A hundred years ago, as the Machine Age was getting under way, and cinema was about to sweep the globe, many composers retreated into a dream. They wrote vast cloudy orchestral tableaux in which ...

In classical music, it would be hard to find a greater individualist than Danish composer Rued Langgaard. Unlike his anti-romantic contemporaries bent on writing "new" music, Langgaard remained rooted ...

The Dane Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) is one of those composers who doesn't fit easily into any conventional scheme of 20th-century music. Most of his music is unexceptionably late-Romantic but, in his ...

It was György Ligeti's discovery of Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres, and his observation that it anticipated many of the techniques for which he was given credit more than 40 years later, that ...

Andrew Mellor offers a guide to the Langgaard's 'singular reimagining of music’s parameters of time and space' At this year's Gramophone Awards the Nightingale String Quartet won the Young Artist of ...

If the name Rued Langgaard means nothing to you, you're in good - or at least plentiful - company. Born in 1893, the Danish composer was a stranger even to his contemporaries, his music scorned and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new account of Langgaard’s first symphony, a refreshing perspective on Reynaldo Hahn and sweeping contemporary programs are among the highlights.

The title of this disc, “Danish Romantic Piano Trios”, is almost redundant since the piano trio, although ultimately inspired the classical Viennese form (Haydn, basically), took until the mid-19 th ...

I’d heard on the grapevine that a symphony by Rued Langgaard was being played at this year’s Proms, but I have to admit my heart sank slightly when I discovered it was his 11th, Ixion. Six months ago, ...

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