A journey through subtle musical movements that meticulously weave the past into the present in a remarkable manner. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ »Her album should resonate across multiple continents« Politiken
H.C. Lumbye, Joseph Lanner, Johann Strauss I
Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols
The sound of Danish popular music as it resonated in 1840s Copenhagen – a sound that no one has experienced for over 150 years. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ »This album is a revelation« Politiken. Winner of the P2 Award: Album of the Year 2023.
Line Tjørnhøj
enTmenschT
In enTmenschT, Danish composer Line Tjørnhøj weaves together the interwoven words of four ill-fated lovers amidst the devastation of the two world wars. An exceptional exploration of the human voice as a window to the soul.
Rued Langgaard
Symfoni nr. 1, Klippepastoraler
The teenage Langgaard celebrating his love of beauty and harmony in the most hedonistic terms with a gigantic alpine symphony. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the first orchestra to stage this masterpiece to great acclaim in 1913.
Rued Langgaard
Piano Works Vol. 4
In this fourth volume of piano works, Berit Johansen Tange captures the fierce inner life of Langgaard, his charm and incomparable twists in colour
Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð, Allan Gravgaard Madsen
BEINTA
Egilstrøð and Madsen's alluring symphonic song cycle about the Faroese 18th century femme fatale, Beinta. From light to dark or benevolent to threatening
Friedrich Kuhlau
Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2
The sequel to Bodendorff's highly acclaimed first album featuring Kuhlau's piano music
Hans Abrahamsen
Schnee
Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee is a gorgeous marvel which encapsulates winter and already a classic of the twenty-first century,
Jesper Koch
Choirbook
A lyrical suite of seven chapters for mixed choir a cappella. A meditation on nature – complex and yet simple
Friedrich Kuhlau
Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1
Marie-Luise Bodendorff reassesses Friedrich Kuhlau’s piano music with fresh, muscular performances of his music.
Steingrímur Rohloff
Medea/Lysistrata
Beautiful, sonorous settings of the myths of Medea and Lysistrata
Rued Langgaard
Complete Works for Violin and Piano Vol. 3
The last stage on a long journey, here is the third and final instalment of a warmly received Langgaard cycle undertaken by Gunvor Sihm and Berit Johansen Tange.
Peter Heise
Drot og Marsk
A magnificent opera about events which led to the murder of King Erik Clipping in 1286
Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol. 1
Award-winning Nightingale String Quartet here begins a new exploration of one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe
Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann B. Erben, Johann V. Meder, Matthias Weckmann, Kaspar Förster, Andreas Kirchhoff, Nicolaus Bruhns
Ich bin die Auferstehung – Buxtehude and His Copenhagen Connections
A glimpse into the sacred solo-cantata and chamber music of from the Baltic region in the latter half of the 17th century
Carl Nielsen
The Mother, Op. 41 – A Play in a Prologue and Seven Scenes
World premiere recording of Carl Nielsen's complete incidental music for The Mother
Sunleif Rasmussen
Andalag – Solo and Ensemble Works
World premiere recordings that highlight Rasmussen’s deft harbouring of momentum and energy, his gift for transformative textures, and his closeness to the unique musical traditions and landscapes of the Islands themselves
Friedrich Kuhlau, Christian Frederik Barth, Niels W. Gade
Concertos from 19th Century Denmark
Here, principal players from the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra perform fine concertante works from two composers who are experiencing a renaissance and one who still languishes in obscurity.
Jesper Koch
Dreamscapes
In a constant and fruitful dialogue with the past – three concertos with a dreamlike quality
Karl Aage Rasmussen
The Four Seasons After Vivaldi
A conversation between past and present, between classical composition and new discoveries, between composers over time spans.
Niels Viggo Bentzon
The Tempered Piano
Per Salo here turns to Bentzon’s huge-scale piano cycle The Tempered Piano. Everywhere Bentzon broke new ground – ground far from the golden mean.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Samlede strygekvartetter vol. 1
Nordic String Quartet here presents Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's first six quartets – never fusty, often entertaining, always adamant
Poul Ruders, Niels Rosing-Schow, Anders Koppel, Bent Sørensen, Karsten Fundal, Søren Nils Eichberg
Værker for solobratsch
Six leading Danish composers' exploration of the viola – the results are as touching and warm as they are fearsome and defiant
Poul Rovsing Olsen
The Planets — music for voice and instruments
Musical gems that embrace Rovsing Olsen's ambition to bring the music closer to the listener and his meeting with Oriental music
Rued Langgaard, Jacob Gade
Symphonies 2 & 6
With the tradition-conscious Vienna Philharmonic, Langgaard's music 'returns home' to a central European musical culture
Martin Ræhs, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Charles Dieupart
Brorson – The Rare Treasure of Faith
Baroque ensemble PHEMIUS CONSORT perform radiantly beautiful hymns by the most important representative of the Pietist movement, H.A. Brorson
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
Bent Sørensen
Pantomime · Rosenbad
Bent Sørensen's beautiful piano trilogy completed by Katrine Gislinge, Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet
Niels W. Gade
Erlkönigs Tochter (Elverskud/ The Elf-King's Daughter) (LP)
Beautiful vinyl with Niels W. Gade's great succes, Elverskud, in the original instrumentation and sung in German for the very first time
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
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
Per Nørgård
The Organ Book · Canon
Per Nørgård’s evocative Organ Book pieces and the large-scale organ work Canon