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Two Dacapo releases shortlisted for the P2 Music Award 2022

Bo Skovhus and Christian Westergaard © Klavs Kehlet Hansen

Two Dacapo releases shortlisted for the P2 Music Award 2022

Christian Westergaard's mammoth project Peter Heise: The Song Edition and the album Music of the Abyss, presenting chamber works by Rued Langgaard, are among the nominated albums for the P2 Music Award 2022.

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17 January 2022

Danish Radio P2 has just annouced the nominated for this year's P2 Music Award. Two Dacapo releases are among the shortlisted albums in the category "Danish classical", that is the CD box Peter Heise: The Song Edition and the album Music of the Abyss

Peter Heise: The Song Edition collects for the first time Heise's almost 300 songs on 11 CDs that cover various themes. Pianist Christian Westergaard has edited the project and accompanies no less than 18 prominent Scandinavian singers, including Elsa Dreisig, Bo Skovhus, Signe Asmussen and Jakob Bloch Jespersen.

The jury writes about the nomination: "A great achievement. This first complete recording of Peter Heise's almost 300 songs, of which many have never before been recorded, is in itself a wildly impressing project. A treasury filled with Romantic melodiousness and atmosphere in luxurious recordings with a large number of our best singers and with pianist Christian Westergaard as a phenomenal officer."

Music of the Abyss presents chamber music from Rued Langgaard's youth, recorded by Esbjerg Ensemble and Signe Asmussen. On the album we experience the inner division of the composer and hear how the secure world of his youth is undercut by a dark musical understream.

The jury's motivation: "Signe Asmussen and an Esbjerg Ensemble in animated and intense interplay which makes Langgaard's chamber music vibrate like never before. A showcase in the refreshing diversity of Langgaard's music and as a bonus the hair-raising piano work Afgrundsmusik in Allan Gravgaard Madsen's colourful instrumentation for Esbjerg Ensemble." 

The P2 Music Awards will be awarded on 4 February, and already on 29 January the winners of the album awards will be revealed in the radio programme P2 Anbefaler.

Two Dacapo releases are among the nominated albums for the P2 Music Award 2022.
  • Rued Langgaard

    Music of the Abyss

  • Peter Heise

    Peter Heise: The Song Edition