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      H.C. Lumbye, Joseph Lanner, Johann Strauss I

      Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols

      The sound of Danish popular music as it resonated in 1840s Copenhagen – a sound that no one has experienced for over 150 years.

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      Line Tjørnhøj

      enTmenschT

      In enTmenschT, Danish composer Line Tjørnhøj weaves together the interwoven words of four ill-fated lovers amidst the devastation of the two world wars. An exceptional exploration of the human voice as a window to the soul.

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      Rued Langgaard

      Symfoni nr. 1, Klippepastoraler

      The teenage Langgaard celebrating his love of beauty and harmony in the most hedonistic terms with a gigantic alpine symphony. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the first orchestra to stage this masterpiece to great acclaim in 1913.

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      Rued Langgaard

      Piano Works Vol. 4

      In this fourth volume of piano works, Berit Johansen Tange captures the fierce inner life of Langgaard, his charm and incomparable twists in colour

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      Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð, Allan Gravgaard Madsen

      BEINTA

      Egilstrøð and Madsen's alluring symphonic song cycle about the Faroese 18th century femme fatale, Beinta. From light to dark or benevolent to threatening

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      Friedrich Kuhlau

      Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2

      The sequel to Bodendorff's highly acclaimed first album featuring Kuhlau's piano music

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      Hans Abrahamsen

      Schnee

      Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee is a gorgeous marvel which encapsulates winter and already a classic of the twenty-first century,

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      Jesper Koch

      Choirbook

      A lyrical suite of seven chapters for mixed choir a cappella. A meditation on nature – complex and yet simple

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      Friedrich Kuhlau

      Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1

      Marie-Luise Bodendorff reassesses Friedrich Kuhlau’s piano music with fresh, muscular performances of his music.

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      Steingrímur Rohloff

      Medea/Lysistrata

      Beautiful, sonorous settings of the myths of Medea and Lysistrata

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      Rued Langgaard

      Complete Works for Violin and Piano Vol. 3

      The last stage on a long journey, here is the third and final instalment of a warmly received Langgaard cycle undertaken by Gunvor Sihm and Berit Johansen Tange.

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      Peter Heise

      Drot og Marsk

      A magnificent opera about events which led to the murder of King Erik Clipping in 1286

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      Vagn Holmboe

      String Quartets Vol. 1

      Award-winning Nightingale String Quartet here begins a new exploration of one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe

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      Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann B. Erben, Johann V. Meder, Matthias Weckmann, Kaspar Förster, Andreas Kirchhoff, Nicolaus Bruhns

      Ich bin die Auferstehung – Buxtehude and His Copenhagen Connections

      A glimpse into the sacred solo-cantata and chamber music of from the Baltic region in the latter half of the 17th century

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      Carl Nielsen

      The Mother, Op. 41 – A Play in a Prologue and Seven Scenes

      World premiere recording of Carl Nielsen's complete incidental music for The Mother

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      Sunleif Rasmussen

      Andalag – Solo and Ensemble Works

      World premiere recordings that highlight Rasmussen’s deft harbouring of momentum and energy, his gift for transformative textures, and his closeness to the unique musical traditions and landscapes of the Islands themselves

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      Friedrich Kuhlau, Christian Frederik Barth, Niels W. Gade

      Concertos from 19th Century Denmark

      Here, principal players from the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra perform fine concertante works from two composers who are experiencing a renaissance and one who still languishes in obscurity.

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      Jesper Koch

      Dreamscapes

      In a constant and fruitful dialogue with the past – three concertos with a dreamlike quality

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      Karl Aage Rasmussen

      The Four Seasons After Vivaldi

      A conversation between past and present, between classical composition and new discoveries, between composers over time spans.

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      Niels Viggo Bentzon

      The Tempered Piano

      Per Salo here turns to Bentzon’s huge-scale piano cycle The Tempered Piano. Everywhere Bentzon broke new ground – ground far from the golden mean.

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      Friedrich Kuhlau

      Violin Sonatas Vol. 2

      Duo Åstrand/Salo follow-up their first installment of sonatas by Friedrich Kuhlau with a selection of some of the composer’s most convincing works for violin and piano

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      Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Samlede strygekvartetter vol. 1

      Nordic String Quartet here presents Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's first six quartets – never fusty, often entertaining, always adamant

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      Poul Ruders, Niels Rosing-Schow, Anders Koppel, Bent Sørensen, Karsten Fundal, Søren Nils Eichberg

      Værker for solobratsch

      Six leading Danish composers' exploration of the viola – the results are as touching and warm as they are fearsome and defiant

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      Poul Rovsing Olsen

      The Planets — music for voice and instruments

      Musical gems that embrace Rovsing Olsen's ambition to bring the music closer to the listener and his meeting with Oriental music

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      Rued Langgaard, Jacob Gade

      Symphonies 2 & 6

      With the tradition-conscious Vienna Philharmonic, Langgaard's music 'returns home' to a central European musical culture

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      Martin Ræhs, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Charles Dieupart

      Brorson – The Rare Treasure of Faith

      Baroque ensemble PHEMIUS CONSORT perform radiantly beautiful hymns by the most important representative of the Pietist movement, H.A. Brorson

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      Svend Erik Tarp

      Orchestral Works Vol. 1

      Aarhus Symphony Orchestra sheds new light on a selection of Svend Erik Tarp's early and unknown orchestral works

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      Bent Sørensen

      Pantomime · Rosenbad

      Bent Sørensen's beautiful piano trilogy completed by Katrine Gislinge, Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet

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      Niels W. Gade

      Erlkönigs Tochter (Elverskud/ The Elf-King's Daughter) (LP)

      Beautiful vinyl with Niels W. Gade's great succes, Elverskud, in the original instrumentation and sung in German for the very first time

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      Carl Nielsen, Niels W. Gade, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Vagn Holmboe, Line Tjørnhøj

      Crossing Borders

      Grammy-winning Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier continue to explore Danish vocal music – from Gade to Tjørnhøj

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      Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Scheidemann, Christian Geist, Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Adam Reincken, Franz Tunder, Matthias Weckmann, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

      IN DULCI JUBILO – Music for the Christmas season by Buxtehude and friends

      A stimulating addition to the traditional Christmas repertoire by the Grammy award-winning Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier

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      Per Nørgård

      The Organ Book · Canon

      Per Nørgård’s evocative Organ Book pieces and the large-scale organ work Canon

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