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.
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
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 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
Music to poems by the German prisoner Jörg Meyer, who during the late 70s was in solitary confinement in a Danish prison, imprisoned for espionage for the GDR
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
