• Classical
  Enorme Begeisterung
  
  Carl...
  Thomas Dausgaard, Danish National Symphony
  Dacapo
  Nicht zufällig steht am Anfang des Album die Ouvertüre zur Oper »Maskarade« (1904/06) – ein Paradestück brillanter...
• Classical
  Frische und Energie
  
  Nielsen:...
  Tim Frederiksen, The Danish String Quartet
  Dacapo
  This album features two of his string quartets (in G minor and G major) and the only string quintet (in G major) he...
• Classical
  Einfach unglaublich
  
  Nielsen, C.:...
  The Danish String Quartet
  Dacapo
  Here is the second volume of The Young Danish String Quartet's highly acclaimed miniseries of Carl Nielsen's string...

Thomas Dausgaard - Conductor
Thomas Dausgaard became Chief Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in August 2004. The orchestra has developed impressively under his leadership, embracing his energy and creativity. With Dausgaard they tour world-wide, performing in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam and London and they have also recorded extensively together. Of particular note is their disc of Nielsen works which was nominated for a 2007 Gramophone award. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra has also flourished under Dausgaard’s direction since he took up his position there in 1997. Having brought this group from a regional orchestra to international attention over the past decade, he and the orchestra have recorded all of Beethoven’s orchestral music for Simax, and they continue to record prolifically, breaking with tradition as a chamber orchestra to record all of Schumann’s symphonies and a selection of symphonies from Dvorák, Schubert, Schumann and Bruckner for BIS.


Thomas Dausgaard guest conducts several of the world’s leading orchestras. Recent and future guest conducting highlights include engagements with Vienna Symphony Orchestra (both at the Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus), Berlin Konzerthausorchester, SWR Stuttgart, Czech Philharmonic, Verdi Orchestra Milano and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic amongst others. He works with the leading Scandinavian Orchestras, including the Swedish Radio, Oslo and Stockholm Philharmonics. In the UK, Dausgaard works with the Bournemouth Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and he returns to the Proms in 2010 with both the Danish National Symphony and Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard also conducts regularly in North America. He has worked with many of the major orchestras including the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. The current season has included a return to the Toronto Symphony, where he conducted a hugely successful Sibelius cycle which received the highest critical acclaim, and concerts with the Seattle Symphony, where Dausgaard was praised by the Seattle Times for his ‘distinguished interpretations’. Dausgaard also makes regular appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and in the 10/11 season, he will make his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard already has a discography of more than 30 recordings with companies such as Dacapo Records, Chandos, Simax and EMI Medley. His recent releases have included Nielsen and Langgaard works for Dacapo and Berlioz for Chandos. His much praised DVD recording of Langgaard’s opera Antikrist on the Dacapo label won ‘DVD of the Year’ at the 2005 International Internet Awards.


Danish National Symphony Orchestra
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR SymfoniOrkestret) is an internationally acclaimed orchestra with proud traditions, founded in 1925 as one of the first radio symphony orchestras. With its chief conductor and honorary conductor the orchestra is in particularly expert hands, and other master conductors are also regular visitors. The orchestra collaborates with among others Marek Janowski, Gary Bertini, Jeffrey Tate, Jaap van Zweden, Alexandre Lazarev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Christopher Hogwood, , Ton Koopman, Marc Soustrot, Manfred Honeck, Marin Alsop, Leopold Hager, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sylvain Cambreling, Leonard Slatkin, Gianandrea Noseda, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, John Eliot Gardiner and . The German conductor Gerd Albrecht was chief conductor of the orchestra in 2000-2004, and Yuri Temirkanov 1. guest conductor from 2000 to 2008. Two legendary conductors built up the orchestra in the early years: Fritz Busch and the Rus¬sian Nicolai Malko, whom the orchestra honours with the international Malko Competition for young conductors. Over the years the orchestra has also worked with some of the greatest composers of the twentieth century as soloists and conductors: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hinde¬mith, Pierre Boulez, Witold Lutoslawski, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR tours regularly in Denmark and abroad, in its role as Denmark’s national orchestra. In recent years the orchestra has performed in places as far apart as China, Korea, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Proms in London, the Baltic Festival in Stockholm and most recently with a successful tour of the Continent with concerts in among other venues the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.


Carl Nielsen - Composer (1865 - 1931)
Carl August Nielsen was born on 9th June 1865 at Sortelung near Nørre Lyndelse on the island of Funen. His father, who was a painter, also worked as a village musician, and as a boy Carl was already playing in his father's dance orchestra. At the same time he played in the local amateur orchestra, Braga, whose repertoire, besides entertainment and dance music, also included the symphonies of Vienna Classicism. At the age of just fourteen he was engaged as a trombonist in the regimental band in Odense.

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