The Danish composer Peter Heise (1830-79) was a master of writing for singing voices. In his quartets and choral songs for male voices we meet Romanticism in its clearest form with songs about women, art, nature and his native country. The gentle, pure tone of the music is excellently handled by the male voices of the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and Choir and not least by the conductor Michael Schønwandt, who has cherished a lifelong love of Danish Golden Age music.

• Heise: Afsked med vinteren (Farewell to Winter)
• Heise: Borgjomfruen (The Castle Maiden)
• Heise: Bryllupssang (Wedding Song)
• Heise: Danmarks kæmpegrave (Denmark’s Giants’ Graves)
• Heise: De smukke (The Beauties)
• Heise: Den vilde rosenbusk (The wild Rose-Bush)
• Heise: Det er efterår (It’s Autumn)
• Heise: Det vågnende forår (The wakening Spring)
• Heise: For Danmark (For Denmark)
• Heise: Forar og sommer
• Heise: Gravsang af Shakespeares “Cymbeline” (Dirge from Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline”)
• Heise: I skoven (Text: Henrik Hertz)
• Heise: Introduktion og vals (Introduction and Waltz)
• Heise: Jylland (Jutland)
• Heise: Romance - 'Ved den dunkle brønd' ('At the dark Well')
• Heise: Sigøjnernes sang ved deres dronnings grav (The Gypsies’ Song at their Queen’s Grave)
• Heise: Til Bacchus (To Bacchus)
• Heise: Tonernes flugt (The Flight of the Notes)
• Heise: Tre katte (Three Cats)