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The Strad Recommends: »A neglected Dane is compellingly revived« The Strad
♥♥♥♥♥ »The music seems important throughout« Politiken
Album of the Week – DR P2

Between 1851 and 1857, Peter Heise (1830–1879) wrote six string quartets for the intimate musical soirées of Copenhagen’s refined upper class. Heise was a celebrated and cherished composer in his native Denmark, but his quartets sadly fell into obscurity. In the first instalment of their two-part world-premiere recording series, the Nordic String Quartet revives these elegantly fluid works with a spacious and lyrical approach, infusing a sensibility attuned to Heise’s distinctive poetic touch.