Nancy Dalberg: The String Quartets
Nordic String Quartet
Nancy Dalberg: The String Quartets
Nordic String Quartet
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Three superb and deeply moving quartets in outstanding performances.
About
Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949) completed three string quartets, and they hold a place of their own among her compositions. No. 1 in D minor was the very first instrumental work that she presented at a public concert (1915). No. 2 in G minor, op. 14 (1922), was the first work that was published and played outside Denmark, while No. 3, op. 20 (1927), which is dedicated to her teacher, Carl Nielsen, was not published during her lifetime. The present release of the three quartets features two world premiere recordings. Nancy Dalberg is considered one of the first female composers in Denmark, and she was the first woman in Denmark to compose a symphony. This release sheds new light on one of the world’s finest female composers, who due to her lifetime never got the acknowledgement she deserved.
Contents and tracklist
- Heiðrun Petersen (violin), Mads Haugsted Hansen (violin), Daniel Eklund (viola), Lea Emilie Brøndal (cello)
- Nordic String Quartet
- Heiðrun Petersen (violin), Mads Haugsted Hansen (violin), Daniel Eklund (viola), Lea Emilie Brøndal (cello)
- Nordic String Quartet
- Heiðrun Petersen (violin), Mads Haugsted Hansen (violin), Daniel Eklund (viola), Lea Emilie Brøndal (cello)
- Nordic String Quartet
Awards and reviews
November 2019
Three superb and deeply moving quartets in outstanding performances.
July 2020
Giving voice to the quartets of a highly individual Nordic talent... The response of the Nordic Quartet is appropriately tough and sinewy, sensitively voiced and spaciously engineered.