Langgaard: Songs / McClelland Jacobsen, Riisager

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Label
Dacapo Classical
Release Date
November 3, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Rued Langgaard
    • PERFORMER
      Louise Mcclelland Jacobsen, Kristian Riisager
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 03, 2023
    • UPC
      747313695423
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8224754
    • LABEL
      Dacapo Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. Hvad lærken sang!, BVN 35

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    2. Songs (4), BVN 67

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    3. Russiske Sange, BVN 126

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    4. Sange (4), BVN 100: No. 4. Vi tænkte slet ikke på nogenting (Our thoughts were simply on nothing at all)

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    5. Min moder (My Mother), BVN 5

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    6. Jeg beder ej om guldets glød (I Do Not Ask for Gold’s Bright Glow), BVN 31

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    7. Sommer (4 Sangtonebilleder), BVN 139

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)

    8. Sange af Jenny Blicher-Clausen, BVN 66

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Louise McClelland Jacobsen (Soprano), Kristian Riisager (Piano)


Rued Langgaard is a composer who surprises. Having experienced one of his works, it is very likely that the next one you encounter will be entirely different. This is true of his songs to Danish texts, some of which are now available for the first time on record. In these songs, from his early days as a hyper-talented teenager through to his first works as a young visionary in his early 20s, we come close to him, both as a composer and as a human being.

REVIEW:

These are not among Langgaard’s most complex and modern works, but in a way using tonality and generally recognizable forms will give listeners, particularly those who have never heard Langgaard’s music before, a good idea of his working methods.

The soprano's soft singing in “Evening wraps its cloak of twilight” is absolutely exquisite, a treat for the ears, each note sounding like a silver bell. I could hear her voice in my mind’s ear for an hour after listening to this CD, and yes, that is a tribute to her exquisite vocal quality.

-- The Art Music Lounge