Langgaard: Music of the Spheres Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Thomas Dausgaard

• 1 I. Like sunbeams on a coffin decorated with sweet smelling flowers - 03:01
• 2 II. Like the twinkling of stars in the blue sky at sunset - 03:20
• 3 III. Like light and the depths - 02:21
• 4 IV. Like the refraction of sunbeams in the waves - 01:03
• 5 V. Like the twinkling of a pearl of dew in the sun on a beautiful summer's morning - 00:35
• 6 VI. Longing - Despair - Ecstasy - 03:44
• 7 VII. Soul of the world - Abyss - All Soul's day - 02:25
• 8 VIII. I wish …! - 01:17
• 9 IX. Chaos - Ruin - Far and near - 02:14
• 10 X. Flowers wither - 01:32
• 11 XI. Glimpse of the sun through tears - 06:03
• 12 XII. Bells pealing: Look! He comes - 01:53
• 13 XIII. The gospel of flowers - From the far distance - 02:39
• 14 XIV. The new day - 01:25
• 15 XV. The end: Antichrist - Christ 06:28
• For mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra, Endens tid (The Time of the End), BVN 243 (1921-23/1939-40/1943)
• 16 I. Antichrist: Prelude 09:34
• 17 II. At the End of Time - 05:06
• 18 III. Towards the End of the World - 04:23
• 19 IV. The Catastrophe 05:08
• 20 Fra dybet (From the Deep), BVN 414 07:33
• Total Runtime 01:11:44

Info for Langgaard: Music of the Spheres

Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was an odd, lonely figure in Danish music. The three works on this album are among his most effective and visionary orchestral works. They are apocalyptic works with a religious message, and each involves a musical contrast between a chaotic, doomed world and a celestial world of beauty and light. The Music of the Spheres, with its evocative, striking timbres, is Langgaard’s most original and forward-pointing work, and a major work of Scandinavian music.

'Stunningly ambitious and well-executed...Amazing.' (BBC Music Magazine)

Hetna Regitze Bruun, mezzo-soprano
Inger Dam-Jensen, soprano
Danish National Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Peter Lodahl, tenor
Johan Reuter, baritone
Rued Langgaard, composer

Tracklist:
Sfærernes musik, BVN 128 (Music of the Spheres) (1916-1918) For soprano solo, chorus, orchestra and distant orchestra
Wie Sonnestralen auf einem mit duftenden Blumen bedeckten Sarg
Wie Sternenschimmer an einen bläulichen Himmel bei Sonnenuntergang
Wie Licht und Abgrund
Wie die Brechung der Sonnenstrahlen in den Wellen
Wie Tauperle schimmert in der Sonne an einem schönen Sommermorgen
Sehnsucht – Verzweiflung – Extase
Weltseele – Abgrund – Allerseelen
Ich will!
Chaos – Ruin – fern und nah
Blumen welken
Blick durch Tränen auf die Sonne
Glockenreigen: Siehe, er kommt
Blumenevangelium – aus weiter Ferne
Der neue Tag
Das Ende: Antichrist – Christ
Endens tid (The Time of the End), BVN 243 (1921-23/1939-40/1943) For mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra
I Antikrist. Præludium (Antichrist. Prelude)
II Ved endens tid (At the End of Time)
III Mod Ragnerok (Towards the End of the World)
IV Katastrofen (The Catastrophe)
Fra dybet (From the Abyss), BVN 414, (1950/52)
For chorus with soloists and orchestra

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