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The other Nielsen/Dacapo C

Victor Carr Jr

Danish composer Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939) is a near exact contemporary of Denmark’s national musical icon, Carl Nielsen. Though the two are no relation, they had

Jeanne d’Arc Soundtrack

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This is new music written expressly for the famous 1927 Carl Dreyer silent movie. Ole Schmidt is best known as the conductor who recorded an

Holmboe: String Quartets Vol.5

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Composed between 1975 and 1978, Vagn Holmboe’s String Quartets Nos. 13 to 15 venture deeper and deeper into introspection and melancholy. Half of the movements

Bentzon Symphonies/Dacapo

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Danish composer Niels Viggo Bentzon is a phenomenon. At 80 years old, his catalogue has reached the amazing figure of 650 compositions, among them several

JPR Hartmann Overture/dacapo

David Hurwitz

Let’s get the downside over with first. The Golden Horns is a melodrama: in other words, speech over music. The poem, in Danish, is one

Nielsen 2 and 3 dacapo

David Hurwitz

The most impressive thing about this extraordinary first entry in dacapo’s new Nielsen symphony cycle is the combination of clarity and total naturalness that Michael