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
Steingrímur Rohloff
Medea/Lysistrata
Beautiful, sonorous settings of the myths of Medea and Lysistrata
Lars Hegaard
Octagonal Room – Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar
A fascinating picture of the guitar’s possibilities as a solo instrument, as accompanist and as the first amongst equals in chamber music.
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.
Peter Heise
Peter Heise: The Song Edition
Nearly every song by Heise, almost 300 songs in all, for the first time. 'Album of the year', DR P2 Prize 2022
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
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
Der Wind bläset wo er will
Two of Olesen's major orchestral works of the 2010s – stunning music about life and about being alive: each piece is a world unto itself.
Jakob Buchanan
On Rosenhill
A tribute to the neighbourhood where the composer and jazz trumpeter Jakob Buchanan grew up and which he has revisited many years later.
August Enna
Kleopatra
Treason, desire and murder - served on a silver platter of glorious Romantic music from 1894 in this world premiere recording
Anders Koppel, Henrik Dam Thomsen
Still Life
Still Life is a meeting of kindred spirits – yielding 15 impressions of life as captured in a dimly lit night.
Karl Aage Rasmussen
Alone & Together
Karl Aage Rasmussen here extends his musical explorations of the solo concerto focusing on the relationship between the individual and the community
Ludwig van Beethoven, Hakon Børresen, Niels W. Gade, Edvard Grieg, Friedrich Kuhlau, H.C. Lumbye, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber
King Frederik IX Conducts
The King on the podium – a celebration of the close monarch/orchestra relationships between King Frederik IX and the Royal Danish Orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
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.
Bent Sørensen
Concertos
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
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
Jakob Davidsen
THE WORLD IS BABEL AND IVORY
Discovering a fascinating world with Jacob Davidsen and company - away from the safe, conventional paths into a striking genre-hopping adventure.
Allan Gravgaard Madsen, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Nachtmusik · For Violin and Orchestra
Concertante works from one of Denmark’s most iconic composers and one of its freshest new voices.
Emil Hartmann
Chamber Music
The perfect showcase for the romantic flair of Emil Hartmann
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.
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.
Søren Nils Eichberg
Scherben – Works for Piano and Ensemble
From the rhapsodic to the cryptic and from the joyous to the cautionary, they present a picture of one of Europe’s brightest young composers in the full flow of inspiration
Per Nørgård
Whirl's World
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
Piano Pieces
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
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
Nanna, Gunnar Nyborg-Jensen, Henning Hansen, Benny E. Andersen, Sebastian, Jan Rørdam, Poul Schierbeck, Thorbjørn Egner, Carl Nielsen, Knud Vad Thomsen, Mogens Jermiin Nissen, Vagn Skovlund
The Children’s Treasury of Song
15 of the most beloved Danish children's songs sung by the children's choirs of DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
Siobhan Lamb
The Red Shoes
"She danced and couldn’t stop dancing, danced into the dark night." The Red Shoes – Hans Christian Andersen's cruel fairy tale here given a modern musical reworking by Danish resident Siobhan Lamb and the Suoni Ensemble
Niels W. Gade
Erlkönigs Tochter & Fünf Gesänge
Erlkönigs Tochter, one of Gade’s greatest successes, is here put together with his breakthrough as an a cappella composer, Fünf Gesänge
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
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
Knudåge Riisager
Violin Concerto – Etudes
"Like the fizz in a mineral water". Knudåge Riisager's world-famous Etudes put together with his innovative Violin Concerto
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen
Ophelia Dances
Smooth, exquisite tones with a completely modern expression. Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen's fine sound effects spread over three works.