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Langgaard: Music of the Spheres
RecommendedInger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Hetna Regitze Bruun (mezzo-soprano), Johan Reuter (baritone) & Peter Lodahl (tenor)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Danish National Concert Choir, Thomas Dausgaard
Amazing, sometimes banal but never dull. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th August 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Finalist
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Nielsen: The Mother
RecommendedPalle Knudsen (baritone), Lovisa Wennesz (harp), Rune Most, Christine Nonbo Andersen (voice), Rasmus Gravers Nielsen (voice), Steffen Bruun (voice), Rikke Lender (voice), Malene Nordtorp (voice), Rafaell Altino (viola), Adam Riis, Ole Bartholin Kiilerich (piano), Eugen Tichindeleanu (violin), Jovana...
tenor Adam Riis has the most tuneful numbers, but baritone Palle Knudsen steals the show as the Fool, with his cynical songs. The Odense Symphony Orchestra, “one of Denmark’s five regional orchestras”... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Both works, and a tiny Italian Scherzo, are lovingly played by the young Nightingale Quartet, with the colouring and shaping of each phrase carefully considered. This disc completes the group's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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There are few more fluent and adept composers at work these days than the Dane Poul Ruders... Four Dances in One Movement is a perfect example of his bright, biting and impulsive art, a play... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Chamber Finalist
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Nielsen: Maskarade
Johan Reuter, Stephen Milling, Niels-Jørgen Riis, Dénise Beck, Anne Margrethe Dahl, Ditte Højgaard Andersen, Guido Paevatalu
Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Michael Schønwandt
The mighty bass Stephen Milling catches the ageing paterfamilias Jeronimus's comically fallible humanity likeable…Denise Beck and Ditte Højgaard Andersen as love interests Leonora and her maid... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Opera, October 2015, Recording of the Month
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Magnus Lindberg: EXPO, Piano Concerto No. 2 & Al largo
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert
Gilbert secures an opulent and impressively unanimous response from the New York Philharmonic —
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Special offer. Nørgård: Der göttliche Tivoli (The Divine Circus)
Bernd Gebhardt (bass-baritone), Fabienne Jost (soprano), Steffen Kubach (baritone), Jianeng Lu (tenor), Tadahiro Masujima (tenor), Sandra Rohrbach (mezzo-soprano), Simone Tschöke (contralto), Andrea Stadel (soprano), Daniel Szeili (tenor) & Hubert Wild (baritone)
Dorian Keilhack
...a powerfully effective piece, with a text compiled by the composer from a range of sources, and the largely declamatory vocal writing underpinned mostly by a formidable battery of percussion.... —
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Sorensen achieves a convincing transition between the two styles, using the plainchant as a kind of mediation...Sorensen specifies the positioning of the choir and individual voices: the outstanding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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All of this difficult music is extraordinarily well played by the Nightingale String Quartet. Their fresh and vibrant approach surpasses the Kontra Quartet and the recorded sound for the Nightingale’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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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... —
