Featuring some of Denmark’s finest young singers, this album presents world premiere recordings of Tekla Griebel Wandall’s songs, spanning from her 1890s debut to the esoteric visions of her later years.
Simon Løffler, Juliana Hodkinson, Jexper Holmen, Christian Winther Christensen, Alexandra Hallén
Jounce
On 'Jounce', cellist and performer Alexandra Hallén explores the visceral limits of her instrument, navigating a landscape of fevered intensity until it is as if the fever breaks.
In his ‘Miniatures’ series, Mads Emil Dreyer creates a shimmering, hybrid soundworld where acoustic instruments are haunted by electronic ‘shadow’ tones, exploring the uncanny gap between the natural and the synthetic.
This album provides the first real insight into Vagn Holmboe’s private, spiritual side, exploring his vision of eternal rebirth through world-premiere recordings of ’Die Erfüllung’, ’Song at Sunset’ and ’Ode til sjælen’.
12 Nocturnes & Piano Concerto No. 3, La sera estatica
From the intimate '12 Nocturnes' to the world premiere of his third piano concerto 'La sera estatica', this album captures the essence of Bent Sørensen’s poetic piano music with Katrine Gislinge, Copenhagen Phil and John Storgårds.
Karsten Fundal, Christian Winther Christensen, Søren Nils Eichberg
Viola Concertos
Featuring three 21st-century Danish viola concertos written for Rafaell Altino, 'Viola Concertos' highlights the versatile nature of the instrument while revealing the unique voice of each composer.
Carl Christian Nicolaj Balle, Carl Nielsen, Henrik Rung, Rued Langgaard, Thora Borch, P.E. Lange-Müller, Lena Jonsson, Per Nørgård, Arvid Svenungsson, A.P. Berggreen, H.C. Lumbye, Caroline Recke-Madsen
Decembersol
With warmth, intimacy and distinct roots in Nordic folk traditions, Dybfølt here reimagines beloved Christmas classics from Denmark and Sweden.
Agerfeldt Olesen’s Violin Concerto (2024) is a journey from lyrical fragility through intense conflict and back to calm, full of virtuosic cadenzas that both explore and challenge.
This book presents the complete 'EMP Series' from Dacapo Records, showcasing Else Marie Pade’s electronic works in newly digitized and previously unreleased versions.
Over ten summers, the Mikkelborg Riessler Siegel Trio developed a wholly unique musical voice under the open sky in Louisiana’s Sculpture Park, shaped by time and place.
In Bent Sørensen’s Pop Songs (1990), Michael Strunge’s poetry is woven into music for tenor and piano, at once delicate, dramatic and tinged with romantic colour.
Else Marie Pade's experiments with the beat frequency phenomenon – the foundation of her final electronic composition and a unique encounter between generations.
A compelling exploration of Niels Rosing-Schow's evocative chamber music, culminating in his exquisite rendition of Debussy’s 'Six Épigraphes antiques'.
Niels Rønsholdt’s solo project 'Aftermath' journeys the American highway, observing cities and landscapes in decay, and reflecting on a fractured modern society.
Simon Christensen’s ’EKSTASIS – Polyphōnos discordiae’, a 45-minute work performed by the Polish NeoQuartet, expands the string quartet’s boundaries with a captivating soundscape that is both meditative and ferocious.
This album features Glerup's String Quartet No. 2 and Clarinet Quintet, where Beckettian absurdism and musical references from Boulez to Brahms merge into Glerup's distinctive sonic universe.
Between 1968-71, Else Marie Pade created 'Aquarellen über das Meer I-XXI' and 'Klangfarver fra EMS', two works exploring visual-musical transformations and electronic manipulation of acoustic recordings respectively.
With a profound poetic sensibility, Pade transforms Goethe's classic myth of the scholar Faust into a dramatic electronic universe, where God resonates as an electronic bell and the devil hisses like a snake.
Once overlooked, Rued Langgaard’s songs – now rediscovered – blends Romantic grandeur, impressionistic delicacy, and poetic depictions of nature, showcased in this digital EP featuring soprano Louise McClelland Jacobsen.
Axel Borup-Jørgensen's unique ability to create complex and poetic soundscapes for multiple guitars unfolds on this EP, recorded by the guitar ensemble CRAS and captured on reel-to-reel tape.
