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Bent Lorentzen uses a strongly gestural musical language, and he has a real knack for inventing memorable “events” that, in tandem with driving percussion ostinatos,
Emil Hartmann was the son of the formerly illustrious J.P.E. Hartmann, and he lived his life in his father’s shadow, dying (in 1898) two years
With this third volume, Danish organist Bine Bryndorf continues her ambitious project to record Dietrich Buxtehude’s complete organ works for Dacapo. Unlike the first two
The title “Music Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytales” isn’t quite correct. Schierbeck’s Prelude for Strings is a song paraphrase on the Andersen poem “In
Cellists seeking substantial solo contemporary repertoire are faced with an abundance of excellent options, including the works on this disc devoted to Danish composers. It
Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) may have been Denmark’s most prolific composer ever: his enormous output for piano includes at least 30 solo sonatas. Bentzon’s considerable
It was sad, listening to this excellent disc–sad because of all the post-Nielsen Danish composers, only two, Holmboe and Riisager, have much hope of becoming
Rued Langgaard’s Antikrist is fabulous–a genuine, undiscovered, eccentric masterpiece. Of course, it helps that the composer was basically out of his mind, poor guy, and
The choral music presented here is musicologically important because it brings to life early Danish works only recently discovered and published. The composer is Bartholomaeus
If you were hanging around a conservatory during the 1970s and ’80s, and you were paying attention, you will be familiar with the style of
