Perfectly cast vocals, lively and varying choral parts, excellent and clear delivery of lyrics, inspired orchestral treatment (...) results in optimal listening pleasure
Henrik Marcussen, Ascolta
News
September 2022
Nominated for Gramophone Awards 2022, Best Contemporary Recording
Gramophone
Bent Sørensen has become unreasonably good at creating sonorous and surprising music for orchestra
Henrik Friis, Politiken
August 2022
There is a high class scent about this release
Valdemar Lønsted, Dagbladet Information
The alluring, sometimes mind-bending symphonies of Per Nørgård
Richard S. Ginell, San Francisco Classical Voice
Roll over, Mozart
Sune Anderberg, SEISMOGRAF
Opsahl's intriguing music is both technically refined and emotional at the same time
Johanna Paulsson, Dagens Nyheter
[...] wonderful textures that are very evocative in this exciting interpretation by the Trio con Brio and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
Remy Franck, PIZZICATO SUPERSONIC
It's simply a ravishingly unique piece of music that Martin Stauning has put together
Sune Anderberg, SEISMOGRAF
Nightingale tactfully avoids pushing the music into the overdrive that otherwise lies as an unfulfilled potential in the tense composition
Sune Anderberg, Klassisk
CD of the week - From his very first to his latest, Nørgård has showcased his imaginative and varied orchestral working
Kevin Filipski, The Flip Side
Two amazing examples that Bent Sørensen's nostalgic instinct is absolutely modern, equilibristic and so far without expiration date.
Sune Anderberg, SEISMOGRAF
Atrium is an audible sensory experience, a rewarding journey into the Opsahl univers
Julie Hugsted, SEISMOGRAF
Wonderful textures that are very evocative in this exciting interpretation by the Con Brio Trio and the National Danish Symphony Orchestra
Remy Franck, PIZZICATO SUPERSONIC
This second instalment is a joy-lush, romantic playing, but equally clean and spacious
Charlotte Smith, BBC Music Magazine
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New release
Matias Vestergård's emerges onto Denmark’s new music scene as a major new voice
08 August 2022On 26 August, Matias Vestergård's debut album Idylls, elegies with chamber works will be released.
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New release
Confinement and isolation in Martin Stauning's new Harp Concerto
01 August 2022On 19 August the world premiere recording of Martin Staunings new Harp Concerto, composed for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra's solo harpist Zachary Hatcher, will be released.
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New release
Nostalgia and loneliness in the city: New album with orchestral works by Bent Sørensen
11 July 2022On 12 August the album The Island in the City will be released, presenting Bent Sørensen's Second Symphony and the triple concerto L'Isola della Città recorded byTrio con Brio Copenhagen, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
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New release
Cello and electronics, human and machine: New solo album by Josefine Opsahl
27 June 2022On 5 August, Josefine Opsahl's debut for Dacapo Records, Atrium, is released – a solo album with works for cello and electronics composed, performed and recorded by Opsahl herself.
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People
Per Nørgård 90 years: New CD box collects the eight symphonies
20 June 2022On 13 July, one of the greatest symphonist of our time, the Danish composer Per Nørgård turns 90. Dacapo Records marks the day with the release of a CD box, which collects Nørgård's eight symphonies, in award-winning recordings.
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People
Birgitte Alsted turns 80
15 June 2022Composer Birgitte Alsted has a unique voice in Danish music life: organic and surprising at the same time, dramatic and expressive, regardless of whether the sounds are produced by computer or acoustic. On Wednesday 15 June she turns 80.
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New release
Nick Martin curates new playlist with works from the Dacapo catalogue
03 June 2022Nick Martin has just released the digital album Bittersweet. We have asked them to curate a playlist with works from the Dacapo Records catalogue that they admire and feel an affinity with.
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New release
Dreamers' Circus and the Danish National Children’s Choir are celebrating the Danish treasury of children's songs
24 May 2022Langt ud' i skoven is presenting a selection of the best Danish children's songs in new arrangements by the folk music trio Dreamers' Circus. The album will be released on 27 May.
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New release
Dacapo Records enters into cooperation with legendary orchestra for a Danish outsider’s first symphony
20 May 2022In June, Rued Langgaard’s Symphony no. 1 will be performed and recorded by the Berlin Philharmonic and the conductor Sakari Oramo, the setting being a mini-festival in Berlin about the composer. The recording will release in the autumn.
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New release
Nick Martins 'Bittersweet' is trembling with yearning and sensual desire
19 May 2022On 3 June a new digital album will be released, presenting Nick Martin's Bittersweet for soprano, marimba and accordion with heart-aching lyrics by Sappho and Juan Ramón Jiménez.