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String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 6 & Variations on O sacred head! Now wounded Dacapo 6220575 This is a notable debut disc from a young Danish Quartet, to bring us the first of three CDs of quartets by the maverick Danish outsider, Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) - little appreciated in his own country during his lifetime. Knowledge of his music remains patchy in UK (we have reviewed his opera Antichrist) and his extensive unpublished oeuvre is slowly seeing the light of day, long after the music's composition and the composer's death. Some marvellous music, the idiom of these quartets varies between the classical (Variations on Oh, Sacred Head - ineffable, reminds you of late Beethoven quartets !) to the wild Train passing by from Quartet No 2 anticipating Honegger's Pacific 231. No 3 is the most 'advanced' of these; "the Performances and recordings for da Capo are exemplary, with the English notes by an English (?) translator and all the background information you could want. A treasure trove, with the youthful Nightingale String Quartet (whose violinists share the leader's desk democratically) well placed to have secured such an important contract, with many of his 400 works still awaiting publication in the Rued Langgaard Edition. In London for the launch of this disc [illustrated, with Cecilie Rosenmeier of Dacapo] it was a pleasure to meet and talk with these young ladies who have, of course, excellent English, and to meet their mentor and coach, eminent violist Tim Frederiksen. See the Nightingale Quartet on an innovative You Tube vdeo ! Peter Grahame Woolf Langgaard: The Symphonies - - It's delightful to see Dausgaard's revelatory recordings of Langgaard's symphonies have been collected into a single box. This is a superb and rare blending of a great composer and a great interpreter. [Amazon]
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Langgaard String Quartets Vol 1
most wildly experimental Danish music before Nielsen's symphony No 6 ..."