Langgaard: Music of the Abyss / Asmussen, Esbjerg Ensemble

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Label
Dacapo Classical
Release Date
August 13, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LANGGAARD, RUED
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Esbjerg Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Asmussen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 13, 2021
    • UPC
      636943615225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8226152
    • LABEL
      Dacapo Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

Rued Langgaard’s (1893-1952) inner division can be experienced at its extreme in the chamber music written between 1913 and 1924, in which the secure world of his youth is undercut by a dark musical understream. This is most apparent in the work for piano, Music of the Abyss, which is presented here in a transcription for chamber ensemble by Allan Gravgaard Madsen (born 1984) of which this is the first recording. This meeting between Langgaard and Gravgaard brings to a climax the work’s view of modern man’s destructive strength in a crazy ride towards the abyss.