Fini Henriques had a special gift for beautiful, well-shaped melodies – with a generous output of single pieces, usually strung together in collections such as those presented here by Christina Bjørkøe
Fini Henriques
Works for Violin and Piano
Henriques at his best: short pieces with a sharp characterisation – works with charm, warm-heartedness and gravity
Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Navarro-Alonso
Goldberg Variations
The legendary Goldberg Variations in a whole new way
Nicolai Worsaae
Wesenheit ab Wesenheit
Music to poems by the German prisoner Jörg Meyer, who during the late 70s was in solitary confinement in a Danish prison, imprisoned for espionage for the GDR
Signe Lykke
Body Textures
A beautiful sonic journey into the human body’s different cells
Martin Lohse
Collage de temps
Baroque, Romanticism and American Minimalism united by pianist David Lau Magnussen and an exclusive team of instrumentalists
Clemens non Papa, Conrad Rein, Thomas Stoltzer, Lucas Lossius, Johannes Alectorius
Thomissøn's Easter
Reconstruction of a Lutheran service in Ribe Cathedral, 1560, featuring Clemens non Papa’s ‘Missa Virtute magna’
Niels W. Gade
Piano Works
Shiriynan breathes new life into the great Danish Romantic composer
Grammy nominated recordings of an evocative American composer
Paul von Klenau
Symphony No. 9
The magnificent symphony that was found in a plastic bag in Vienna after 50 years
Niels W. Gade, P.E. Lange-Müller, Rued Langgaard
Danish Romantic Piano Trios
The debut album of the Danish Piano Trio potraying four great Romantic composers
Lars Graugaard
Venus
Four works depicting Lars Graugaard’s search for a new rich and varied musical discourse
Carl Nielsen
Maskarade
Michael Schønwandt conducts a sparkling cast of today’s finest Nielsen singers and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Rued Langgaard
String Quartets Vol. 3
Third and last album in the epoch-making series that makes the picture of Lang¬gaard’s many-faceted personality clearer then ever
Rued Langgaard
String Quartets Vol. 2
A world of hypersensitive romanticism. The Nightingale Quartet play Langgaard’s works for string quartet with raw nerve.
Magnus Lindberg
EXPO - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Al largo
The New York Philharmonic with chief conductor Alan Gilbert in three new works by Magnus Lindberg, one of the Nordic composers with the most infectious delight in music
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
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
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.
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.
Bent Sørensen, Johannes Ockeghem
Requiem
Paul Hillier conducts Ockeghem’s famous Requiem from the 1400s, completed in our own time by Bent Sørensen. A uniquely beautiful encounter.
Sunleif Rasmussen
Dancing Raindrops
Five solo and chamber works combining echoes of traditional Faroese folk music with Baroque structures and electronically manipulated sounds
Jexper Holmen
Oort Cloud
A 40-minute sphere of sound, inspired by the cloud of comets believed to surround the solar system a light-year away.
Sunleif Rasmussen
Orchestral Works
First symphony by a Faroese composer – winner of the Nordic Council’s Music Prize