias Weckmann, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
IN DULCI JUBILO – Music for the Christmas season by Buxtehude and friends
A stimulating addition to the traditional Christmas repertoire by the Grammy award-winning Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier
Carl Nielsen
The Symphonies & Concertos
The New York Philharmonic’s acclaimed recordings of Nielsen’s complete symphonies and concertos
Nancy Dalberg
Capriccio
A musical portrait of one of the first Danish female composers
Niels W. Gade, P.E. Lange-Müller, Rued Langgaard
Danish Romantic Piano Trios
The debut album of the Danish Piano Trio potraying four great Romantic composers
Ole Buck
Sinfonietta Works
Simple and beauty-seeking sinfonietta works inspired by nature
Anders Koppel
Marimba Concertos
Effervescent, jazzy music for marimba and symphony orchestra, played with trem¬en¬dous talent by 19-year-old Marianna Bednarska
Emil Hartmann
Orchestral Works
Fuldmoden nationalromantik i største målestok
Peter Heise, P.E. Lange-Müller
Songs
Heise and Lange-Müller represent the peak of the Romantic movement in Denmark
Vagn Holmboe
Concertos
“One of the best viola concertos ever penned” (Gramophone) and an equally masterly violin concerto from Holmboe’s last years
Poul Schierbeck
Fête galante
A true operatic feast: Schierbeck’s Fete galante from 1931 is lyrical and warm, glitteringly orchestrated and has Denmark’s best singers in the main roles
Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen
Through the Looking Glass
Superior deployment of artistic freedom from the trio Alpha, who reinterpret modern works by among others Per Nørgård and Bent Sørensen
C.F.E. Horneman
Orchestral Works
Horneman’s most important orchestral works, whose rich colours, moods and infectious temperament are a culmination of the Danish Golden Age.
Else Marie Pade
Aquarellen über das Meer; Illustrations
World premiere of two colourful works by the \grandmother of electronic music\\, Else Marie Pade\
Friedrich Kuhlau, Otto Malling
Piano Quartet No. 3 · Piano Quartet in C minor
Two string quartets by composers cosmopolitan and conservative - Kuhlau with large, dramatic wingspan and Malling with clear, tempting sensuality
Oluf Ring, Aksel Agerby, Egil Harder, Sven Gyldmark, Kim Larsen, Steffen Brandt, Sebastian, Poul Schierbeck, Otto Mortensen, Carl Nielsen
Your Danish Song
12 Danish songs in new, personal interpretations by the Danish National Girls' Choir and three soloists
Carl Nielsen
Orchestral Music
Prizewinning collection of Carl Nielsen’s shorter orchestral pieces – a revelation
Bent Sørensen
Pantomime · Rosenbad
Bent Sørensen's beautiful piano trilogy completed by Katrine Gislinge, Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet
Knudåge Riisager
Orchestral Works
A sparkling SACD re-issue of Riisager's most colourful Neo-Classicist works
Hans Abrahamsen
10 Preludes, Six Pieces, Transcriptions of Satie & Nielsen
New recordings of early works show Abrahamsen’s crystalline magic
Carl Nielsen, Niels W. Gade, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Vagn Holmboe, Line Tjørnhøj
Crossing Borders
Grammy-winning Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier continue to explore Danish vocal music – from Gade to Tjørnhøj
Svend Erik Tarp
Orchestral Works Vol. 1
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra sheds new light on a selection of Svend Erik Tarp's early and unknown orchestral works