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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
