The teenage Langgaard celebrating his love of beauty and harmony in the most hedonistic terms with a gigantic alpine symphony. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the first orchestra to stage this masterpiece to great acclaim in 1913.
Rued Langgaard
Piano Works Vol. 4
In this fourth volume of piano works, Berit Johansen Tange captures the fierce inner life of Langgaard, his charm and incomparable twists in colour
Hans Abrahamsen
Schnee
Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee is a gorgeous marvel which encapsulates winter and already a classic of the twenty-first century,
Jesper Koch
Choirbook
A lyrical suite of seven chapters for mixed choir a cappella. A meditation on nature – complex and yet simple
Peter Heise
Drot og Marsk
A magnificent opera about events which led to the murder of King Erik Clipping in 1286
Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann B. Erben, Johann V. Meder, Matthias Weckmann, Kaspar Förster, Andreas Kirchhoff, Nicolaus Bruhns
Ich bin die Auferstehung – Buxtehude and His Copenhagen Connections
A glimpse into the sacred solo-cantata and chamber music of from the Baltic region in the latter half of the 17th century
Carl Nielsen
The Mother, Op. 41 – A Play in a Prologue and Seven Scenes
World premiere recording of Carl Nielsen's complete incidental music for The Mother
Friedrich Kuhlau, Christian Frederik Barth, Niels W. Gade
Concertos from 19th Century Denmark
Here, principal players from the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra perform fine concertante works from two composers who are experiencing a renaissance and one who still languishes in obscurity.
Jesper Koch
Dreamscapes
In a constant and fruitful dialogue with the past – three concertos with a dreamlike quality
Rued Langgaard, Jacob Gade
Symphonies 2 & 6
With the tradition-conscious Vienna Philharmonic, Langgaard's music 'returns home' to a central European musical culture
Svend Erik Tarp
Orchestral Works Vol. 1
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra sheds new light on a selection of Svend Erik Tarp's early and unknown orchestral works
Carl Nielsen, Niels W. Gade, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Vagn Holmboe, Line Tjørnhøj
Crossing Borders
Grammy-winning Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier continue to explore Danish vocal music – from Gade to Tjørnhøj
Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Scheidemann, Christian Geist, Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Adam Reincken, Franz Tunder, Matthias Weckmann, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
IN DULCI JUBILO – Music for the Christmas season by Buxtehude and friends
A stimulating addition to the traditional Christmas repertoire by the Grammy award-winning Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier
Per Nørgård
The Organ Book · Canon
Per Nørgård’s evocative Organ Book pieces and the large-scale organ work Canon
Rued Langgaard
Piano Works Vol. 3
The third volume of Rued Langgaard’s complete piano works
Dietrich Buxtehude, Christian Geist, Nicolaus Bruhns, Kaspar Förster, Franz Tunder
Buxtehude and his Circle
Theatre of Voices offers a rare insight into the circle around Buxtehude
Carl Nielsen
Symphonies 5 and 6
Nielsen’s two last symphonies complete the picture of a composer always ahead of his surroundings
Carl Nielsen
Songs for choir
The acclaimed Ars Nova Copenhagen presents a selection of Nielsen’s most popular songs
Anders Koppel
Marimba Concertos
Effervescent, jazzy music for marimba and symphony orchestra, played with trem¬en¬dous talent by 19-year-old Marianna Bednarska
Carl Nielsen
Symphonies 1 and 4
The New York Philharmonic plays “The Inextinguishable” and Nielsen’s First Symphony with irresistible dynamism and energy
Carl Nielsen, Friedrich Kuhlau, C.E.F. Weyse, J.P.E. Hartmann, Niels W. Gade, Thomas Laub, Peter Heise, Svend S. Schultz, Ib Nørholm
The Golden Age of Danish Partsongs
Paul Hillier’s interpretations of choral classics by among others Gade, Carl Nielsen and Weyse sung to perfection by Ars Nova Copenhagen
Rune Glerup, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Sunleif Rasmussen
Early & Late
Nordic folk music and contemporary avant-garde meet in a unique combination of violin, recorder and accordion
Sunleif Rasmussen
Motion/Emotion - Chamber Music
Melodierne fra færøske sange bliver til musikalsk dna i voldsomme, klanglige naturbeskrivelser af stor sanselighed
Peter Heise
Sange for mandsstemmer
Charming choral songs and quartets from the Danish Golden age. Long live woman, art and the fatherland!
Christoph Graupner, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Johann Christian Schickhardt
Royal Recorder Concertos
Virtuoso music for recorder and orchestra as it sounded at the music-loving Danish court in the 1700s
Andy Pape
An Amerikaner in Danmark
A self-ironic tribute to Gershwin from the Californian Andy Pape, who after 40 years in Denmark stands with a foot in each of two continents
Vagn Holmboe
Concertos
“One of the best viola concertos ever penned” (Gramophone) and an equally masterly violin concerto from Holmboe’s last years
Knudåge Riisager
Violin Works
The violin was Riisager’s own instrument, and in the violin works we hear his inimitable, roguish personality as directly as we could wish
Carl Nielsen
Symphonies 2 and 3
An explosive beginning to the New York Philharmonic’s sensational new series of all Carl Nielsen’s symphonies and solo concertos!
Per Nørgård
Libra
Enchanting vocal music with a vision of a world in ecstatic balance. A vocal tour de force in spectacular sound quality.
Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Symphonies
A master composer in concentrated format. Holmboe’s razor-sharp chamber symphonies encapsulate the essence of his art.
Jack Body, Anne Boyd, Liu Sola, Lou Harrison, Ross Edwards
A Bridge of Dreams
Unusua music from the Pacific Rim featuring composers and poets from China, Japan, California, New Zealand and Australia recorded by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier