Much of the music on this disc is unknown outside Denmark, but perhaps this superb recording by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard will change that situation. Listeners in Anglophone countries tend to know Carl Nielsen through his symphonies, weighty and formally ambitious; his lighter music is represented mostly by the ...
Although Hans Abrahamsen began his career as a follower of the "New Simplicity" movement in Denmark -- a conservative effort in the 1960s to counter the influence of the avant-garde -- he subsequently developed his own methods and moved on to fashion a more idiosyncratic and intuitive practice. Drawing on many compositional techniques, from ...
A century after its premiere, Carl Nielsen's Maskarade remains one of Denmark's little secrets. Not an actual secret, mind you: the opera has had numerous international productions, and the very nationalistic Danes would love for it to have a wider audience. But, largely because it isn't in one of the "big four" operatic languages (Italian, French ...
Berlioz conceived Lélio, ou La retour à la vie as a sequel to his Symphonie Fantastique, and intended the two to be performed together. The genre of Lélio is difficult to pin down. The composer calls it a "Monodrame lyrique," which isn't a very helpful description. There are multiple characters, and the score includes stage directions more ...
From his youthful Second and Third symphonies, it is possible to discern only a few of the artistic fingerprints of the mature Danish post-Romantic composer Rued Langgaard. One hears his love of nature, his love of life, and, in his expansive developments and extended climaxes, his love of his own compositional technique. One hears his energy, his ...
To get a canary to stop singing, you put a blanket over its cage; the recorder family was a whole group of instruments that had the proverbial blanket thrown over it from the time the transverse flute appeared in about 1720 until Arnold Dolmetsch built his first good recorder in 1919. Two hundred years of sleep is a long time, and the recorder's ...
In his native Denmark, composer Ole Schmidt has enjoyed renown for his music since 1954, when his first concerted work, his Piano Concerto, was widely heard on Danish radio. When this concerto was written, Schmidt was still a student, pumping piano in restaurants and for ladies' gymnastics classes, and several years more would elapse before ...
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