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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With this superlative 1999 recording by violinist Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard, the Swedish modernist Allan Pettersson's late Second Violin Concerto receives its first digital recording. The only previous recording on Capriccio from 1980 had been performed by the forces that gave the work its ...
This is certainly among the finest recordings of Schumann's orchestral music ever made, standing alongside the classic recordings of Szell, Sawallisch, Solti, Kubelik, Klemperer, and above all Walter and Furtwängler. How could this be? Because Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have accomplished the impossible: they make the music ...
Even at his roughest and toughest, twentieth century Swedish composer Dag Wirén is no bully boy modernist composer. While his writing is polished, his lines are clean and his shapes are focused, Wirén is still tonal, still melodic, and still readily comprehensible. This doesn't make Wirén any less a modernist -- his acerbic asides and mordant ...
Jeffrey Bryant began his tenure as principal horn of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1975, and made this recording of Mozart's complete works for horn and orchestra in 1994. The soloist's decision of whether to use an instrument modeled on a natural horn of Mozart's era or a modern valve horn is the first question connoisseurs of these ...
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, whose long name is commonly shortened to J.P.E., was, along with his son-in-law Niels Gade, the major figure in Danish nineteenth-century Romanticism. Hartmann's worklist is impressively enormous and his music has been recorded with considerable depth, particularly by Danish labels. While the generous offering on ...
Half a decade after their first release on Chandos, Brilliant Classics has re-released Thomas Dausgaard and the Danish National Radio Symphony's recording Berwald's four symphonies. The only thing that has changed between the two releases is the price. The quality of the pieces, the performances, and the sound remain as they were before. The ...
About halfway through the second movement of Danish composer Per Nørgård's Third Symphony, some listeners may feel tempted to stop the disc. You'll know it when you get there: the moment when the post-expressionist mists clear and the mixed choir suddenly breaks into a rambunctious Latin American dance number. Don't give up. While the opening ...
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