
This is the most interesting and rewarding volume to date in Dacapo’s ongoing Herman Koppel orchestral music edition. The Fifth Symphony is a splendid work.
This is proving to be a very fine series, devoted to the complete organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude (type Q7355 in Search Reviews for my
Based on a drama by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Poul Rovsing Olsen’s one-act opera Belisa (1966) turns convention on its head with a surrealistic
Danish composer Jesper Koch (b. 1967) composes in what we might call a “neo-Romantic” idiom, to the extent that his music is colorfully orchestrated for
Composer/conductor Bo Holten is a significant figure in contemporary choral music. With his founding of the vocal ensemble Ars Nova in 1979 he brought both
Volume 3 of Dacapo’s Herman Koppel orchestral series is the strongest so far, presenting one of the 20th century’s great works–the Symphony No. 3. Cast
This ambitious undertaking–Volume 1 in a series devoted to the complete organ works of Buxtehude–presents a well-chosen variety of pieces, 18 in all, that includes
If you don’t know the music of Vagn Holmboe, a Danish modern who is considered that country’s greatest composer behind Nielsen, you should. His 1963
Vagn Holmboe’s 20 mature string quartets comprise an extremely important and musically worthwhile 20th century contribution to the genre, worthy to stand beside those of
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller’s musical reputation rests on his large number of songs, many of which have become popular favorites in his native Denmark. The two