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
Works for Violin and Piano
Henriques at his best: short pieces with a sharp characterisation – works with charm, warm-heartedness and gravity
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
Friedrich Kuhlau, Otto Malling
Piano Quartet No. 3 · Piano Quartet in C minor
Two string quartets by composers cosmopolitan and conservative - Kuhlau with large, dramatic wingspan and Malling with clear, tempting sensuality
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
Anders Monrad, SUPERFLEX, Nikolaj Heltoft
The Mærsk Opera (LP)
An opera about the relationship between the privileged individual, his business and the surrounding community. Cool double vinyl, designed by artist group SUPERFLEX.
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen
Ophelia Dances
Smooth, exquisite tones with a completely modern expression. Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen's fine sound effects spread over three works.
Poul Rovsing Olsen
The Planets — music for voice and instruments
Musical gems that embrace Rovsing Olsen's ambition to bring the music closer to the listener and his meeting with Oriental music
Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Navarro-Alonso
Goldberg Variations
The legendary Goldberg Variations in a whole new way
Rued Langgaard
Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2
Violin Sonata No. 1 accompanied by Langgaard's last violin work, the Andante Religioso, and the Sunday Sonate, one of his most bizarre works
Nicolai Worsaae
Wesenheit ab Wesenheit
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
Signe Lykke
Body Textures
A beautiful sonic journey into the human body’s different cells
Rued Langgaard, Jacob Gade
Symphonies 2 & 6
With the tradition-conscious Vienna Philharmonic, Langgaard's music 'returns home' to a central European musical culture
Søren Nils Eichberg
Symphony No. 3 · Morpheus
The culmination of composer Søren Nils Eichberg's residency with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Martin Ræhs, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Charles Dieupart
Brorson – The Rare Treasure of Faith
Baroque ensemble PHEMIUS CONSORT perform radiantly beautiful hymns by the most important representative of the Pietist movement, H.A. Brorson
Jacob Gade
Tango Jalousie
Vienna Philharmonic's new recording of the world famous and canonized 'Tango Jalousie' by Jacob Gade
Tine Surel Lange, Andreja Andric, Wayne Siegel, Kaj Duncan David, Klavs Kehlet Hansen
CONNECT — electronic works for guitar
Prizewinning guitarist Jakob Bangsø explores captivating soundscapes in the borderland between the acoustic and the digital
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
Peter Navarro-Alonso
Le Quattro Stagioni
Ekkozone and Alpha in exhilarating performances of Peter Navarro-Alonso’s original response to masterpieces by Vivaldi
Vagn Holmboe
The Chamber Concertos & Sinfonias
Holmboe's 13 concise chamber concertos as well as the four sinfonias in the acclaimed recordings by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Oluf Ring, Aksel Agerby, Egil Harder, Sven Gyldmark, Kim Larsen, Steffen Brandt, Sebastian, Poul Schierbeck, Otto Mortensen, Carl Nielsen
Your Danish Song
12 Danish songs in new, personal interpretations by the Danish National Girls' Choir and three soloists
Phillip Faber
Sommerfugledalen (LP)
Phillip Faber's music for Inger Christensen's iconic poems – written for the Danish National Girl's Choir
Martin Lohse
Collage de temps
Baroque, Romanticism and American Minimalism united by pianist David Lau Magnussen and an exclusive team of instrumentalists
Bent Sørensen
Pantomime · Rosenbad
Bent Sørensen's beautiful piano trilogy completed by Katrine Gislinge, Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet
Niels W. Gade
Erlkönigs Tochter (Elverskud/ The Elf-King's Daughter) (LP)
Beautiful vinyl with Niels W. Gade's great succes, Elverskud, in the original instrumentation and sung in German for the very first time