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Thomas Dausgaard has some interesting ideas about Schumann’s Symphony No. 1. He takes Schumann’s Allegro molto vivace marking to heart and drives the first movement
Rued Langgaard was a loon, but a compelling loon. His Fourteenth Symphony has fanciful titles like “Radio-Caruso and forced energy” and “Dads’ rush to the
Talk about a slam-dunk! This is without doubt the finest collection of Nielsen’s short orchestral works currently available. It is perfectly played, brilliantly conducted, and
Having Dvorák’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies on a single, 82-minute-plus CD certainly represents an enticing proposition, but in the end it turns out, in the
I have the highest respect for Thomas Dausgaard’s conducting. His Beethoven with this same orchestra has been sensational, and he almost always reveals a keen
With characters like The Scarlet Beast, Hatred, Despondency, and (my own personal favorite) The Great Whore, how can you not love an opera like Antikrist?
Berlioz clearly was the model for Asger Hamerik’s 1886 Requiem, the most obvious example being the Dies irae that all but duplicates, albeit in a
This is one of those discs that features both excellent individual performances and a total package that adds up to more than the sum of
It’s impossible any more to speak of a single “right way” to play Beethoven. In fact, there are at least four distinct styles, all of
Franz Berwald deserves to be as highly regarded worldwide as he is in Scandinavia. On this recording, Thomas Dausgaard and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR
