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Songs from Evening Land - Per Norgard: songs in new instrumentations / Helene Gjerris, mezzo-soprano

1 CD / Dacapo / 2013-01-29

Works: Per Norgård: Recitatives (2), for voice & piano, Op. 16; Entwicklungen, songs (2) for alto, cello, flute, guitar & percussion; Plutonian Ode, for soprano & cello; Songs (3) from "L'Amour la po&#...
Performers: Abildskov, Anne Marie Fjord; Gjerris, Helene; Hansen, Johannes Soe; Jorgensen, Ulla Miilmann; Lutzhoft, Jesper; Moldrup, Toke; Rehling, Tine; Sorensen, Gert; Wallevik, Lotte
Conductors: Schreiber, Casper

This CD is a testimony of the extraordinary meeting between two strong artistic personalities. Danish mezzo-soprano Helene Gjerris explores six decades of vocal music by...continue...
Recording information: Royal Danish Academy of Music (05/2010-05/2011)....continue...

Bent Lorentzen: Erotic Hymns, sacred song cycle; organ works; Motet / Marten Frank Larsen, baritone; Jens E. Christensen, organ

1 CD / Dacapo / 2012-08-28

Works: Bent Lorentzen: Erotiske salmer (Erotic Hymns), for voice & organ, Op. 133; Triplex, for organ, Op. 40; Flamma, for percussion & organ, Op. 142; Saturnus, for organ, Op. 123; Fire Koralmotetter (Four...
Performers: Christensen, Jens E.; Larsen, Morten Frank; Stroz, Joanna

The tall, vocally hardy baritone Morten Frank Larsen, in his Met debut, was wonderful. The New York Times - March 2011 Erotic Hymns (1998) is...continue...
Recording information: Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark (08/26/2011-08/28/2011)....continue...

Per Norgard: Sceneries for percussion & ensemble - Prelude to Breaking; Four Meditations; Arabesques / Christian Martinez

1 CD / Dacapo / 2012-08-28

Works: Per Norgård: Prelude to Breaking, for 8 players; Meditations (4) on the poem "The Year" by Ole Sarvig, for flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, cello, organ &; Arabesques (3), for solo percussion; Scenes...
Performers: Martinez, Christian
Conductors: Sundkvist, Petter
Ensemble: Esbjerg Ensemble

If the music of today is to have any tomorrow, Nørgård will surely be part of it. - GRAMOPHONE The Danish composer Per Nørgård finds...continue...
Recording information: Musikhuset, Esbjerg, Denmark (06/20/2011-06/23/2011)....continue...

Ib Norholm: Tavole Per Orfeo / Else Torp, soprano; Per Palsson, guitar

1 CD / Dacapo / 2012-02-28

Works: Ib Norholm: Stilleliv (Still Life), for voice, guitar & percussion; Blomster af den danske poesis flora (Flowers from the flora of Danish Poetry), for voice & piano, Op; Tavole per Orfeo, for voice, ...
Performers: Friis-Hansen, Mathias; Palsson, Per; Torp, Else

Drama, surprise, humor and still life - with a bubbling undertone of anarchy. Composer Ib Nørholm (b. 1931) presents us with a delightful twist on...continue...
Recording information: Garnisons Kirke (2011-02-07_2011-02-08&2011-)....continue...

Tributes - Pulse / Film by Bill Morrison, Music by Simon Christensen [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / DaCapo / 2011-08-30

Works: Simon Christensen: Pulse
Performers: Astrand, Christina; Christensen, Simon; Navarro-Alonso, Peter
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kundi Bombo

Tributes-Pulse is an art movie created by the American filmmaker Bill Morrison (b. 1965) and the Danish composer and percussionist Simon Christensen (b. 1971). Christensen...continue...
Run Time: 65 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 7.1
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Pretty Sound: Solo and Chamber

1 CD / Dacapo / 2011-03-29

Works: Simon Steen-Andersen: On And Off And To And Fro, for saxophone, vibraphone, cello & 3 players with megaphones; Rerendered, for piano and 2 assistants; In Her Frown, for 2 performers; Pretty Sound (Up...
Performers: Lien, Lars; Orning, Tanja; Steen-Andersen, Simon [Composer]; Stene, Hakon; Ugelvik, Ellen
Conductors: Jung, Lars-Erik ter

The microphones are right up against the instruments in Simon Steen-Andersen's five pieces on this CD, so that all the small sounds and noises one...continue...

Per Norgard: Divine Circus

2 Super Audio CD / Dacapo / 2010-02-23

Works: Per Norgård: The Divine Circus (Der göttliche Tivoli), opera
Performers: Dessislava, Genova; Heiniger, Ferdinand [Percussion]; Kuhn, Matthias [Cello]; Rufli, Franz [Percussion]; Schar, Oliver [Percussion]; Scheidegger, Daniel; Schild, Adrian [Percussion]; Sorensen, Hans-K...
Conductors: Keilhack, Dorian

'Der gottliche Tivoli' (The Divine Circus) is Per Norgard's marvellous portrayal of the Swizz schizophrenic artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930). It stands as a key-work in...continue...
Recording information: Stadttheater Bern (09/19/2008)....continue...

Mogens Christensen: Echoes of Dreamless Fragments / Mogens Christensen, Contemporánea

1 CD / Dacapo / 2009-10-27

Works: Mogens Christensen: Nimbus of Queen Hatasu, for bass clarinet, percussion & computer; Dreamless Fragments, for violin & computer; Fragments and Echoes of East Earth DrEaming, for bass clarinet & comp...
Performers: Berthelsen, Fritz Gerhard; Goudeva, Irina Kalina; Komissarova, Alina; Larsen, Henrik
Conductors: Oyaquez, Alfredo
Ensemble: Contemporanea Ensemble; Grupo De Música Contemporânea De Lisboa

Mogens Christensen (born 1955) composes music that is both poetic and dramatic. All but one of his works featured on this CD are the result...continue...

Ruders: Concertos / Sondergård, Heide, Reumert, Aarhus SO

1 CD / Dacapo / 2009-07-28

Works: Poul Ruders: Concerto in Pieces (Purcell Variations for orchestra); Concerto for Violin & orchestra, No 1; Drama Trilogy no 2, for percussion & orchestra, "Monodrama"
Performers: Reumert, Mathias; Technician], Erik Heide [Piano
Conductors: Sondergard, Thomas

"The performances here are absolutely first rate. Concerto in Pieces has no extended solos; it's a "concerto for orchestra", and every section of the Aarhus...continue...

Pade: Aquarellen über das Meer no 1-21, Illustrationer / Gert Sorensen, et al

1 CD / Dacapo / 2009-03-31

Works: Else Marie Pade: Aquarellen über das Meer I-XXI (Water-colours of the Sea I-XXI), for speaker, harp & percussion; Illustrations (4), for harp, percussion & tape ("Fairytale")
Performers: Mikkelborg, Helen Davies; Sorensen, Gert

With this CD Dacapo presents another two works by Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) that have never before been released, or even played in a...continue...

Norgaard: Seadrift, Nova genitura, Fons laetitiae / Vist, Schreiber, Sondergård, et al

1 CD / Dacapo / 2009-03-31

Works: Per Norgård: Nova Genitura, for soprano (or chorus), violin, recorder, harpsichord, lute & viola da gamba; Seadrift, for soprano & 6 instruments; Fons Laetitiae, for voice & harp
Performers: Allan Rasmussen [Organ/Harpsichord]; Bock, Fredrik; Ernst, Marit; Hansen, Frans; Moldrup, Toke; Rehling, Tine; Ronimus, Nicolaj; Rorbech, Bodil; Sorensen, Gert; Vist, Bente
Conductors: Schreiber, Casper

Heavenly beauty and redeeming joy: Per Norgard's vocal music from the 1970s explores the ordered harmony of the universe. 'Nova Genitura' ("New birth") and 'Fons...continue...

Orvad: Works for Choir / Danish National Chorus, et al

1 CD / Dacapo / 2008-09-30

Works: Hanna Orvad: Vega, for chorus; Kornell, for chorus; Threna, paraphrase on the Stabat Mater for chorus, cello & percussion; Paschal Hymn, for chorus; Winter Organ, for chorus
Performers: Nybye, Tom; Thomsen, Henrik Dam
Conductors: Hansen, Soren K.; Parkman, Stefan; Bojesen, Michael; Bojesen, Soren Kinch

The music of the Danish composer Hanne Orvad (b. 1945) is a source of extraordinary listening experiences. In quite undogmatic ways her choral music gives...continue...

Norgärd: Nuit des Hommes / Gjerris, Ronning, et al

1 CD / Dacapo / 2004-11-16

Works: Per Norgård: Nuit des Hommes, opera
Performers: Falkbring, Markus; Gjerris, Helene; Hagman, Andreas; Lindstrom, Fredrik; Robech, Bodil; Ronning, Helge; Sorensen, Gert
Conductors: Hansen, Kaare

War as purification; war as eroticism; war as subversion - Danish composer Per Norgard's 'Nuit des Hommes' transcends the limit of opera and invites us...continue...

Nordentoft: On This Planet / Sorensen, Sandberg, Klett, etc

1 CD / Dacapo / 2003-03-01

Works: Anders Nordentoft: On this Planet "As Ants Cross Over Your Eyelids"
Performers: Klett, Anna; Nordentoft, Anders; Sandberg, Thomas
Conductors: Sorensen, Morten Ryelund
Ensemble: Athelas Sinfonietta

'On This Planet' is a new artistic idiom, a journey through life from birth to death. But it is no ordinary journey. Anders Nordentoft's past...continue...

Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Chamber Music / LINensemble

1 CD / Dacapo / 2003-03-01

Works: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Mirror Pieces; Passacaglia for Tabla, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano; Double for Violin and Piano; Territorial Song; In terra pax; Plateau pour deux
Performers: Bendsen, Mads; Ehde, John; Hansen, Frans; Kaltoft, Erik; Madsen, Signe; Schou, Jens
Conductors: Seyer-Hansen, Carsten
Ensemble: LINensemble