New digital formats from Dacapo
Dacapo is working increasingly on new digital release formats. The catalogue already contains a number of purely digital releases and more are coming up.
Within classical and new music, purely digital releases are still not widespread. This Dacapo is now challenging by also working purely digitally and in the single format, so as to get the opportunity to release works that, for example, do not fit the CD format and also to assist composers and musicians who wish to be able to work on material targeted on digital presence.
New and old music as digital releases
Purely digital releases are already to be found in Dacapo's catalogue. Earlier this year Louise Alenius' choral work ILT (Oxygen) from the sound and light installation The Wave was released as a digital single. The five-part choral work offers a foretaste of her coming opera, which is to have its premiere at Royal Danish Opera in spring 2022, and has been recorded by five star singers from The Royal Danish Opera. Stream the work here.
The textural work Body Textures by Signe Lykke is released as an audio-visual EP with video art by the renowned Japanese artist Yoshi Sodeoka. The orchestral work is a sonic journey into the human body, and cross-sectional images of cell types have served as an inspirational source for the different texture areas and movements. Stream the work here.
Most recently, Dacapo has released three recordings of the Educate·S educational sheet music series of newly written composition music for children and young people, published by the Danish music publisher Edition·S. The three albums are available on all streaming platforms: Pieces for Violin, Pieces for Guitar and Pieces for Piano. Also the remaining three collections of the series will be recorded and released digitally within the next year.
The digital format is not only well suited for newly written music. Jacob Gade's world famous Tango Jalousie has since the first performance in 1925 become perhaps the absolutely most frequently played piece of Danish music for almost a century. The work is revived as a digital single i 2018, in the brand new recording by the Vienna Philharmonic. Stream the recording here.
Later the work was included in the SACD with Rued Langgaard's Symphonies 2 and 6.
More digital releases on their way
This summer, one can look forward to a new digital release with the newly qualified Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir, who has been awarded prizes such as the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize and the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation Talent Award, and whose works have been performed by The Danish National Radio Orchestra and Athelas Sinfonietta among others.