Fuzzy
Chimes of Memory
Danish music’s all-round handyman and whizz-kid finds imaginative tones on the organ, grand piano and electronic instruments
Niels Marthinsen, Simon Steen-Andersen, Jexper Holmen, Morten Ladehoff, Niels Rønsholdt, Kasper Jarnum
Burst
Works for saxophone and percussion written at the turn of the millennium by among others Simon Steen-Andersen and Niels Marthinsen. Hard-hitting!
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
Rune Glerup
Dust encapsulated
Portrait album with acoustic and electronic works by Rune Glerup (b. 1981), who trained in Berlin and Paris
Knudåge Riisager
The Symphonic Edition Vol. 3
Riisager’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony and other orchestral works from the 1940s. Witty, provocative and scintillating neoclassicism
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
W.A. Mozart
45 Symphonies
The most incisive and vital recording in our time of all of Mozart’s symphonies. A treasury of discoveries and rediscoveries.
Jørgen Jersild
Chamber Music
A sophisticated stylist from the middle of the 20th century. Jørgen Jersild brought a French tone to Danish music
Morten Olsen
Be My Quiet Friend
Morten Olsen, composer, bassist and guitarist in many genres, combining jazz fusion and performance with scored music
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
Knudåge Riisager
The Symphonic Edition Vol. 2
Riisager’s orchestral music from the 1920s and 1930s is a virtuosic jumble of moods. Festive, cheeky and enthusiastic about the future
Herman D. Koppel, Anders Koppel, Benjamin Koppel
Carion plays Koppel - Wind Quintets
Vital and playful chamber music from three generations of a unique Danish musician family: Herman, Anders and Benjamin Koppel
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sceneries for percussion and ensemble
Four magical, virtuosic percussion works inspired by the forms of nature and eastern mysticism.
Bent Lorentzen
Erotic Hymns
Intense music for baritone and organ, where the religious and the erotic meet to texts from three centuries.
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.
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.