Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch. Portraits by outstanding German photographer August Sander at Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk.
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Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu to lead the Gulbenkian Orchestra, starting 2023.

If you like Hugo Alfvén's Swedish Rhapsody 'Midsommarvaka', I recommend Emil Reesen's Danish Rhapsody 'Himmerland' (1926). Hear the composer's excellent recording and read the story behind the piece here: jenscornelius.dk/emil-reesens-h…

We are excited to share the news with you that the board of Dacapo Edition·S has chosen Eva Havshøj Ohrt as the new CEO, starting 1 January 2023 ✨
dacapo-records.dk/en/news/dacapo…

In triumph and to Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’, PM Mette Frederiksen has returned to Parliament to address supporters

Congratulations to Sweden and composer Karin Rehnqvist winning the Nordic Council Music Prize 2022🇸🇪

More about the winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize: norden.org/en/news/karin-…
#nrmusik Eivør

A rather sad location for the bronze bust of Italian conductor Egisto Tango (1873-1951), once a celebrated music director based in Copenhagen. #mementomori

Super exciting: The first book ever on the life and music of composer Vagn Holmboe.
multivers.dk/product/det-dy…

Worrying news: Berlin’s ⁦Staatsoper Berlin⁩ has cancelled the 80th birthday concert for ⁦⁦Daniel Barenboim⁩, scheduled for November 15.

Gustav Mahler getting directions!

Malmö Symphony Orchestra gets a new managing director: Adam Stadnicki from Denmark, a cellist and former deputy director of the Royal Danish Orchestra linkedin.com/posts/adamstad…

According to conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen, it's a sound world 'somewhere between André Rieu, Metallica and Beethoven' when Concerto Copenhagen performs the music of Lumbye on early 19th C. period instruments. Exciting project! coco.dk/da/concerts/co…

It's here - and it's huge! Langgaard's stormy Symphony no. 1, 'Cliffside Pastorals', played by the Berlin Philharmonic, who premiered the piece in 1913. Sakari Oramo leads the ascent to the top of the mountain!
(And there's a booklet essay by me).

So so excited to be the new Chief Conductor of the Aalborg Symphony!! Can't wait to get started with this wonderful orchestra soon!

The grave of Elvira Madigan (real name Hedvig Jensen). Killed by her partner, buried next to her. It's much sadder than Mozart's sublime Piano Concerto no. 21 (KV467) associated with her name.

Today is release day for our debut release on Deutsche Grammophon - @dgclassics!

Have a listen to the first album in our series of the symphonies by Carl Nielsen, recorded in @drkoncerthuset with our chief conductor Fabio Luisi:

🎧 dgt.link/Nielsen-Sympho…

Tonight: Musica Ficta and Camerata Øresund perform a reconstructed baroque cantata, The Castle Feud, by Reinhard Keiser - in these spectacular surroundings at Frederiksborg Castle Chapel
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A true original: The composer Jens Vilhelm Pedersen, AKA Fuzzy, has died at the age of 83. A pupil of Per Nørgård, he was probably the only avant-garde composer loved by everyone, working also in jazz, comedy, TV and film. An unforgettable, funny man.
politiken.dk/kultur/art9029…

Sweden’s Royal Academy of Music excludes Valery Gergiev pizzicato.lu/swedens-royal-…

Sibelius' amazing The Tempest in a new, complete recording by The Royal Danish Orchestra, who premiered the music in Copenhagen 1925.
(NB: First symphonic release by this orchestra in 20 (twenty!) years) naxosdirect.se/items/the-temp…