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Vagn Holmboe’s three chamber symphonies span the latter half of his career, from 1951 to 1970. They are wonderful works: sophisticated, tightly contracted, imaginatively scored,
Finn Høffding’s music, though composed earlier (at least the works on this disc) reminds me of 1950s institutional architecture: drab, foursquare, functional, humorless, forgettable. It
These are remarkable works. Rued Langgaard was, as we now know, basically nuts. He composed nine string quartets, more or less, because some of them
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
The works on this disc range from 1927 to 1956, and reveal Danish composer Svend Erik Tarp (1908-94) synthesizing a personal language from the French
Knudage Riisager was a born orchestral composer, and he seemed to understand exactly what kind of writing best suited his natural proclivities. The occasional sudden
In the interest of fair-minded listening I did not read any notes to this recording or any press materials: if a modern string quartet can’t
Anders Koppel’s concertos show off not only his impressive versatility with solo instruments, but also offer stimulating musical variety as well. The neoclassical Sinfonia Concertante
Jacob Gade was a master of light music, and it would be very interesting to hear the orchestrations of as many of these pieces as
