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Niels Gade may not have been a particularly original personality, […]
This excellent disc completes Christopher Hogwood’s sterling Niels Gade symphony
These performances are what my French colleague Christophe Huss would call “correct”. Nothing goes wrong, all the notes are in place, and the performances are
Everyone has their favorite individual performances of the major Nielsen symphonies, but on balance Michael Schonwandt’s cycle remains the most consistently excellent available. It has
Some of this music has been recorded before, by BIS, but the overture and the complete Kalanus Suite aren’t otherwise available. Christian Horneman (1840-1906) wrote
This disc is a must for collectors of 20th-century choral music, late-Romantic “monsterpieces”, and apocalyptic memorabilia of the World War I era. Rued Langgaard’s Music
Per Norgard is a major force among Danish composers, and no wonder. His music has exuberance, brilliance, and the freedom from inhibition or routine that
Langgaard was out of his mind. Was he a crazy genius, or just plain crazy? It’s hard to say. His 16 symphonies range in length
Rued Langgaard’s First Symphony (1908-11) should prove irresistible to anyone who likes big, colorful, late-Romantic music squarely in the tradition of Wagner and Strauss (the
If there ever is to be a twinge of international interest in Knudage Riisager, then recordings like this will be essential in spreading the word.
