Guided by composer Niels Rønsholdt, Den Sidste Olie ('The Last Rites') is a groundbreaking chamber opera intricately woven into the Baroque tonal tapestry. It explores the historical odyssey of oil extraction, addressing the challenges of the climate crisis with musical sophistication.
Joachim Andersen
Works for Flute and Piano
Joachim Andersen's career followed an exceptionally varied course. As a composer, he emerges deeply rooted in his era, conveying sensitivity and enchantment on this dazzling double album of Joachim Andersen's works for flute and piano.
August Enna
Violin Concerto · Symphony No. 2
Two of Enna's most charming orchestral works: the Violin Concerto, which combines Enna's background as a violinist with his connection to opera and Nordic national Romanticism, and Symphony No. 2, which offers a constant melodic flow.
Britta Byström
Letter in April
Byström's ear for colour and her willingness to be led by instinct are both apparent in the four works included on this album, all from the clearest and most evocative of ingredients.
Nicolaus Gottschovius, Lupus Hellinck, Orlande de Lassus, Matthaeus le Maistre, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Mogens Pedersøn, Erasmus Rotenbucher, Arnolt Schlick, Ludwig Senfl, Johann Walter
Reforming Hymns
An exploration of the Danish Reformation hymnody from an international perspective.
Martin Stauning
Harp Concerto
A harp trapped by an orchestra — the new Harp Concerto by Danish sound magician Martin Stauning is an entrancing yet dramatic piece of music.
Bent Sørensen
The Island in the City
Gripping and immediate and orchestral works born out of Bent Sørensen’s quietly spoken universe
Josefine Opsahl
Atrium
A strikingly original statement exploring the duality of Opsahl's music through a precisely defined box of digital loops, bodies and buildings, human and machine.
C.F.E. Horneman
Aladdin
Horneman adds new lustre to the old fairy tale about Aladdin, taken from the Arabian One Thousand and One Nights
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
Ole Schmidt
Brass Concertos
Three momentous concertos by one of the great polymaths of the Nordic musical world, Ole Schmidt.
Hans Abrahamsen
Schnee
Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee is a gorgeous marvel which encapsulates winter and already a classic of the twenty-first century,
Niels Rosing-Schow
A Talk of Our Time
Rosing-Schow with new material that shows his special characteristics: a calligraphic, aerated clarity and sense of functionalism in which no note, timbre or colour is wasted.
SVIN
ELEGI (LP)
Presented in collaboration with the Århus Sinfonietta, SVIN's music features an adventurous acoustic and textural palette, encompassing a thoughtful and melancholic fervour.
Niels Rønsholdt
Country
In his award-winning concerto for singing solo cellist and chamber orchestra, Rønsholdt finds expressive connections among farflung sources, creating music which reflects and refracts its inspirations in the rich American country tradition
Ib Glindemann
Concertos
Two brilliant instrumental concertos and an impressive medley of his film music celebrating his distinctive flair for writing happy, undemanding, festive and effective music.
Bent Sørensen
12 Nocturnes
12 Nocturnes is wonderfully atmospheric music with a vibrating magical sound.
Rued Langgaard
Music of the Abyss
Rued Langgaard’s music written between 1913 and 1924 are undercut by a dark musical understream with Music of the Abyss as climax.
Anders Koppel, Anders Nordentoft, John Frandsen, Peter Bruun, Eva Noer Kondrup, Anders Brødsgaard, Birgitte Alsted, Andy Pape, Karsten Fundal, Amir Mayhar Tafreshipour, Mogens Christensen, Erik Ørum von Spreckelsen
Animal Universe
A charming, evocative and very useful musical menagerie of etudes
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
Der Wind bläset wo er will
Two of Olesen's major orchestral works of the 2010s – stunning music about life and about being alive: each piece is a world unto itself.
Otto Malling, Ludolf Nielsen, P.E. Lange-Müller, August Enna, Carl Nielsen, Louis Glass, Niels W. Gade, Johan Svendsen
Romance
A personal selection of rarely heard items from the classical Danish repertoire for violin from the decades around the turn of the 20th century
Bo Holten
The Emperor's New Clothes
Et portrætalbum af Bo Holten med nyindspilninger af tre af hans mest populære koncertværker
August Enna
Kleopatra
Treason, desire and murder - served on a silver platter of glorious Romantic music from 1894 in this world premiere recording
Anders Koppel, Henrik Dam Thomsen
Still Life
Still Life is a meeting of kindred spirits – yielding 15 impressions of life as captured in a dimly lit night.
Bára Gísladóttir
HĪBER
A distinct dark atmosphere, emphasizing a menacing and distorted bass scenery as presented by Bára Gísladóttir herself in an intimate solo setting
J.P.E. Hartmann, Carl Nielsen, Thomas Laub, Thorvald Aagaard, Poul Schierbeck, Peter Heise, Bo Holten, Oluf Ring, Harald Balslev, Bo Gunge, Marianne Søgaard, Ernst A. Kiørboe, N.K. Madsen-Stensgaard, Haakon Elmer, Henrik Rung, Emil Hornemann
Songs from the Borderland
The history of the Danish-German borderland can be told through songs, here sung by Danish elite vocal ensemble Musica Ficta and conducted by Bo Holten.
Bent Sørensen
Concertos
From atmospheres and feelings to memories and dreams. This recording unites three recent concertos from the Grawemeyer Award-winning composer performed by three distinguished Nordic soloists
Jakob Davidsen
THE WORLD IS BABEL AND IVORY
Discovering a fascinating world with Jacob Davidsen and company - away from the safe, conventional paths into a striking genre-hopping adventure.
Allan Gravgaard Madsen, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Nachtmusik · For Violin and Orchestra
Concertante works from one of Denmark’s most iconic composers and one of its freshest new voices.
Rued Langgaard
The String Quartets
Heralded the arrival of a major new ensemble and won the maverick Danish composer thousands of new fans
Emil Hartmann
Chamber Music
The perfect showcase for the romantic flair of Emil Hartmann
Per Nørgård
Whirl's World
Per Nørgård seems to act as a live satellite dish for the world’s signals: one suddenly hears the trees sing like aeolian harps and the waves strike the shore like strains of music – here in four chamber works by Nørgård played by Ensemble MidtVest