ΕΤΑΙΡΙΑ: Dacapo
ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΗΣ: Sakari Oramo
ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΙΑ: CD
ΣΥΝΘΕΤΗΣ: Rued Immanuel Langgaard

Κωδικός: 747313165360

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Langgaard: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6

Anu Komsi (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo

Rued Langgaard (1893–1952) was the major Danish late-Romantic composer who did not gain recognition in his mother country. His greatest successes took place in Germany and Austria, where his Symphonies Nos. 2 and 6 were met with considerable acclaim. Back home, he never received that kind of backing. He died a careworn and despairing individual. On this recording with one of the world's leading orchestras, the tradition-conscious Vienna Philharmonic, one is therefore able to hear Langgaard's music 'return home' to a central European musical culture. At the same time things were going swimmingly for his colleague Jacob Gade (1879–1963) whose Tango Jalousie has become the absolutely most frequently played piece of Danish music for almost a century.

November 2018

Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic [take] on two contrasted works by Rued Langgaard that illuminate this composer in all his stylistic diversity and recklessness...Such an idiom should be in this orchestra’s blood and the VPO do not disappoint – whether in the lyrically effulgent initial movement, with its discreetly modified sonata form, or the lithe finale...A mandatory purchase for its interpretative insights, committed playing and tangibly realistic sound.

October 2018

Breaking news: Oramo’s new recording is one of the best things I’ve heard all year. Of his fillers, the gentle meditation Upaagtede Morgenstjerner (Unnoticed Morning Stars) is most welcome. First, it reminded me what a passionate, powerful and endearingly quixotic talent Langgaard was, and how much joy there is in his work. Second, it’s demonstrated that, in their various ways, all the albums do justice to these underrated symphonies. And third, it’s highlighted the sheer consistency and musical value of that Dausgaard box. Two fine symphonies, very well played and recorded; a cheer-raising, hat-tossing event for all Langgaardians.

28th September 2018

It’s a joy to find the Vienna Philharmonic, under Sakari Oramo, lending their plushness to his Second Symphony (finished in 1914), one of those endearingly overstuffed affairs bursting with extra horns; a soprano soloist too.