Danish music may be one of the finest under-discovered realms in all classical music. This is particularly true of music from the Romantic era, as this podcast and CD show. These violin concertos by Niels Gade, Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller and Rued Langgaard - hardly household names - deserve to be heard more widely on CD, and much more often in concert. These performances were recorded in 2009 with violin soloist Christina Astrand and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Storgards.

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Catalogue No.: Dacapo 6.220562

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Here is an article from Anne is a Man of Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast Episode: Introducing Bright Sheng

This composer of Chinese descent is not easy to place, just as, host Raymond Bisha compares, the Belgian composer Olivier Messiaen…

… making orchestras is one thing, but developing a repertoire is much, much more difficult…

… he brings in his Chinese roots, he also learns from the western musical tradition. The result is profoundly Chinese…

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