DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Founded in 1925, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR is regarded as Denmark’s leading symphony orchestra. It has performed under many of the 20th century’s greatest conductors, including Nicolai Malko, Bruno Walter, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, Rafael Kubelik and Daniel Barenboim, and has collaborated with composers as soloists and conductors such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Boulez, Lutosławski, Stockhausen and Henze.

Regular conductors have included Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and now include Yuri Temirkanov as Principal Guest Conductor, Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Michael Gielen and Marek Janowski. Chief Conductors have been Herbert Blomstedt (1967-77), Leif Segerstam (1988-95), Ulf Schirmer (1995-98) and Gerd Albrecht (2000-04). In 2004 Thomas Dausgaard took up the appointment as Chief Conductor. From its home in Copenhagen the orchestra undertakes extensive concert and recording activities, and makes regular tours in Denmark and abroad. The orchestra’s discography includes Sibelius and Mahler symphony cycles as well as a long succession of Danish works – including several operas – for Dacapo, Chandos, EMI and Decca.

Photo courtesy of Agnethe Schlichtkrull

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ABRAHAMSEN: Stratifications / Nacht und Trompeten / Piano Concerto	8.226010
AMARGOS: Northern Concerto / BORTZ: Pipes and Bells / STUCKY: Etudes	6.220531
ENNA: Lille pige med svovlstikkerne (Den) / ZEMLINSKY: Die Seejungfrau	8.226048
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN, P.: Concerto Grosso (rev. 2006) / Moving Still / Last Ground (Kronos Quartet)	6.220548
HOLMBOE / GRONDAHL: Trombone Concerto / HYLDGAARD: Concerto Borealis / JORGENSEN: Romance / Suite	6.220526
HOLMBOE: Requiem for Nietzsche	8.224207
KOPPEL, A.: Concerto for Violin and Accordion / Concerto for Saxophone and Piano (Storgards)	8.226055
LANGGAARD: Antikrist	6.220523-24
LANGGAARD: Symphonies Nos. 12-14	6.220517
LANGGAARD: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3	6.220516
LANGGAARD: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5	8.224215
LANGGAARD: Symphony No. 1 (Dausgaard)	6.220525
LANGGARD, R.: Antikrist (Royal Danish Opera, 2002) (NTSC)	2.110402
NIELSEN, C.: Maskarade (Masquerade)	6.220507-08
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - Nos. 2, 3 (Schonwandt)	8.570738
NIELSEN: Complete Symphonies / The Light and the Darkness (NTSC)	2.110403-05
NIELSEN: Masquerade (excerpts) / Snefrid Suite / Rhapsodic Overture / Pan and Syrinx	6.220518
NORGARD: Lygtemaendene tager til byen / SORENSEN: Den lille havfrue	8.226046
RASMUSSEN, S.: Symphony No. 1 / Saxophone Concerto	6.220506
RIISAGER, K.: Benzin / Archaeopteryx / Til Apollon (Danish National Symphony, Hughes)	6.220527
SCHMIDT: Concertos	6.220515
SCHNITTKE: Music featured in Volker Schöndoff´s film "Der Neute Tag"	BIS-CD-1507