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Composer of the Week: Langgaard

on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod ends the series with an exploration of Langgaard's last decade. Langgard had finally landed a job as a cathedral organist, but in the small city of Ribe, far from his native Copenhagen. After 25 years of ridicule and rejection he seems to have wondered what was the point of being a composer at all, and wrote some of the strangest music of his life. With contributions from Tage Nielsen , who as a young man in Ribe became friends with Langgaard, and from Langgaard's biographer Bendt Viinholt Nielsen. Carl Nielsen , Our Great Composer Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Dance of the Dead (Le Beguinage) Rosalind Bevan (piano) Deserted Streets
Jorgen Ernst Hansen (Ribe Cathedral organ) Ecrasezl'lnfame OssurBaek (violin), David Strong (piano)
Symphony No 16 (Flood of Sun)
Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor llyaStupel From the Deep
Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Tage Nielsen
Unknown:
Bendt Viinholt Nielsen.
Unknown:
Carl Nielsen
Conductor:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Piano:
Rosalind Bevan
Unknown:
Jorgen Ernst Hansen
Piano:
David Strong
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam

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