Mozart’s Symphonies 6-8 as well as two unnumbered works from the same period. Adam Fischer gives new format to the early symphonies
Andy Pape
An Amerikaner in Danmark
A self-ironic tribute to Gershwin from the Californian Andy Pape, who after 40 years in Denmark stands with a foot in each of two continents
C.F.E. Horneman, Asger Hamerik
String Quartets
Vital youthful works by the two cousins Horneman and Hamerik, who gave Danish Romanticism new colours and a new mood
Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen
Phantasmagoria - Danish Piano Trios
Three masterworks by Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen and Bent Sørensen. Profound, sensual music with Nordic cool
Søren Nils Eichberg
Before Heaven, Before Earth - Symphonies 1 and 2
Søren Nils Eichberg grabs the audience with his dynamic and effective mastery of the grand orchestra
Bent Sørensen
La Notte
Bent Sørensen’s captivating piano concerto La Notte from 1998 is a marvel of beauty: the night as dream and reality
Vagn Holmboe
Concertos
“One of the best viola concertos ever penned” (Gramophone) and an equally masterly violin concerto from Holmboe’s last years
Ejnar Kanding, Frank Bretschneider
Auxiliary Blue
An experimental encounter between the electronics cult figure Frank Bret¬schneider from Berlin and the classically schooled Ejnar Kanding from Denmark
Niels Rosing-Schow
Peinture du temps - Works for sinfonietta
Sound magic from the world of spectral music in five exquisite chamber works by the Francophile composer Niels Rosing-Schow
Mogens Christensen
Pipes and Reeds
Dreaming, slow music for Japanese shakuhachi flute, organ and electronics. Three works that take you on a spiritual journey
Birgitte Alsted
Agnete's Laughter
Prizewinning electro-acoustic sound collages based on the folk tale of Agnete and the Merman
Bo Holten
Venus' Wheel - Works for Choir
New works by Bo Holten, one of the ablest choral composers and directors of our time, here fronting the Flemish Radio Choir
Knudåge Riisager
Violin Works
The violin was Riisager’s own instrument, and in the violin works we hear his inimitable, roguish personality as directly as we could wish
Per Nørgård
Songs from Evening Land - Helene Gjerris sings Per Nørgård
Intense, innovative songs and vocal works from half a century, recorded in close collaboration with the composer
Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Music (II)
Five works for different chamber ensembles, where the meeting of the instruments creates strong, natural forms
Carl Nielsen
Symphonies 2 and 3
An explosive beginning to the New York Philharmonic’s sensational new series of all Carl Nielsen’s symphonies and solo concertos!
W.A. Mozart
Symphonies Vol. 9
Mozart’s famous Paris Symphony (no. 31) in two versions, as well as Symphonies 33-34
Erik Norby
The Rainbow Snake - Orchestral Songs and Symphonic Works
Orchestral magic in one of the most impressive orchestra pieces of the 1970s with sophisticated, almost Late Romantic sounds.
Vagn Holmboe
Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar
Transparent, poetic music by Holmboe, who was captivated at a late age by the unique possibilities of the guitar.
Poul Rovsing Olsen
Piano Concerto and Orchestral Works
Brilliant music from the 1950s by a composer with an unusually international outlook. A real discovery!
Per Nørgård
Libra
Enchanting vocal music with a vision of a world in ecstatic balance. A vocal tour de force in spectacular sound quality.
Per Nørgård
Sceneries for percussion and ensemble
Four magical, virtuosic percussion works inspired by the forms of nature and eastern mysticism.
Electronic Music Produced at DIEM 1987-2012
A cavalcade of electronic works created over 25 years by a wide selection of Danish composers at the Danish Institute for Electronic Music.
Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Symphonies
A master composer in concentrated format. Holmboe’s razor-sharp chamber symphonies encapsulate the essence of his art.
Bent Lorentzen
Erotic Hymns
Intense music for baritone and organ, where the religious and the erotic meet to texts from three centuries.
Katrine Ring, Vagn Holmboe
A Hand for Holmboe
The well known Danish DJ Katrine Ring deconstructs and remixes Vagn Holmboe’s Chamber Concertos from the 1940s.
Peter Bruun, Jexper Holmen, Torben Snekkestad, Morten Olsen, Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
Spaces and Places
Brand new solo works, played by a single flute in the unique medieval abbey church at Løgumkloster.
Carl Nielsen
The Masterworks Vol. 2 — Chamber and Instrumental Works
All Dacapo’s latest recordings of Carl Nielsen’s chamber and piano works, played by Danish musicians with Nielsen’s absolutely distinctive tone in their blood.
Per Nørgård
Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Chamber version of Per Nørgård’s left-field cantata based on Hans Christian Andersen’s crazy tale. DVD with documentary film about the performance enclosed!Chamber version of Per Nørgård’s left-field cantata based on Hans Christian Andersen’s crazy tale. DVD with documentary film about the performance enclosed!
Rued Langgaard
String Quartets Vol. 1
A dramatic breakthrough for both Langgaard’s unrestrained quartet art from the beginning of the 1900s and the young female Nightingale Quartet.
Per Nørgård, Ole Schmidt, Anders Koppel, Martin Lohse
Accordion Concertos
The internationally famous virtuoso Bjarke Mogensen makes the accordion an irresistible solo instrument in four energetic concertos from the past 50 years.
Kasper Rofelt
The song I'll never sing - Works for Accordion
Magical new music written specifically for the young accordion virtuoso Bjarke Mogensen. Minimalistic and virtuosic all at the same time.