Brahms’s chamber music has always had a very special significance to Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir. When the professional vocal ensemble was founded in 2005, founder and conductor Mogens Dahl’s first wish was to bring to life Brahms’s romantic music to the intense Eastern European love poems. The music was released on CD as earlys as in 2007: “Liebeslieder”.

Now, many years later, the founder has felt an urge to re-visit the beautiful songs of ill-fated love. This concert is will consist of alternating works for choir a cappella, piano solo pieces and woks for choir and piano.

The piano at this concert is in the hands of Danish Piano Duo, a duo formed by the great concert pianists Tanja Zapolski and Rikke Sandberg. Separately, over the last few decades, they have established themselves as two of the most sought-after pianists in the Nordic, both as solo performers and with chamber music. They have performed accross most of Europe, USA and Asia and received an incredible number of prestigious awards and honors. The duo met as young students by the same teacher, the yearsbefore they started at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and have played together since whenever possible. Their close and long-lasting relationship makes them symbiotic and playful in their musical approach to the repertoire of 2 pianos and 4 hands.

Contributors:
Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Rikke Sandberg, pianist
Tanja Zapolski, pianist
Mogens Dahl, conductor

Photo: Ole Christiansen