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      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.

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      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.

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      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

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      Friedrich Kuhlau

      Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2

      The sequel to Bodendorff's highly acclaimed first album featuring Kuhlau's piano music

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      Friedrich Kuhlau

      Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1

      Marie-Luise Bodendorff reassesses Friedrich Kuhlau’s piano music with fresh, muscular performances of his music.

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      Steingrímur Rohloff

      Medea/Lysistrata

      Beautiful, sonorous settings of the myths of Medea and Lysistrata

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      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.

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      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

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      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

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      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.

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      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.

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      Friedrich Kuhlau

      Violin Sonatas Vol. 2

      Duo Åstrand/Salo follow-up their first installment of sonatas by Friedrich Kuhlau with a selection of some of the composer’s most convincing works for violin and piano

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      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

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      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

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      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

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      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

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      Bent Sørensen

      Pantomime · Rosenbad

      Bent Sørensen's beautiful piano trilogy completed by Katrine Gislinge, Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet

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      Hans Abrahamsen

      10 Preludes, Six Pieces, Transcriptions of Satie & Nielsen

      New recordings of early works show Abrahamsen’s crystalline magic

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      Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Green Ground

      A unique collection of works written for the Kronos Quartet and Theatre of Voices

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      Gustav Helsted

      Decet & String Quartet

      Charming Romantic works by a rediscovered Danish composer

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      Hans Abrahamsen

      Works for Wind Quintet

      Early chamber works by a unique Nordic composer

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      Axel Borup-Jørgensen

      Viola Works

      Intriguing viola works depicting Axel Borup-Jørgensen's fascination with the dark, rich instrument

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      Johann Schop, Thomas Kingo , Jean-Baptiste Lully, Dietrich Buxtehude

      Thomas Kingo's Sacred Song Books

      A selection of the most beautiful Kingo hymns as they were originally intended

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      Axel Borup-Jørgensen

      Carambolage

      Four chamber works from the 1960s and 1970s, where every single note is given minute attention

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      Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Mixed Company

      A large-scale work cycle for chamber orchestra and singing voices, based on John Dowland’s Renaissance melody Flow my tears

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      Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen

      Through the Looking Glass

      Superior deployment of artistic freedom from the trio Alpha, who reinterpret modern works by among others Per Nørgård and Bent Sørensen

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      Per Nørgård

      Sceneries for percussion and ensemble

      Four magical, virtuosic percussion works inspired by the forms of nature and eastern mysticism.

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      Vagn Holmboe

      Chamber Music (I)

      World premiere recording of rarely performed chamber works by Vagn Holmboe

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