This splendid album, The Golden Age of Danish Partsongs, should be an obvious acquisition for any listener who enjoys Romantic choral music. It’s been released by the Danish Dacapo label and is performed by Ars Nova Copenhagen under the direction of eminent choral conductor, Paul...

Of currently available titles, this release makes three on the Dacapo label which include music of Poul Rovsing Olsen. It is the first of his orchestral oeuvre, which is considered his finest area of output. There are three significant works here, Olsen’s Variations Symphoniques, Op....

This Dacapo CD presents the world premiere recording of symphonies nos. 1 and 2 by Danish-German composer Søren Nils Eichberg performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Poppen. A recipient of first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in...

Making their debut appearance on CD is the Arild Quartet with this Dacapo disc of music for string quartet by two Danish composers, C.F.E. Horneman and Asger Hamerik. The Arild is made up of musicians holding important positions with the Royal Danish Orchestra and the Odense Symphony...

The excellent Vagn Holmboe series from Dacapo continues with this superb recording of three concertos. Performances are by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dima Slobodeniouk with soloists Erik Heide and Lars Anders Tomter, violin and viola respectively. By my count,...

This Dacapo CD contains three works by Danish composer Erik Norby (1936-2007). The Rainbow Snake (1975) is a symphonic poem inspired by an Amerindian legend that describes the origin of the rainbow. Rilke-Lieder (1985) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra is a setting of three songs based upon...