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New release in March 2023: Victor Schiøler, Vol. 6 |
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His activities as a soloist and his increasingly comprehensive work as a teacher were cen- tral to his final years from about 1950 until his death in 1967. Here I am thinking not only of his teaching as a professor at the conserva- toire, but even more of his efforts to stimulate and encourage interest in classical music. One of his tools was television. TV was com- pletely new. Many people were interested in it, and in Denmark only one channel was available. This was Danmarks Radio, which only transmitted a few hours daily. It opened up a unique opportunity for Schiøler to gain access to “the general public” in this way. There were many broadcasts which had the title “About the Piano” in common. In this se- ries the sound track of Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy has already been included in Vol 4. Besides the music, viewers could also hear Schiøler’s eloquent, inspiring and appealing introductions. Volume 6 also includes an example from these broadcasts. Schiøler introduces and talks about Saint-Saëns’ Variations for two pianos on a theme of Beethoven. The theme is the trio from the minuet in the Sonata in E- flat, op. 31 no. 3. The variations make consi- derable demands on the two pianists, who constantly cast little bits of the theme to each other which they then have to grab in such a way that it never affects the pulse and conti- nuity of the music. It demands perfect synch- ronization between the two players, here Schiøler and his pupil Peter Westenholz (1937 – 2008). And it is a joy to listen to them playing together! The recording was made in Schiøler’s own home on his two Hornung og Møller concert grands. |
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New release in February 2023: Mathias Hedegaard, Tenor / Tove Lønskov, Piano
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The Danish tenor Mathias Hedegaard has appeared with The Royal Danish Opera, The Danish National Opera, Gothenburg Opera, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Malmö Opera, New Belgrade Opera and The Funen Opera. His roles include Orfeo (Monteverdi), Acis in Acis and Galatea, Tamino in The Magic Flute, Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Candide (Bernstein) and Leander in Carl Nielsenʼs Maskarade. With his strong stage charisma, he has created roles in several world premieres by Scandinavian composers. Mathias Hedegaard is a sought after concert singer and his interpretation of the Evangelist in Bachʼs Passions has won international recognition. Mathias Hedegaard is the finest interpreter of Danish Art Songs of his generation. In 2021 Mathias Hedegaard and Tove Lønskov won the Danish Broadcasting Corporation P2-Award as “Best Classical Album of the Year” for the CD-recording of Schuberts Winterreise released on Danacord. |
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New release in February 2023: John Damgaard:
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As a young student I (John Damgaard) had the pleasure to play Francis Poulenc’s Sextet for Nadia Boulanger. Feeling uneasy with some of the more or less banal themes I asked for her help. She said that Poulenc had a strong sense of humor, but always expressed it in an extremely serious way – which made it even more humorous. And you had to treat his music in the same manner. Always serious. |
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New release in February 2023: Duo Bols and Bjørkøe: Songs by Clara Schumann and Lili Boulanger |
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The Duo Bols and Bjørkøe have their fifth anniversary in 2022. They met each other at Holmen's Church in Copenhagen where they were both soloists at a Niels W. Gade concert celebration that was broadcast on the Danish National Radio. Since then, the duo has played multiple concerts throughout Denmark. In 2020, the Roskilde Music Association encouraged the duo to perform a program consisting only of female composers, a program that was also recorded for the Danish National Radio. This program became the basis for the repertoire on this CD. The duo most recently performed a concert for Hjørring Music Association with previously unknown songs by the Danish composer Nancy Dalberg, a concert which was also broadcast on the Danish National Radio. The duo is already planning to record these songs in the near future. |
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New release in January 2023: Emil Reesen as conductor |
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The composer and conductor Emil Reesen (1887-1964) was the remarkable Jack-of-all-trades of Danish music who mastered all genres and styles – the only thing that mattered to him was that the quality of the music was good. His career began in the world of the theatre, where he played the piano in music theatres in Copenhagen and as time went on also began to conduct, arrange and compose music for various operettas and revues. And he was really good at this. During the years around the First World War Reesen came to the conclusion that he was the best conductor in town despite not having studied at the conservatoire. The decisive thing was his considerable innate talent. |
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New release in December 2022: Musique lyrique pour cor et pianoClaudio Flückiger, Horn and Galya Kolarova, Piano |
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"Although the horn has
some obstacles to
overcome, [...] nature
seems to have intended it
by and large for singing;
moreover, the horn player
can draw the best lessons
from the school of a good
singer. |
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New release in December 2022: Oleg Marshev - Ravel, Vol. 2 |
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In Ravel's output, themes
of Classical order and
choreographic gesture
run parallel to a sensibility
in touch with the macabre
and grotesque. All these
aspects of his music
are illustrated by the
second volume of Oleg
Marshev’s Ravel survey,
from the elegance
of the Sonatine to the
vertiginous fantasy of
Gaspard de la Nuit. |
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New release in December 2022: Svend S. Schultz: Efterklange |
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Svend Simon Schultz (1913-1998)
is one of the most remarkable
Danish composers and as a
conductor he made a significant
contribution to Danish songs, not
least during his 30 years as head
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New release in December 2022: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy, Volume 7 |
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Three major additions to the Grøndahl
discography, newly recovered from the
archives of Danish radio, remastered from
the original tapes and released here for
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New release in November 2022: J.P.E. Hartmann: Piano WorksThomas Trondhjem |
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Volume 4 of the complete piano
music by the leading Danish
Romantic composer Hartmann.
He was born 1805 and lived
nearly to be 100 years. During his
time he was the most influential
composer in Denmark and wrote
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New release in November 2022: Fanny Mendelssohn - Das Jahr (12 Charakterstücke für Klavier)Christina Bjørkøe |
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1805-1847 were a short time to live for the very talented sister of Felix. History aimed the spotlight on the brother, not without justice, for he was a musical genious and to many an icon. His sister, Fanny, who later married and took the last name Hensel, often played four-hand with brother Felix, she was a fine singer and music came as natural to her as to her brother. Sadly time only allowed her too few compositions, but what we have today should be much more appreciated. The 12 piano pieces, each for every month of the year surely could have been composed by Felix and they lack nothing in brilliance, musicality and pianistic virtuosity. Leading Danish pianist Christina Bjørkøe gives a splendid performance. |
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New release in November 2022: Anders Koppel: Chamber Music |
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Since the 1960s the Danish composer and musician Anders Koppel, born in 1947, has being developing his musical creativity in every conceivable way, ranging from jazz, rock, Balkan music to chamber works, ballet music, film music and more than 40 solo concertos for every conceivable instrument. He was born into a musical family as a son of the pianist and composer Herman D. Koppel (1908-1998), one of the leading figures in Danish music in the 20th century. All Herman D. Koppel’s four children became prominent musicians, and in the two following generations great new talents have still been emerging from the artistic Koppel family. Anders Koppel has with considerable energy preserved the luxuriance which was in the air, when in the 1960s he began to unfurl his life a musician. Since the 1990s he has worked not least on compositions in classical forms, but without giving up his many concerts improvising music of all kinds played on his particularly favourite instrument, a Hammond B3 organ. Koppel’s imagination and fecundity of ideas give his music a character of joie de vivre, curiosity and playfulness. Combined with his profound experience with written-down music it gives a wonderful sparkle to his works in classical forms which are unmistakably founded on the improviser’s sharp ears for fertile ideas and the ability to create gripping music. |
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New release in October 2022: Kristian Riisager - A Testament to Hope |
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Kristian Riisager (b. 1996) is educated at Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where he is still studying. In recent years, Kristian has played a number of solo and chamber music concerts around Denmark, just as he has played concerts in Sweden, Germany, Lithuania and Georgia. He has won prizes at several Steinway Festival and Music Without Limits in Lithuania. Kristian Riisager has also made a name for himself as a lied accompanist, and together with soprano Louise McClelland Jacobsen he won 1st prize in the Rued Langgaard Competition. As part of the prize they played in the 2021 opening concert of the Rued Langgaard Festival in Ribe. Kristian has received support from several foundations. Among other things, he has received a Steinway Grand Piano for use during his studies from the Augustinus Foundation. This CD is Kristian Riisager’s debut album. |
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New release in October 2022: Torben Enghoff - For all ages |
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The contents of this CD present the piano pieces in the music book “For all Ages”, published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen. I am totally self-taught and do not compose according to rules. I am only using my ears. Little ideas come to me constantly and if I am lucky to have pencil and music paper at hand, I just write it down. After that I turn to all the other part of the work. Many of the pieces in this collection are obviously simple. There is a reason for that: I hardly can play the piano. But that doesn't prevent me from sitting sit at a keyboard and figure out what is practically possible with the two hands. I thought to myself: If I can write something that I myself, although with a lot of trouble, can play—it might be not too bad for the student who is slightly experienced. Another thing: In a way it is just as difficult to write something simple as to write something complicated. You have to decide everytone rather carefully. Simplicity is a demanding challenge. If I were asked to mention all the music that I have have been enthusiastic about through my life—you would see an extremely long list of names from jazz and from classical music. |
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New release in September 2022: Hanne Tofte Jespersen: Times of Unrest |
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In 2018, Aksel Nielsen, cellist and chairman of the Chamber music society BRAGE in Randers, started a dialogue with composer Hanne Tofte Jespersen about a new string quartet. He wished to commission her to write a quartet for BRAGE. They both liked the idea of the new work to be composed for a historical theme which would also be relevant for a present audience, incl. youth. They soon agreed on a context of a late Haydn quartet from the 1790s and Benjamin Britten's 1. string quartet from 1941. BRAGE invited Nordic String Quartet to take up the task and involved four other chamber music societies in the project. Neither Aksel nor Hanne had imagined how relevant it would prove to call the project TIMES OF UNREST. But she completed her quartet in spring 2020 when Covid- 19 had caused pandemia and lockdown of any cultural event. The first performances in Nov. 2020 took place just before the next corona lockdown. Prior to concerts, workshops are organised with high school music students and their teachers meeting the composer and one of the musicians. By the time of recording and release of this album, there is once more a most unfortunate war on the European continent, not to mention the climate related Times of Unrest all over the good Planet Earth. The music works of this project express both unrest, threat, hope and even vision of peace. |
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New release in August 2022: John Frandsen - Selected early Recordings |
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For three decades the principal conductor of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, John Frandsen, also brought flexible tempi, broad phrasing and rich orchestral sonorities to concert repertoire. This newly remastered compilation brings together 1950s recordings made for Columbia, Odeon and Philips, including Danish classics such as Gade's Echoes of Ossian and an inspired account of Brahms's Fourth Symphony. |
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New release in August 2022: Rarieties of Piano Music at the Schloss vor Husum 2022 |
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The highly acclaimed Piano Festival Founded in 1987 the annual Rarities of Piano Music Festival in the North German town of Husum is a major event. Danacord is proud to release the recording from the extra festival from June 3-5, 2022. Due to Covid-19 the planned 2020 festival had to cancelled and an extra short three day festival came in June this year. As a theme the music was all around Alkan. Listen to Marc-André Hamelin, Artur Pizzaro, Claire Hammond and other fine pianists performing rare piano music. All lovers of piano music will want this release, not only because of the first class pianism from truly outstanding performers, but also because the quality of the often unknown and rare mostly romantic piano music is of such invaluable substance. Critics greated all the previus CD releases with enthusiasm. Note! ALL the previous years from 1987 are still in stock and are not to be missed! |
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New release in July 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 14 |
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Previously unpublished broadcasts of 20th-century music, not only by figures closely associated with Thomas Jensen such as Carl Nielsen and Niels Viggo Bentzon, but also Ole Schmidt and Gunnar Berg, who wrote outside the Danish mainstream. Jensen's catholic taste and sympathy with diverse strands in European modernism is attested by his careful shaping of masterpiece by Henze, Honegger and Prokofiev. |
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New release in July 2022: Tonny Landy: Danish Songs |
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The great Danish tenor As he turns 85 years old, Danish tenor Tonny Landy is still among the finest singers of his generation. This release features immaculate performances of Danish songs which Tonny Landy recorded for the Danish branch of RCA between 1966 and 1969. This is the first CD release of these truly unique and much sought-after recordings. Tonny Landy selected 25 beautiful Danish songs and with his brilliant tenor voice he is on the level of the great Aksel Schiøtz. All the songs in this new release features a short English synopsis.All First CD Releases! |
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New release in May 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 13 |
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The First and Fourth symphonies of Jean Sibelius, in previously unpublished live recordings from the early 1960s, are major additions to the recorded legacy of Thomas Jensen. |
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New release in May 2022: Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum from the 2021 Festival |
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The highly acclaimed Piano Festival Founded in 1987 the annual Rarities of Piano Music Festival in the North German town of Husum is a major event. Danacord is proud to release the recording from the Festival in 2021 featuring again rare piano music played by some of the leading pianists of today. Among the highlights you will find the brilliant Zlata Chochiewa in Liszt and early Rachmaninov. Also the truly remarkable pianist Simon Callaghan in rare Holbrooke. Many of the works are first CD recordings like the Langgaard work played by founder Peter Froundjian and, as usual, all are unedited live performances. All lovers of piano music will want this release, not only because of the first class pianism from truly outstanding performers, but also because the quality of the often unknown and rare mostly romantic piano music is of such invaluable substance. Critics greated all the previus CD releases with enthusiasm. Note! ALL the previous years from 1987 are still in stock and are not to be missed! |
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New release in May 2022: Tanja Zapolski: Timeless |
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A piano CD to treasure Danish female pianist Tanja Zapolski found the music she always held close to her heart. It is music to treasure, a timeless experience. A CD for the moments of beauty and calm, where everything around simply is timeless. |
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New release in May 2022: Gunnar Johansen - Piano Works |
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The great Danish pianist First time on CD new recordings of piano works of Danish-American pianist-composer Gunnar Johansen, best known as a pianist but also a prolific composer for his instrument, including 2 of Johansen's piano sonatas, and shorter pieces from 1928 to 1977. Young American pianist Solon Pierce is the leading authority on the music of Gunnar Johansen and knew the composer well. His extensive booklet notes with many rare photos only enhances the importance of this CD. Most are First Releases! |
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New release in April 2022: Emil Hartmann: Scandinavian Folk Music, Opus 30 / Cathrine Penderup |
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First recording of the complete Danish Late Romantic Piano Music by Emil Hartmann Danish pianist Cathrine Penderup herself made a detective work locating all the solo piano works plus several unpublished manuscripts by the Danish late romantic composer Emil Hartmann. The music is very well constructed for the piano and is full of beautiful tunes and harmonies. Volume 1 had all the original works for solo piano and in this final volume 2 is the first recording of the Scandinavian Folk Music, Op. 30, a collection of danses and melodies arranged for solo piano. A release not to be missed. |
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New release in April 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 11 |
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| A pair of great Danish pianists and celebrated violinists contribute to a wide-ranging programme, which demonstrates Thomas Jensen’s versatility and command of his orchestras in both pillars of the repertoire by Grieg and Tchaikovsky, and a stirring but unfamiliar piano-concerto movement by the Dane August Winding. Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegelis new to the Jensen discography: a stunning live performance from 1952, newly remastered from the original tapes. | |||
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New release in March 2022: Oleg Marshev plays Brahms |
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Returing to the record studio a pianistic Titan.
A trio of thunderous roars from a young keyboard lion: Johannes Brahms was still in his teens when he composed this standalone Scherzo and pair of sonatas. With these pieces, he won Schumann’s lifelong friendship and support. Two of the sonata movements are inspired by songs of love and loneliness, but every bar here is vintage Brahms, even as the product of his youth. ‘Marshev is a phenomenon’ BBC Music Magazine |
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New release in March 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 10 |
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| As a friend and supporter of many Danish composers in the middle of the last century, Thomas Jensen brought unrivalled energy and conviction to their music. The five composers presented here engage in a dialogue between tradition and modernity which is personal to each of them, from the generous Romanticism of Siegfried Salomon to the biting humour of Niels Viggo Bentzon, and including the less familiar names of Franz Syberg and Leif Thybo. Several first-ever releases feature within new remasterings of live broadcasts and studio recordings made between 1949 and 1962. | |||
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New release in February 2022: Songs by Thomas Clausen |
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| The Danish composer, pianist and leading jazz improvisator Thomas Clausen has composed some of the most intimate and tender songs in the memory of his wife and mother to his soprano daughter Nina Clausen and the result is this new CD where they together perform a selection of songs. A CD to remember. | |||
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New release in February 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 9 |
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| A feast of popular but now littleknown Danish repertoire, mostly given in live broadcast concerts by Thomas Jensen and the DRSO, newly remastered and issued here for thefirst time. A Hans Christian Andersen memorial concert casts orchestral enchantment on CD 1, while extracts from two portrait concerts on CD 2 revive the distinctively Danish idioms of Hamerik and Sandby. | |||
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New release in February 2022: Oleg Marshev plays Ravel, Vol. 1 |
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| The return of a Titan! Returing to the record studio a pianistic Titan. The first volume of Oleg Marshev's new Ravel survey draws together threads of pianistic innovation and Spanish influence from the composer's earliest surviving work through to the groundbreaking cycle of Miroirs published in 1905. Rarities include the first-ever piano recording of one of the fugues written by Ravel in his attempts to win the Prix de Rome. | |||
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New release in January 2022: John Damgaard plays Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms |
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| As he turns 80 years old, Danish pianist John Damgaard is still going strong. This release features immaculate performances of pieces by three composers close to his heart: Late Beethoven and Chopin sonatas are paired with a truly strong-willed version of the Brahms Handel Variations. The release includes Damgaard’s informative booklet notes that point out new and intriguing sides to the pianistic Handel variations. A release for all lovers of great piano playing. All First Releases! | |||
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New release in January 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 8 |
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| The result of the turbulent 1950s in Denmark's second largest city, Aarhus, was the foundation of a symphony orchestra, spearheaded and forcefully directed by conductor Thomas Jensen. His pioneering early Danish TONO recordings, comprising popular orchestral music, were a triumph and were re-released even in the US by the Mercury label. They are all here, collected together for the first time. In frustration, Jensen left Aarhus for a new job as head of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, however he returned to conduct two concerts which are here presented for the first time. | |||
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New release in December 2021: J.P.E. Hartmann - Piano Works, Vol. 3 |
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| Danish composer J.P.E. Hartmann was the leading romantic Danish composer who influenced generations of Danish composers, not least Niels W. Gade and the son Emil Hartmann. He was a prolific composer and composed in all genres. His extensive music for piano is sadly too little known outside Denmark, but with its romantic tone, melodic charme and harmonies known from Schumann and Mendelssohn it will come as a pleasant surprise to all lovers of romantic piano music. Danish pianist Thomas Trondhjem is here presenting the third CD of a complete recording of all the works for solo piano by J.P.E. Hartmann. The first two volumes received very positive comments from many critics. | |||
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New release in November 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 7 |
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| A magical evening at the Tivoli Gardens! This new compilation features live and studio recordings of light orchestral waltzes and polkas, including the greatest hits of the Danish ‘Waltz King’, HC Lumbye. Several studio recordings from the 1940s receive their first release on CD. CD2 features a previously unpublished live concert broadcast direct from the Tivoli Gardens, where the people of Copenhagen have enjoyed relaxation and entertainment ever since 1843. Thomas Jensen directs the Tivoli orchestra with the same authority he brought to his classic recordings of Nielsen and Sibelius. | |||
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New release in October 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 6 |
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| Thomas Jensen in his element: a trio of classic Nielsen recordings, plus a first-time release for broadcast performances of Sibelius's Third Symphony and two pivotal works by Jensen's countryman and contemporary, Niels Viggo Bentzon. Newly remastered direct from the original tapes, these live recordings find Jensen on fiery form, giving incisive interpretations well suited to the formal innovations of these masterpieces of Danish and Finnish modernism. | |||
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New release in October 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 5 |
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| All-new remasterings of live and previously unissued recordings: a Mendelssohn concert from 1962 demonstrates Thomas Jensen’s undimmed power to galvanize an orchestra towards the end of his life. From his very last concert, given a fortnight before his death in 1963, works by Handel and Mozart find him (and pianist Annie Fischer) on fluent, sparkling form. Novelettes by ‘the Danish Mendelssohn’ Niels W. Gade make a neat coupling, and the set closes with the Dvor•ák overture which launched the DRSO on the international scene. Another landmark album in the wider appreciation of a conductor whose legacy has been too narrowly restricted to the music of his homeland. | |||
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New release in September 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 4 |
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| More interesting first releases with the Danish conductor Thomas Jensen this time featuring the first two Carl Nielsen symphonies and orchestra music by Danish composers who were close to Nielsen. | |||
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New release in August 2021: Ida Riegels: Cello Stories |
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| Young Danish female composer, winner of the Danish Music Award "Firebrand of the Year" and with a strong musical style expressed by her own hand build cello. A journey into the world of poetry and nature. | |||
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New release in August 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 3 |
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| Thomas Jensen Legacy has reached volume 3, where the music of Brahms is heard on CD for the first time. A fantastic 4th symphony and soprano Agnes Giebel in Ein Deutsches Requiem. Violinist Endre Wolf gives a brilliant performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto. | |||
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New release in July 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 2 |
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| Danacord's tribute to the recorded legacy of Thomas Jensen continues with a unique compilation of 20th-century masterpieces in both live and studio performances. Available for the first time in any format. Jensen's final concert appearance with the DRSO, in a noble account of Shostakovich's heroic Fifth Symphony, recorded just a fortnight before his death. CD2 demonstrates Jensen's mastery of a wide range of contemporary repertoire in a Paris concert from 1962. | |||
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New release in June 2021: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Volume 1 |
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| Having played the cello in several of the symphonies under the composer's baton, Thomas Jensen brought a definitive combination of passion and authority to the music of Jean Sibelius. To launch an extensive series dedicated to Jensen's artistry, Danacord presents a new compilation of major works by the Finnish composer in live and studio recordings, including CD premieres for these broadcast performances of the Second and Seventh symphonies. | |||
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New release in May 2021: The Art of Emil Reesen - Orchestral Works |
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| An icon in Danish music. Composer, arranger, conductor, entertainer: Emil Reesen (1887-1964) cut a dash through Danish 20th-century music. His own pieces were always stylishly crafted for the occasion, whether to commemorate a Polar explorer or celebrate a famous castrato. Danacord's wide-ranging tribute includes many live and broadcast recordings never previously issued. | |||
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New release in April 2021: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy
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| Friedrich Kuhlau's Lulu is the Danish "Magic Flute". Long unavailable on record, this foundational work in the repertoire of Danish comic opera can be enjoyed once again in a historic broadcast performance from 1956. Remastered from original radio tapes and never previously issued, this performance represents the Danish singspiel tradition at its most delightful. Five bonus tracks pay testament to Launy Grøndahl's sympathetic partnerships with the finest Danish singers of his day. Volume 7 will have concerto by Beethoven and symphony by Schubert, scheduled for late 2021 Summer release. | |||
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New release in March 2021: An Aldeburgh Tribute toErling Blöndal Bengtsson |
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| The final release in the Danacord series A Tribute To Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, two live performances from the Benjamin Britten Aldeburgh Festival, never before released in any format. Only known recording of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson. A major discovery! | |||
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New release in March 2021: Carl Nielsen and George Enescu - SonatasMihaela Oprea |
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| Two composers who loved the violin and played it to a high standard. Danish Carl Nielsen and Romanian George Enescu both wrote original works for violin and piano and three of them are here in this new release featuring on the leading Danish violinists Mihaela Oprea. A substantial new duo release. | |||
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New release in March 2021: The Gramophone ShopCelebrity Series |
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| The Gramophone Shop Celebrity series: a first transfer to CD for five rare and exciting sets of records from the 78 era, made in the late 1940s for an enterprising record dealer in New York by Danish pioneers of early music performance. Finn Viderø's earliest recordings, on beautifully preserved Danish organs, make a substantial and exclusive bonus. Featuring long lost mezzo Lorri Lail. | |||
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New release in March 2021: Victor Bendix - Music for PianoIsabel Carlander, Piano |
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| The first ever complete recording of the printed piano music by the leading Danish romantic composer Victor Bendix. He was admired by Liszt and a highly regarded person in Danish musical life. The brilliant and virtuosic piano music is played by the critically acclaimed Danish pianist Isabel Carlander. | |||
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New release in January 2021: J.P.E. Hartmann - Piano Works, Vol. 2Thomas Trondhjem, Piano |
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| The second volume featuring world premiere recordings of piano music by the great Danish romantic composer J.P.E. Hartmann. Again pianist Thomas Trondhjem surprises us with unknown piano music in the style of Mendelssohn and Schumann, however with a beautiful Nordic tone. | |||
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New release in January 2021: Nordic Songs and RomancesHelge Slaatto, Violin - Anne Mette Stæhr, Piano |
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| First ever recording of two leading composers works for violin and piano plus a range of beautiful Scandinavian songs and romances played on violin. Full texts and translations of all the poems are included. A wonderful calm and musically rewarding release. | |||
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New release in January 2021: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy
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| Four symphonies and two suites by late-Romantic Danish composers and contemporaries of Carl Nielsen, led with passion and authority by Launy Grøndahl in studio recordings made in the twilight of his distinguished career. Noble Classical ideals and typically Danish energy mark out the Sinfonia Svastika of Louis Glass and Second Symphony by Rudolf Simonsen. The neoclassical elegance of P.S. Rung-Keller's suite contrasts with the boisterous character of Johannes Andersen's example. Hakon Børresen's Second Symphony is a buoyant sea-scape, while Herman Sandby's Fourth is coloured by the influence of Delius and Grainger. | |||
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New release in December: SchnittkeCarl-Oscar Østerlind, Cello - Emil Gryesten Piano |
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| First ever release of rare recordings from the Finnish Radio with the greates Danish woman pianist France Ellegaard (1913-1999). Concertos by Selim Palmgren and sonatas with the outstanding violinist Anja Ignatius. An extraordinary piano document! | |||
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New release in November: Works by DebussyMessiaen Quartet Copenhagen |
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| The critically acclaimed Copenhagen Quartet with a selection of rare chamber music by Debussy. The Sonatas for Violin and for Cello plus never before arrangements of an orchestral work will create great interest among all the lovers of the French master composer. | |||
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New release in November: The Great Danish Pianist France Ellegaard |
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| First ever release of rare recordings from the Finnish Radio with the greates Danish woman pianist France Ellegaard (1913-1999). Concertos by Selim Palmgren and sonatas with the outstanding violinist Anja Ignatius. An extraordinary piano document! | |||
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New release in October: Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms - Cello WorksNils Sylvest, Cello and Mimi Birkelund, Piano |
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| Nils Sylvest was until recently the leading cellist of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, being the only one in the group playing the cello with his left hand. In his new recording of the complete works for cello and piano by Schumann plus the first Brahms sonata he is partnered by the eminent pianist Mimi Birkelund. | |||
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New release in October: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy
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| The first (almost) complete recording of Nielsen’s comic masterpiece, plus a previously unreleased fairy-tale rarity, under the inspirational baton of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s founder-conductor. Launy Grøndahl knew both Carl Nielsen and Knud Jeppesen personally: he conducted their music with unrivalled sympathy and passion. His 1954 recording of Maskarade is full of native wit and simple joys, while Aesop’s fable of The Eagle and the Beetle is dramatized as a typically Danish morality-tale of revenge on the high and mighty. Volume 5 is in preparation for a February 2021 release and will have Grøndahl conducting 4 Danish symphonies and two orchestral suites. | |||
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New release in October: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy
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| Studio and live broadcast recordings, never previously issued and newly remastered from the original tapes, of Romantic and 20thcentury Danish music. Highlights include an atmospheric tone-poem by Gade, ballet and concert scores based on fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen, an overture to celebrate the end of the nazi occupation of Denmark and a colourful set of orchestral variations based on Danish radio´s theme tune. The performances bear witness to the high technical standard of the DRSO´s playing, nearly 70 years ago, as well as to the tireless advocacy of Launy Grøndahl for the music of his own country. | |||
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New release in September: ElegyFlemish Radio Choir / Bo Holten |
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| Danish composer and conductor has collected a series of songs and musical pieces depicting the elegiac mood. Sung by the leading Flemish Choir and with solo cello interludes and connecting bridges between each work this is one of the most satisfying choral releases around. | |||
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New release in August: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy
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| The highly acclaimed series featuring the conductor Launy Grøndahl in this second volume presents his own compositions, all released for the first time. A major contribution to Danish Music and a fantastic chance to hear the composer conducting his own works. | |||
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New release in August: Rarieties of Piano Music at
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| The annual Rarities of Piano Music at the German castle in the town of Husum began in 1987 and is today one of the leading piano festivals. Every year Danacord releases a CD featuring highlights from the festival. This is the 33rd release. All previous releases are in stock. | |||
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New release in July: The Launy Grøndahl Legacy
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| A new series featuring the remarkable Danish conductor Launy Grøndahl who was closely working with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra since its very beginning until his last concert in 1956. He was the leading authority on Carl Nielsen and his performance of the 2nd and 4th Symphonies are legendary. | |||
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New release in June: Brahms - Sonatas for cello and pianoCarl-Oscar Østerlind, Cello - Emil Gryesten Piano |
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| An exiting new recording featuring the talented young Danish cellist Carl-Oscar Østerlind in a rare recording of the Brahms Clarinet Sonata arranged for cello and piano. Østerlind is accompanied by the young virtuoso Emil Gryesten. Chamber music at its best. | |||
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New release in June: J.P.E. Hartmann: Piano WorksThomas Trondhjem, piano |
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| First volume in the World Premiere Recording of the lovely romantic Danish piano music by J.P.E. Hartmann. Music in the style of Schumann and Mendelssohn with charming melodies and beautiful harmonies. More than 30 miniature gems which will delight all lovers of romantic piano music. | |||
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New release in June: The Great Danish Pianist Victor Schiøler, Vol. 5(2 CD for the price of 1) |
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| Two live piano concerto performances never before releases featuring the greatest Danish pianist ever, Victor Schiøler. Also for the first time on CD two piano trios where Schiøler is the master musician playing with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson. Yet another exiting release in the Victor Schiøler Series. | |||
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New release in March: A European Tribute to Erling Blöndal Bengtsson(2 CD for the price of 1) |
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| Danacord continues its tribute to the Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson with previously unpublished recordings from the archives of the BBC and German radio. There is cello music dedicated to Bengtsson’s mentor Piatigorsky and chamber music by Mozart and Offenbach with fellow friends and colleagues. His stylishness, distinctive timbre and subtle colours, as well as his trademark impeccable intonation, may be enjoyed in full. | |||
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New release in February: The Great Danish Pianist Victor Schiøler, Vol. 4(2 CD for the price of 1) |
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| He was undoubtedly the greatest Danish pianist ever. His fame was legendary and he made some of the most impressive recordings for the Danish HMV and TONO label together with a giving concerts all over the world. His recorded legacy is among the most fascinating and we are proud to give you the 4th volume with never before published live recordings of Palmgren and Schubert. | |||
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New release in February: Moritz Moszkowski - Piano WorksEtsuko Hirose, Piano |
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| The great pianist Paderewski said: “After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique.” Presented here on this album, Etsuko Hirose showcases the wide range of the piano music by an extraordinary composer who was a star in his lifetime, but now in need of a romantic revival. | |||
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New release in January: Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 4Cecile Licad, Piano |
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| The Anthology of American Piano Music is designed to show the stylistic breadth, high musical quality and great originality of the best American piano works. While the preceding three volumes presented works for solo piano by multiple composers related to one theme (Vol. 1, "American First Sonatas"; Vol. 2, "Music of the Night - American Nocturnes"; Vol. 3, "American Landscapes"), Vol. 4 is dedicated to one composer, presenting the complete works for piano and orchestra by George Gershwin. Vol. 5, a theme CD focusing on "American Dances", is currently in preparation. | |||
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New release in January: Ignaz Friedman - Complete recordings 1923-1941(6 CD for the price of 3) |
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| The first-ever complete LP collection of Ignaz Friedman's recordings has been much sought after by collectors and admired by critics since its original LP release in 1985. Newly remastered for its first CD release, this set celebrates the artistry of a uniquely gifted musician. The 'Moonlight' Sonata, Chopin mazurkas and Songs without Words of Mendelssohn are classics of the gramophone, which now speak to a new generation of listeners more clearly than ever before. | |||
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New release in February 2022: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 9 |
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| A feast of popular but now littleknown Danish repertoire, mostly given in live broadcast concerts by Thomas Jensen and the DRSO, newly remastered and issued here for the first time. A Hans Christian Andersen memorial concert casts orchestral enchantment on CD 1, while extracts from two portrait concerts on CD 2 revive the distinctively Danish idioms of Hamerik and Sandby. | |||
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