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January 2020
This is 21st-century music, but easy to listen to, even for listeners who otherwise swear by the older classics
Peter Dürrfeld, Kristeligt Dagblad
There's an intense beauty to his concertos for cello and violin
Rebecca Franks, BBC Music Magazine
This excitement about what is to come, as well as a sparkling relationship between passivity and activity, is incredibly well hit by Allan Gravgaard Madsen
Jeppe Rönnow, SEISMOGRAF
Both composers find their own manner of creating a post-Minimalist dialectic between "same" and "different". Happily recommended for new adventure music seekers
Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
I can recommend this recording to chamber music enthusiasts especially for the Malling work, since little of the music of this apparently worthwhile composer is currently available on recordings
Daniel Morrison, Fanfare
I can’t imagine anyone not liking these works
Jerry Dubin, Fanfare
Vivaldi's "Seasons" bursts into a spring, that sounds like the trees of the forest cracking and stretching their bones and roots to overcome the stiffness of winter.
Gregers Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Gregers DH
The performances are pliant, sympathetic and well recorded.
Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International
The program and its performances should appeal strongly to those who admire musicians’ abilities to speak concisely and affectingly in miniature
Robert Maxham, Fanfare Magazine
Salo shows up like a full-time virtuoso (9/9)
Jed Distler, Classics Today
Trancelike listening music
Gregers Dirckinck-Holmfeld, GregersDH.dk
Als geheel geeft deze uitgave een goed beeld van huidige Deense moderne concertleven
Musicalifeiten
Certament, la riquesa temàtica de Koch intensifica la narració expressiva fins
Carme Miró, Sonograma
The Aarhus Orchestra's play is of high quality - and the cd adds to the 'Etude' music a violin concerto by Riisager, which is so insanely exciting that we can wonder that it is so rarely heard
Gregers Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Gregers DH
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People
Four Dacapo releases short-listed for the P2 Music Award
16 December 2019The P2 Music Award (P2 Prisen) 2020 will be awarded on 8 February 2020. Among those short-listed are four releases from Dacapo with string quartets by Nancy Dalberg and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen respectively, Karl Aage Rasmussen’s Vivaldi recomposition and six new works for solo viola.
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New release
New release collects two concertante works by Allan Gravgaard Madsen and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
04 December 2019On Friday 13 December the album Nachtmusik · For Violin and Orchestra is released. The recording presents two concertante works from one of Denmark’s most iconic composers, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, and one of its freshest new voices, Allan Gravgaard Madsen.
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People
Allan Gravgaard Madsen receives award from the Danish Arts Foundation for his ‘Nachtmusik’
27 November 2019The Scholarship Committee of the Danish Arts Foundation has decided to give an award to Allan Gravgaard Madsen’s double concerto Nachtmusik. The work is to be released on Dacapo on 13 December, recorded by Danish National Symphony Orchestra, with Per Salo and Christina Åstrand as soloists.
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Live
The release of Emil Hartmann's chamber music to be celebrated with free concert
11 November 2019The Danish violinist Elisabeth Zeuthen Schneider has for a number of years worked on editing, performing and recording the chamber music of the Danish composer Emil Hartmann. On Friday 15 November, the recordings of the works are finally released on an album, which aims at bringing the slightly overlooked composer out of the shadows.
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New release
New release collects Rued Langgaard's complete string quartets
06 November 2019Next week, Rued Langgaard's complete string quartets are released as a box set, consisting of the three highly acclaimed recordings by the Danish Nightingale String Quartet.
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New release
Jesper Koch creates dream worlds on new album
04 November 2019Jesper Koch's compositions are dealing with longing, nostalgia and dreams. This Friday, three of his concertos are released on the album Dreamscapes, recorded by Odense Symphony Orchestra.
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Campaign
25% disount on all releases from Dacapo this week
28 October 2019On the occasion of the Spil Dansk Ugen (Play Danish Week) we offer a 25% discount on all purchases in Dacapo's webshop throughout this week. Use the code spildansk when you checkout in the webshop.
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Live
'The Four Seasons After Vivaldi' to be celebrated at release concert with Concerto Copenhagen
28 October 2019Concerto Copenhagen is celebrating the recording of Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen's The Four Seasons After Vivaldi with a release concert in The Black Diamond (The Royal Library) on Friday 1 November.
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People
Prize-giving ceremony in London: Langgaard recording won Gramophone Award
17 October 2019Vienna Philharmonic's recording of Rued Langgaard’s Symphonies 2 and 6 was one of the winners at the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Awards yesterday, gaining this year’s Orchestral Award.
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People
‘Morning Song from The Elf King's Daughter’ chosen as P2 listeners’ favourite choral work
07 October 2019Listeners to P2 have awarded Niels W. Gade’s Morgensang af Elverskud (Morning Song from The Elf King's Daughter) first place in the category P2's Classical Top 50 – Choir, a list of the 50 best and most-loved choral works, according to Danes.