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.
Per Nørgård
Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Chamber version of Per Nørgård’s left-field cantata based on Hans Christian Andersen’s crazy tale. DVD with documentary film about the performance enclosed!Chamber version of Per Nørgård’s left-field cantata based on Hans Christian Andersen’s crazy tale. DVD with documentary film about the performance enclosed!
Kasper Rofelt
The song I'll never sing - Works for Accordion
Magical new music written specifically for the young accordion virtuoso Bjarke Mogensen. Minimalistic and virtuosic all at the same time.
Finn Høffding
Orchestral Works
Original, subtle music from Finn Høffding, who was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and became one of the inter-war period’s most important composers.
Ib Nørholm
Tavole per Orfeo
Exquisite, poetic songs for soprano and guitar, written in the 1960s by a classic master of Danish music.
Gunnar Berg
Chamber Music Works with Piano
Uncompromising music from the 1950s and 1960s by one of Denmark’s most acute, international modernists.
Wayne Siegel
Terra
Pioneering works by the American-born composer Wayne Siegel, where the computer interacts with acoustic instruments and the human voice.
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen
Dance and Detours
Rhythmic, precise chamber works from the 21st century where princes and mermaids take dangerous detours.
Heinrich Schütz
The Complete Narrative Works
Box collection of Paul Hillier and Ars Nova Copenhagen’s highly acclaimed recordings of all of Schütz’s passions and narrative oratorios from the late Renaissance.
Knudåge Riisager
The Symphonic Edition Vol. 1
Blændende orkesterværker af Knudåge Riisager, der forenede et fuldtidsarbejde som embedsmand med en omfattende virksomhed som komponist
Niels Marthinsen
Snapshot Symphony
Marthinsen belongs to a generation grown up with comic books, superheroes and science fiction – he welcomes all of these phenomena into his symphonic music
Carl Nielsen
The Masterworks Vol. 1 – Orchestral Music
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra's hailed recordings of Nielsen's orchestral music, including the six symphonies on both CD and DVD, now beautifully boxed
Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Music (I)
World premiere recording of rarely performed chamber works by Vagn Holmboe
Anders Koppel
Concertos
A long succession of original works, all bearing the mark of a special ability to communicate emotions and energy, powerfully and straightforwardly, between musicians and audience.
