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- Rued Langgaard
The Sfærernes Musik (1918)
(Music of the Spheres)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
- 4(pic)3(ca)3.3/8.3.3.1/2timp.perc/hp.pf.org/str; distant orchestra: 2.1.2.0/1.0.0.0/timp/hp/str(2.1.1.1.1)
- SATB
- Mezzo soprano
- 39 min
- 23rd October 2025, DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Media
Hel-Sfaerernes Musik (Music of the Hel-Spheres), BVN 371: Efterhaanden vanvittigt Tempo
Scores
Reviews
...does interesting things to the ears...
13th August 2010
Deploying clusters, proto-minimalist repetition and expansive spatial effects, it anticipates some of the stock-in-trade of later 20th-century music by some decades.
13th August 2010
Time and again we were astonished as sounds came from remote corners of the hall...
13th August 2010
...if at the mid-point of the 36-minute impressions we wondered where Langgaard could go, the ever-onward closing sequences took us higher and further than we'd imagined possible.
12th August 2010
...if you can surrender yourself to the experiance, it can be wonderful.
5th August 2010
Discography
Music of the Spheres
- LabelDACAPO
- Catalogue Number6.220535
- ConductorThomas Dausgaard
- EnsembleDanish National Symphony Orchestra and Choirs
- Released1st August 2010
Rued Langgaard
- LabelDanaCord
- Catalogue Numberdanacord 560
- ConductorJohn Frandsen
- EnsembleThe Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir