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A unique personality in Danish musical life, the most grotesquely humorous of the large generation of Danish composers born in the inter-war years, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was - like his contemporary colleagues - preoccupied at an early stage with Stravinsky, Bartók and Hindemith, but from about 1960 plunged into experiments with serialism.

The first volume in this project, undertaken with missionary zeal by both singer and pianist, to rescue Medtner’s song output from obscurity, was met with enthusiasm in the Dutch press.

Lynden Cranham's earliest memories of Bach were overwhelming, sitting in the huge and resonant space of Westminster Cathedral listening to an organ recital. She subsequently became fascinated (as a listener and a player) by the Bach Cello Suites. It was especially poignant for Lynden, as part of the orchestra during John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, not only to play near the font where Bach had been baptised, in the Georgenkirche in Eisenach, but also to play in Köthen, where he probably composed the Cello Suites.

The fourth volume in this series culminates in Haydn’s grandest symphonies, written during his second, triumphant visit to London.

Described by Early Music Review as ‘an impressive master-class in how these texts should be declaimed’, the third volume in the Magdalena Consort’s revelatory series brings us a further eleven of these most English of English anthems—by composers John Ward, John Amner, William Stonnard, Thomas Ravenscroft, Richard Nicholson, Thomas Tomkins, William Pysing and Simon Stubbs—with accompaniment variously from Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.

A great trailblazer of early music, Michel Corboz rose to fame thanks to the numerous albums he devoted to Monteverdi at the beginning of his career.

Talented cellist Michael Kevin Jones returns to NativeDSD with Cantabile Vol. 1, another stunning album. Along with Henry Wong Doe on piano, this album is a rediscovery of music for cello and piano

Between 1851 and 1857, Peter Heise wrote six string quartets for the intimate musical soirees of Copenhagen's upper class.

SOMM RECORDINGS announces the eagerly anticipated Volume 3 of Treasures from the New World throwing revealing new light on music from the Americas. Pianist Clélia Iruzun returns, accompanied by feted guitarist and Royal Academy of Music Professor Fabio Zanon (who provides informative booklet notes) and celebrated flautist Marcelo Barboza, both making their label debuts.

It is an adventure to immerse oneself in the Norwegian treasury of song. There is so much magnificent music, and so much of it bears witness to the time in which it was written. Sigurd Lie was one of the eminent and gifted composers at the end of the nineteenth century. His body of work includes instrumental music and music for male choir and, above all, around 75 songs seldom performed after his death. The song texts were written by Norwegian poets, among them Vilhelm Krag, Sigbjørn Obstfelder and Per Sivle. This is the first of two releases in which Kielland and Mortensen illuminate all the songs and let them shine.