CD, Langgaard, R (composer)
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Lassen, Scharwenka & Langgaard: Violin Concertos
The Romantic Violin Concerto Volume 22
Linus Roth (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Antony Hermus
The D major Concerto by Lassen is the real find here, gorgeously melodious and full o unexpected twists and turns. Roth is on fine form. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic [take] on two contrasted works by Rued Langgaard that illuminate this composer in all his stylistic diversity and recklessness...Such an idiom should be in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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It’s a fervently committed reading, ablaze with radiant conviction and surging passions. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Orchestral
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Rued Langgaard was a prolific composer of piano works, which were published in their entirety in 2018; Berit Johansen Tange is already on her fourth, excellent volume dedicated to them. The... —
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Langgaard: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 3
Gunvor Sihm (violin), Berit Johansen Tange (piano)
The performance [of the Violin Sonata No. 2] focuses on the bigger picture and the two half-lit miniatures are played with considerable depth. —
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no song is merely outwardly descriptive. Each has a strong emotional resonance or narrative that speaks of the composer’s profound yearning for love. Optimism, desire, tenderness; transience,... —
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Langgaard: Complete Works Violin & Piano Volume 2
Gunvor Sihm (violin), Berit Johansen Tange (piano), Per Salo (organ), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
Youthful ambition fairly permeates the 40-minute First Violin Sonata…Of the other pieces, Andante religioso (1950) is a miniature as deft formally as it is poised expressively…Sound and annotations... —
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The Danish pianist takes a Chopinesque view of Scrabin’s Tenth Sonata; liquid passages are interrupted by extended trills – Piekut hits the sweet spot between technical accuracy and off-the-cuff... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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