PROGRAM:
G. F. Händel: The Messiah

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
International soloists
Mogens Dahl – conductor

FRIDAY THE 6TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
SATURDAY THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
HOLMENS Kirke, Copenhagen

Year after year, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has tightened their grip on their very own version of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has been an ideal co-player in the international project that offers the audience of Copenhagen an at once modern and loyal version of the oratorio, which to many is the ultimate Christmas music.

In 2019 it will be the 12th time Mogens Dahl conducts a crisp baroque orchestra, international soloist stars, and his own top-trimmed, professional choir, in a full Holmens Kirke.

PROGRAM:
G. F. Händel: The Messiah

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
International soloists
Mogens Dahl – conductor

FRIDAY THE 6TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
SATURDAY THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
HOLMENS Kirke, Copenhagen

Year after year, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has tightened their grip on their very own version of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has been an ideal co-player in the international project that offers the audience of Copenhagen an at once modern and loyal version of the oratorio, which to many is the ultimate Christmas music.

In 2019 it will be the 12th time Mogens Dahl conducts a crisp baroque orchestra, international soloist stars, and his own top-trimmed, professional choir, in a full Holmens Kirke.

Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer – violinLawrence Dutton – viola, Paul Watkins – cello

The Times expressed it like this: “…with musicians such as these, there must be some kind of hope for humanity.” Otherwise, nine Grammys, three Gramophone-prizes, the Avery Fisher-prize, and the ’Ensemble of the Year’ in America of course speak for themselves about the victory lap of the Emerson String Quartet since their beginning in New York in 1976.

In the quartet’s 2019-season, they are still after 40 years the “quartet in residence” at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. They will perform as part of the “Chamber Music Society” in the Lincoln Center in New York and go on two great tours in Europe – where one of the tours leads them to this intimate concert in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir,
Søren Johannsen – organ, musicians from the DR-symphony orchestra,
Mogens Dahl – conductor

Sunday the 3^rdof November 2019 at 9.00 PM
Christians Kirke, Copenhagen

PROGRAM

Sven-David Sandström (1942 – 2019): Seventeenth Century Nun’s Prayer (2019) FIRST PERFORMANCE

Per Gunnar Petersson (f. 1954): Libera me (2000)

Olivier Messiaen:
L’Ascension, del 4 (for organ)
Prière du Christ montant vers son père

Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992): O sacrum Convivium (1937)

Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924): Requiem (1893)

The first performance by Sweden’s internationally recognized – and recently deceased – composer, Sven-David Sandström, introduces the Halloween concert, rich in traditions, in Christians Kirke. As the “composer in residence,” he has created several spectacular pieces written for and dedicated to the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir.

For this occasion, Sven-David Sandström has written the music for a text filled with humor and wisdom from the 17^thcentury, in which one of the phrases goes: “Help me stay somewhat amiable.” In other words, it is going to be an evening where the typical seriousness attached to man’s awareness of death is supplemented with a freeing lightness. Frailty, fulness of life, joy, laughter, sorrow: All of this is part of that life which is encircled– and infused with meaning – by death.

Kit Armstrong, piano

An extraordinary piano virtuoso, a mathematical genius, a unique composer – Kit Armstrong is in all ways one of a kind, and the intimate chamber concert with the American super-talent is going to be a spectacular encounter with a rare personality.

Kit Armstrong is 27 years old, but he has already completed an education which makes even seasoned polymaths dizzy. Already as a seven-year-old, he studied physics at California State University for the first time – while at the same time attending high school and being enrolled at the Chapman University as a student of composing. As a nine-year-old, he became a full-time student at Utah State University with courses in biology, physics, mathematics, and music. As a twelve-year-old, he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music – and it goes on and on like this. Today, he has graduated summa cum laude from both the Royal Academy of Music and the Marie-Curie University in Paris.

All of this happened while Kit Armstrong most unprecedentedly also took to the world as a celebrated pianist!

The young multi-artist could just as well have filled the program with his own compositions, but he has chosen a program that brings us through the basic but major works from the times of the piano’s childhood and youth.

We are sorry to announce that the concert today at. 8 pm in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall with Vilde Frang & Michail Lifits is canceled due to illness.

If you purchased a ticket through Billetlugen.dk or Politiken Plus, you will get an inquiry directly from them.

It is now possible for you to get very close to Vilde Frang’s seducing championship. When she was four years old, she already played the violin. As a ten-year-old, she performed with the radio orchestra of Norway, and as a twelve-year-old, she made it big internationally. Here, you will only be feet away from her at a chamber music concert, where she –in the company of a German star of the same age, Michail Lifits –will use her world known violin magic on Brahms, Schubert, and Bartok.

Vilde Frang’s career was partly strengthened by Anne-Sophie Mutter’s mentor role. And, her lightning speed road to stardom has all in all brought her to the international level –a place only occupied by a few others. Nonetheless, her playing is often described with words like “a child’s bliss” and “elven-like.”

Michail Lifits also reached the top quickly. He already has several first prizes on his resumé from international piano competitions, and he has been celebrated for his dazzling music on scenes such as Carnegie Hall, Salle Cortot, Wigmore Hall, and Tonhalle.

Camilla Tilling, Sopran & Paul Rivinius, Piano

A Swedish star soprano will, together with the fantastic German pianist Paul Rivinius, fill the Mogens Dahl Koncert Hall with wonderful lieds and songs from both the north and the south.

Camilla Tilling studied at the University of Gothenburg and at the Royal College of Music in London. After this followed a meteoric career that was jump-started at the New York City Opera and with subsequent debuts at the largest international opera scenes. The success has only continued – and that includes the chamber music, as Paul Rivinius is often found by her side.

It has been long since Paul Rivinius conquered Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, and many others… Earlier, he was a professor in chamber music in Berlin, but he is now a full-time touring musician with a base in Munich.

Program

Bo Linde (1933 – 1970):
Äppelträd och päronträd
Den ängen där du kysste mig

Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957):
Fem sange, op. 37
Den första kyssen
Lasse liten
Soluppgång
Var det en dröm
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte

Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907):
Seks sange, op. 48
Gruss
Dereinst, Gedanke mein
Lauf der Welt
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
Zur Rosenzeit
Ein Traum

PAUSE

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871 – 1942):
Walzer-Gesänge op. 6.
Liebe Schwalbe
Klagen ist der Mond gekommen
Fensterlein, nachts bist du zu
Ich geh’ des Nachts
Blaues Sternlein
Briefchen schrieb ich

Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911):
Rückert Lieder 
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
Liebst du um Schönheit
Um Mitternacht
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Mogens Dahl – conductor

Saturday the 7^thof September 2019 at 5.00 PM
Christians Kirke, Copenhagen

“The street is the house of prayer (oratorium) for protests, and the slogans of the street move into the church in this piece. Book of Prayers is not a traditional oratorio with one single narrative. It is a paraphrase of the genre with a starting point in the word orare – to pray.” This is how Niels Rønsholdt explains the point of his new piece, which is performed for the first time in cooperation with the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir,Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, and the Golden Days Festival.

Niels Rønsholdt is a composer and an artist of sound– trained partly in private by Lasse Laursen and Helmut Oehring and partly at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium by Karl Aage Rasmussen, Bent Sørensen, Per Nørgård, and more. He has among other things composed a number of commission pieces for important festivals, publishers, and ensembles, such as the Akademie der Künste, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, TRANSIT Festival, and Den Jyske Opera.

Book of Prayers will shape as an ambiguous piece that both celebrates human devotion in prayer and at the same time displays the thought-provoking idea of praying rather than acting. It is a deeply felt portrait of hope that at the same time criticizes religion and criticizes political apathy and aggression, of which both prayer and slogan respectively can reflect.

The text for the oratorio originates from the Stasi’s systematic documentation of the slogans on the street in the dramatic months by the end of 1989 – made concrete in one specific notebook with the handwritten notes of Stasi-agents on the slogans of the October Revolution.

The dark timbre of the cello takes up a very special place in the heart of many music lovers. With the Norwegian master cellist Truls Mørk, accompanied by the piano phenomenon Behzod Abduraimov from Uzbekistan, you are in for an evening which – like the tones of the cello – will enter deeply into both your body and soul.

Truls Mørk has toured the whole world, and he has an impressive number of acclaimed records in his repertoire at companies such as Virgin Classics, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Ondine, Arte Nova, and Chandos. The grand prizes from Gramophone, Grammy, Midem and ECHO Klassik, have followed in a steady stream.

The prodigy Behzod Abduraimov from Uzbekistan studied in the US and has become a pianist that you cannot escape: All the big orchestras hire him in these years as a sure bet when it comes to virtuous and original performance of the grand piano-literature.

PROGRAM:
Korkoncert med musik af Svend S. Schultz, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Hugo Alfven, Wilhelm Stenhammer, Jørgen Jersild m.fl.

MEDVIRKENDE:
MOGENS DAHL KAMMERKOR
MOGENS DAHL, DIRIGENT

Simon Peters Kirke
Wibrandtsvej 41B
2300 København S.

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

Brahms’s Liebeslieder have had a very special significance for Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir. When the professional vocal ensemble was founded in 2005, founder and conductor Mogens Dahl first wanted the lifelong love for Brahms’s romantic music to the intense Eastern European love poems to come to life. The music was released on CD in 2007.

Now, 14 years later, when Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has developed into an international company with a series of performances of major works dedicated to the choir in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany, the founder has felt an urge to re-visit the beautiful songs of ill-fated love…

Dietrich Henschel, Baritone
Elina Shimkus, Soprano
Tanja Zapolski and Rikke Sandberg, piano
Mogens Dahl Chamberchoir, conducted by Mogens Dahl

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897):
Ein Deutsches Requiem, op. 45.
Arrangement for soloists, choir and piano four hands by Phillip Moll

Brahms’s requiem in Phillip Moll’s version became an amazing experience for the audience at their first Danish performance in Holmen Church last year. The translucent and elegant version of the work is certainly worth repeating – the beginning of a new Easter tradition for the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir…

In 2017, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir received permission from Rundfunkchor Berlin to use their new arrangement, written for choir and piano four hands. It has also been performed earlier with this crew – including by Brahms himself – but in recent years especially, there has been an increasing interest in exploring the requiem in a tender chamber music version where Brahms’s amazing work is revealed with great power by the choir’s voices

Ein Deutsches Requiem is performed with the two outstanding Danish pianists Rikke Sandberg and Tanja Zapolski, and with soloists at the highest international level.

Eight years ago, the then 22-year-old Lise de la Salle visited us for the first time. At that time she was recognised as “a talent in a million’”(The Gramophone) and we were looking forward to meeting an unstoppable piano phenomenon. Her reputation as an extreme virtuoso but also uniquely unfolded musical personality has only grown since then and it is not too much to say that she has been walking up the road to stardom from child to adult without betraying the nickname she received from the French newspaper Nice -Matin: “Fairy of the Keys”

Lise de la Salle has called her programme “Paris” after her beloved hometown, and explains why: “All the programme’s composers have lived in Paris for shorter or longer periods, and the city has influenced their lives and music in different ways. Mozart spent some of his most important years in the city and had a love-hate relationship with France and Paris. Ravel studied at Fauré at Conservatoire de Paris and the two Chopin ballads were composed in Paris.”

Alexander Pavlovsky – violin, Sergei Bresler – violin, Ori Kam – violla, Kyril Zlotnikov – cello

The home address is, of course, Israel. But this quartet’s workplace often changes. With at least two annual US tours, performing, for example, in Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie or Theatre des Champs-Elysées, as well as tours to Russia, the Jerusalem Quartet has been commended as one of the greatest string quartets in the world. With a number of award-winning releases at Harmonia Mundi, the warmth and balanced sound of the ensemble have become a hallmark, whether we talk about new or old-time music.

Soo-jin Hong – violin, Soo-kyung Hong – cello, Jens Elvekjær – piano

If there is a Danish ensemble we in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall have followed closely, it is the elegant and successful Trio con Brio Copenhagen, “Artist in Residence” with us in 2008 and 2009, now celebrating their 20th anniversary. The two Korean-born sisters and Danе Jens Elvekjær, who met in Vienna, have the power both to make individual careers and to attract international attention as an ensemble. They have been met by recognition and praise all over the world. For example, American Record Guide wrote “One of the greatest performances of chamber music I’ve ever encountered”.

Ronald Copes and Areta Zhulla, violin – Roger Tapping, viola – Astrid Schween, cello

Things move quickly for the 72-year old: Juilliard Quartet visited Mogens Dahl Concert Hall in 2018 with a new cellist, and now, on their eighth visit, there is yet another female addition to the world-famous Quartet. Areta Zhulla has studied at Juilliard School of Music and since September 2018 has been participating in the impressive touring activity of the quartet. “Playing with my colleagues has felt very special and just right from the very first moment,” she says about the honour of being admitted to this legendary ensemble. (“The Most Important American Quartet in History’”- Boston Globe.)

PROGRAM:
G. F. Händel: The Messiah

MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
MOGENS DAHL, CONDUCTOR

SOLISTS:
SOPRANO: DENISE BECK (DENMARK)
ALTO: JAKUB JÓZEF ORLINSKI (POLAND)
TENOR: JAMES WAY (ENGLAND)
BASS: GORDON BINTNER (CANADA)

PROGRAM:
G. F. Händel: The Messiah

MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
MOGENS DAHL, CONDUCTOR

SOLISTS:
SOPRANO: DENISE BECK (DENMARK)
ALTO: JAKUB JÓZEF ORLINSKI (POLAND)
TENOR: JAMES WAY (ENGLAND)
BASS: GORDON BINTNER (CANADA)

UNFORTUNATELY THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS!

Francesco Piemontesi’s first visit to Mogens Dahl Koncertsal took place in Autumn 2017, when he accompanied the cellist Daniel Müller-Schott at a tremendous performance of Brahms’ cello sonatas. The brilliant Swiss well-known by concert-goers worldwide – performing, amongst others, as a soloist with a number of the world’s best orchestras.

Not least his handle on Mozart and the early romantics has caused a stir. However, he also masters honest baroque to perfection. The Guardian describes his interpretation of Bach thus ”composer defeats ego, musical integrity defeats superficiality, persistent preparation defeats hopeful happenstance”.

MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
MOGENS DAHL, CONDUCTOR
SØREN JOHANNSEN, ORGAN
LASSE MAURITZEN, HORN 

PROGRAM:
Sven-David Sandström (f. 1942): Lamento in lontano – hornsolo (Uropførelse)

Per Nørgård (f. 1932): Aftonland
Engång skal du vare en av dem
Gissa din gåta, lille bror,
Låt min skugga försvinna i din
Du sträcker ut din skymningshand

Anna Cederberg-Orreteg (f. 1958): Skisser til Aftonland
Nu är det sommarmorgen
Du människa
Fågelunge, lyft din vinge
Gissa din gåta

Peter Bruun (f. 1968): Aftonland (Uropførelse)
Hans skugga föll over jorden
Som molnen
Att hjärtats ord aldrig må vika
Vem gick förbi min barndoms fönster

Per Nørgård (f. 1932): tre orgelkoraler from opus 12
Ak Gud, fra Himlen se herned
Nu bede vi den Helligånd
Mig hjærtelig nu længes

Sven-David Sandström: Hvor er så dejligt som Din klode (for kor og orgel)

Per Gunnar Petersson (f. 1954): Aftonland
Allt är så underligt fjärran i dag, Det är om aftonen man bryter upp
Engång skall du vara en av dem, Den döda

Sven-David Sandström: O Sacrum Convivium

The Calidore Quartet’s ”deep reserves of virtuosity and irresistible dramatic instinct” (New York Times) and ”balance of intellect and expression” (Los Angeles Times) has won them recognition worldwide. The ensemble has been the subject of a rather extraordinary shower of prizes, to include the Avery Fisher Prize and the M Prize of $100,000, the world’s largest prize for chamber music. The Calidore Quartet regularly performs at the most prestigious venues – highlights of the 2017-18 season include debuts at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall and BBC Proms as well as concerts in Boston, Philadelphia, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Barcelona.

In October 2018, their debut album for Signum Records is released and contains the music played in this concert, which Calidore have titled ’Music and Conflict’.

Alice Coote has travelled from Northern England to operatic stages worldwide in no time at all. However, the lied repertoire has been central throughout her impressive career and she has long since given recitals at the largest venues in both Europe and the USA: Wigmore Hall (where she was the ’artist in residence’), BBC Proms, Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Lincoln Centre and Carnegie Hall, to mention but a few.

In Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, the mezzosoprano introduces what she calls ’22 songs you cannot live without’. It is a repertoire which, in addition to a great singer, also requires a great pianist and you can call Julius Drake just that; he has become well-known to the Mogens Dahl Koncertsal audience. Besides his extensive activities as a performer, the extraordinary pianist is today a professor at the London Royal Academy of Music.

“Blinding in its purity and with so much natural energy”. The critic from the magazine Klassisk understood very well why the Belcea Quartet had shot to the top when they visited Mogens Dahl Koncertsal in 2009. The ensemble has impressed from the outset and was already, when the members were quite young, a ’quartet in residence’ of the London Wigmore Hall for all of five years.

The British quartet was founded by Rumanian Corina Belcea and Polish Krzysztof Chorzelski. Since then, the French musicians Axel Schacher and Antoine Lederlin have contributed to the national diversity of the Quartet.

MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
ATHELAS SINFONIETTA COPENHAGEN
SØREN JOHANNSEN – ORGAN
MOGENS DAHL – CONDUCTOR

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir introduces a number of striking works by Alfred Schnittke in collaboration with Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Golden Days Festival.

He was basically an unknown outside the Soviet Union until the early 80s and he was not popular amongst the ruling elite of his homeland. His music was found to be highbrow and elitist; however, after the Wall fell, he moved to Hamburg and, in no time, experienced being a great and well-known name.

The music of Alfred Schnittke unfolds in all genres and many styles. Best known is probably his suite in old-fashioned style, which was used as a DR P2 signature tune. This concert sees the performance of one of his rarer works: Lebenslauf (life story), in which the stubbornly ticking metronome plays a role, amongst others.

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With a tribute to German, romantic music built into the name of the ensemble, the French musicians travel the world and are praised everywhere they go for their technique, empathy and telepathic interplay. In 2013, Trio Wanderer was the ’ensemble in residence’ in Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, when they introduced us to both Viennese-classical masterpieces and more recent music. This visit from ’the wandering stars’ (Strad magazine) will also offer great breadth with Haydn, Dvorák and Schubert on the programme.

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As many as nine times has the Emerson String Quartet brought home a Grammy. They have been awarded for performing both music by the First Viennese School and music by later composers such as Bartók and Shostakovich. However, the Grammies and the many other awards the ensemble has received for its unrivalled quartet performance are just the tip of the iceberg among the Emerson String Quartet\’s merits. Unique in-depth insight into chamber music acquired over more than 40 years of experience makes the visit of the New Yorkers’ quartet to Mogens Dahl Concert Hall something quite exceptional.

Mogens Dahl Kammerkor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sopran: Dénise Beck
Alt: Karolina Blixt
Tenor: James Oxley
Bas: Peter Harvey
Mogens Dahl, dirigent

Det er nu tiende gang Mogens Dahl Kammerkor synger julen ind med Händels mest populære korværk – og en skandinavisk-britisk stjernebesætning, hvor et af Danmarks førende vokalensembler stævner Englands mest fremtrædende barokorkester til et musikalsk møde med et internationalt solisthold.

Det er tredje gang, koret slår pjalterne sammen med The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment fra London, et af verdens mest anerkendte specialensembler for musikken fra 1700-tallet. Også to af solisterne, James Oxley (tenor) og Peter Harvey (bas), bliver hentet i England. Begge to har høstet stor ros for deres fortolkninger af engelsk barokmusik og ikke mindst Händels udødelige arier.

Men også denne traditionsrige koncert i Holmens Kirke er blevet rost til skyerne af samtlige anmeldere, som har forelsket sig i Mogens Dahls slanke og sprøde barokudgave:.

★★★★★★

“Mogens Dahls mageløse Messias” skrev Berlingskes anmelder Søren Schauser sidste år, og også Politiken var begejstret: ”Det var enkelt, smukt og forløsende”, skrev Thomas Michelsen og gav fem hjerter.

Skrevet oprindeligt som påskeoratorium, fik ”The Messiah” ved sin uropførelse i Dublin for præcist 275 år siden en entusiastisk modtagelse af publikum. Begejstringen varede ved, således at værket – yderst usædvanligt for selv store og betydningsfulde kompositioner fra den tid – siden har haft en stort set uafbrudt opførelseshistorie. Den fortsættes nu i Holmens Kirke med 10-års jubilæet for Mogens Dahl Kammerkors fremførelse, som i sig selv danner en tradition.

Om solisterne:

Dénise Beck er uden tvivl og i bogstavelig forstand én af de mest spændende danske stemmer på Europas opera- og koncertscener. Hun har sunget på bl.a. Bregenzer Festspiele, Operaen i Oslo, i Concertgebouw i Amsterdam og i Wiener Konzerthaus samt vundet en lang række fornemme priser. Dénise vender jævnligt tilbage til sin hjemby København, har bl.a. sunget med DR SymfoniOrkestret og var solist i Mogens Dahl Kommerkors Messias-opførelser i 2013. Læs mere

Karolina Blixt er født og opvokset i Stockholm og debuterede i Händels ”Xerxes”, én af de mest kendte barokoperaer. Lige siden har musik fra 1700-tallet spillet en særlig rolle i Karolinas kunstneriske karriere, og hun har sunget med nogle af de førende barokensembler. Læs mere

James Oxley tæller iblandt Storbritanniens mest betydningsfulde tenorer i vor tid. Der er næppe nogen af de store koncertsale tilbage, som han ikke har optrådt i. James Oxley har samarbejdet med nogle af de førende orkestre, kor og dirigenter inden for barokmusikken, herunder The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monteverdi Choir og Philippe Herreweghe. Læs mere

Peter Harvey er endnu en kendt ansigt blandt solisterne i Mogens Dahl Kammerkors årlige Messias-koncerter. Sidste års anmeldere beskrev hans store udtryksmæssige spændevidde som hhv. ”blød og brutal” (Berlingske) og ”smukt kommunikerende med komprimeret ondskab i stemmen” (Politiken).  Listen over de orkestre og dirigenter han har samarbejdet med, kan læses som en slags barokmusikverdenens ”Who is Who”. Læs mere

Det verdensberømte barokorkester fra London spiller på periodekorrekte instrumenter og er kendt for en frisk og ukonventionel stil. Ensemblet skriver om sig selv: ”For tre årtier siden tog en gruppe musikere fra London et grundigt kig på den mærkværdige institution, der kaldes ‘orkester’, og besluttede at starte forfra. Allerførst smed de regelbogen ud. Hvorfor nøjes med en enkel dirigent i spid­sen for det hele? Nej. Hvorfor specialisere sig i et bestemt repertoire? For begrænsende. Perfektionere et enkelt værk, og så gå videre? For dovent. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment var født.“ Orkestrets søgen efter autenticitet, topklasse, mangfoldighed og nytænkning gør det til en oplagt og højt skattet samarbejdspartner for Mogens Dahl Kammerkor, som i år er med de traditionelle Messias-koncerter for tredje gang.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 
Soprano: Dénise Beck
Alto: Karolina Blixt
Tenor: James Oxley
Bass: Peter Harvey
Mogens Dahl, conductor

It is now the 10th time Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir sing Christmas in with Händel\’s most popular choral work – the magnificent oratorio Messiah. This traditional concert in Holmen’s Church has been praised to the heavens by all reviewers, who have fallen in love with Mogens Dahl\’s slender and crisp Baroque edition.

With shifting string ensembles, a large selection of young international soloists and the professional Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir in the centre, the ambition has been to create a knife-sharp edition where Händel\’s amazing melodies and well-played baroques gain the greatest impact. At this year\’s performance, the amazing Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from England will once again contribute.

★★★★★★

“Mogens Dahl\’s outstanding Messiah” wrote Berlingske\’s reviewer Søren Schauser, and adorned it with six stars following the performance where the British Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment contributed for the first time in 2016. Politiken was also enthusiastic: “It was simple, beautiful and redeeming,” wrote Thomas Michelsen.

Four young musicians gathered in 1975 while studying at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest – the result was a string quartet that quickly harvested in gold medals and gained attention throughout the Western world. Today they are based in the United States, and tour actively around the world.

The quartet has been firmly affiliated with Wigmore Hall in London since 2012, and was included in the Gramophones “Hall of Fame magazine” together with Leonard Bernstein and Janet Baker. The Takács String Quartet is deeply committed to teaching the next generation of classical musicians. They have master classes on a permanent basis in the United States, and they are affiliated to the Guildhall Music School in London.

“A fearless player with technique to burn” – the New York Times has put words on the cello phenomenon Daniel Müller-Schott. He debuted in Carnegie Hall in 2000, following an invitation from Anne-Sophie Mutter, who he later recorded Mozart\’s piano trios with. Concert halls everywhere have benefited from the far-reaching musician who has also found time to build an impressive discography with a wealth of prizes and accolades.

The 2016/17 season brings Müller-Schott to Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, USA and Europe, and he will be among the first to perform at the inauguration of the newly built Elb Philharmonic in Hamburg. At Mogens Dahl he is accompanied by “BBC New Generation Artist 2009-11” Francesco Piemontesi.

At this year\’s traditional All Saints Concert, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir will celebrate the hope of light, which can only be seen in the dark. This late Sunday evening, when we remember those we have lost, is also a reminder that the classical vocal music emerged out of the sacred ambiance and the monks\’ nightly chanted prayer. The spirit of the song does not seek to overthrow the silence, but rather to sing the duet with it, so that the silence comes forward and resonates along. The beauty of the tones points beyond – they lift themselves against the starry sky and eternity.

All the concert\’s works are from recent times and refer to a longing back to a more devotional understanding of existence. The music is by Arvo Pärt, the Danes Bent Sørensen and Bernhard Lewkovitch and of the choir\’s Composer in Residence Sven-David Sandström.

The French sisters Katia and Marielle Labéque are the piano\’s response to rock music’s guitar heroes. With an incredibly wide-ranging career, they have gained attention over four decades as the piano duo that plays minimalism, baroque, jazz, flamenco and avant-garde, but whom ultimately master a classical repertoire to perfection. Special instruments have been created and special works have been composed for the duo, who have created their own music production company in Italy where they settled in 1993.

They have been associated with Deutsche Grammophon since 2016, from which four releases are now available. Here the sisters perform works of such different composers as Stravinsky, Glass, Schubert and Bernstein.

When the star duo Faust/Melnikov recorded Beethoven’s violin sonatas in 2009, it led to a Grammy nomination. The German violinist and the Russian pianist have since continued to collaborate and, among other things, have recorded works by Schumann and Brahms at Harmonia Mundi.

Individually, the two musicians have gained a significant reputation as soloists and regularly perform with the world\’s leading orchestras. Last year, Isabelle Faust became affiliated with Mahler Chamber Orchestra as “artistic partner”, but her performances spread across a wide repertoire from baroque to completely new music.

The acclaimed British tenor Mark Padmore was a member of the ensemble last year, which delivered a six-star Messiah in Holmen\’s Church together with Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Now, together with his regular accompanist Julius Drake, he is giving an intimate experience for song lovers in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall for the third time.

The last time this happened, the Danish daily, Information\’s reviewer used unusually great words like “masterful”, “intense feelings” and “incredibly powerful” with respects to the duo\’s performance of masterpieces by Schubert and Fauré. The audience can now look forward to a unique – and masterful – performance of Schumann, Mahler and Brahmslieder.

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Mogens Dahl Concert Hall invites you to a tasty brunch in the most beautiful setting, followed by an enriching concert experience with Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, the hornist David Palmquist and the journalist Adrian Hughes.

It will be an autumn day with indulgence for all the senses – and a whole new way to meet the classical music. Start with a glass of bubbles in our beautiful private courtyard before the brunch entices you inside and the music finally provides new fire to heart and soul.

Mogens Dahl Concert Hall is Denmark\’s only privately owned classical concert hall, which annually holds approx. 150 conferences, meetings, corporate and private parties and approx. 20 concerts and lectures. It is a cultural gem that offers classic chamber concerts, but one which also experiments with the concert form – not least by incorporating fine kitchen in events such as Valentine\’s Day, summer concerts and now this brunch concert.

You are warmly welcome to beautiful and delicious food and saturating romantic tones!

In collaboration with Golden Days, author Bjørn Bredal and Borup Folk High School, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir present a concert in which the music, the song and the living word tell a love story whose focal point is Copenhagen, as Søren Ulrik Thomsen among others describes the city in his sensualized poems.

The music goes a long way with Liebeslieder by Johannes Brahms and sonnets by Claudio Monteverdi. Michael Strunge also appears as a true romantic, when love combined with poetry opens for a cosmic and boundary-exceeding experience – set in Bent Sørensen\’s sparse and transparent chorusing.

Lise de la Salle first received international attention at the age of 16. Gramophone selected the young French woman’s interpretations of Bach and Liszt the ‘Recording of the Month’. A few years later, she was able to add piano concerts in cooperation with the Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles Philharmonics, among others, to her resume. Moreover, to put it mildly, the critics were enthusiastic. Likewise after her concert here with us, where the critic of Kristeligt Dagblad, Jakob Hom, bestowed her with the highest number of stars and wrote: ‘you felt obliged to bend over in the dust due to this combination of authoritative virtuosity and musical depth.’

In the Easter drama, basic emotions and dilemmas are brought together like nowhere else. Treason and transfiguration. The end of the old and the sprouting of the new. The fear of death and darkness must give way to the faith in life and light.  

Like no other composer, Johann Sebastian Bach has been capable of adding colours and depth into this Easter drama. This evening, based on Bach’s celestially beautiful motet in six movements, the ‘Jesu, Meine Freude’, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir presents a concert devoted to Easter, which, with two significant premieres and especially Arvo Pärts’ beloved modern classic, the ‘Berliner Messen’, connects the past to the present in the most beautiful and touching manner.

Contributing:
Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Jakob Lorentzen, church organ
Toke Møldrup, cello
Mogens Dahl, conductor

The Danish String Quartet is very familiar to the audience in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall. We have heard them playing with the clarinettist Martin Fröst, and, obviously, we have heard the quartet, who received the Carl Nielsen Donation in 2011, playing Carl Nielsen. 

However, the quartet is much more than a local, Danish name. From 2013 to 2015, the BBC nominated them “New Generation Artists”, and American and British reviewers have repeatedly emphasised the quartet as being one of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles. Their latest release are works by Thomas Adés, Per Nørgård and Hans Abrahamsen at the legendary ECM.

The Israeli born Pinchas Zukerman arrived in America in 1962, where he performed his studies at Juilliard in New York. A long life as one of the world’s leading violinists has left a very large number of marks, obviously. A discography of more than 100 titles, 2 Grammys (21 nominations) and a flood of awards and distinctions. Zukerman is one of these musicians, who has managed to broaden his activities to cover both his main instrument and the conductor task. In excess, he has found the time and energy to engage himself in the training of the next generation of musicians as well.

Yefim Bronfman grew up in Uzbekistan, but immigrated to Israel at the age of 15 and later on, he became an American citizen. Since then, his performances on the piano has taken him around the world and his musical partners include Zubin Metha, Isaac Stern and Mstislav Rostropovitj.

An exclusive four-course banquet, plenty of singing, dancing accompanied by a charming jazz trio etc. 

Four-course banquet
Music by Brahms, Lehar, Britten and Schönberg among others.

Welcome to a sensuous evening in the name of romance!

At this exclusive event, our guests are invited to an evening of marvellous music experiences, a delicious four-course banquet, finally, a dance floor and jazz lounge with a sparkling cocktail bar.

Among other things, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir presents, along with the pianist Christian Westergaard and Rikke Sanberg, the master of ceremonies, Jacob Beck, as well as selected soloists, the composer Johannes Brahms’ wonderful ‘Liebeslieder’. What might be more appropriate for a Valentine’s evening than a song cycle representing the ultimate eulogy of romantic love?

After dinner, the bar opens and the dancing begins. The in-house jazz trio (Magnus Hjorth, Kristin Korb and Henrik Holst) plays danceable, romantic classics like ‘If I fall in love’, ‘This can’t be love’ and, of course, the wonderful ‘My funny Valentine’ – immortalised by the young Chet Baker.

Banquet and music are both included in the price – either one of them served with love and a smile.

You can buy drinks in the bar, which opens at 6pm.

CANCELLATION:
We are very sorry to inform that the concert with Benedetti / Elsenbroich / Grynyuk trio is canceled due to sudden illness. Your ticket fare (excluding ticketing fees) will be automatically refunded. We hope to see you at any of our upcoming concerts and refers to the rest of the program on this website.

In 2014, Leonidas Kavakos received the ”Artist of the Year” award. It was far from being the first time the Greek violinist were presented with a tangible appreciation of his unique qualities – and nor will it be the last. He will be receiving the Léonie Sonning Music Award 2017 in Danish Radio’s Concert Hall on 12 January following his intimate concert performance in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall, where he was accompanied by Italian Enrico Pace.

Copenhageners get to enjoy a top-of-the-line, international-class Messiah for yet another year with the baroque specialists of UK\’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This time around, they will be joined by world star Mark Padmore on their trip across the North Sea to the Church of Holmen. The renowned tenor launched his music career as a choir singer at King’s College in Cambridge and has since gained recognition as a soloist in Bach\’s oratorios and passions on the biggest scenes worldwide. It will be for the first time that a Danish audience can hear this lyrical tenor sing his core repertoire.

★★★★★
“Scandinavian functionalism meets genuine British baroque”
“This was simple, beautiful and redeeming.”
Thomas Michelsen / Politiken 13/12/2015

★★★★★
“World-famous British baroque ensemble Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment accompanied by Mogens and four fine soloists transformed Handel\’s Messiah into an acoustic feast that left bubbles of pleasure in your body.”
Christine Christiansen / Jyllands-Posten, 13/12/2015

Copenhageners get to enjoy a top-of-the-line, international-class Messiah for yet another year with the baroque specialists of UK\’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This time around, they will be joined by world star Mark Padmore on their trip across the North Sea to the Church of Holmen. The renowned tenor launched his music career as a choir singer at King’s College in Cambridge and has since gained recognition as a soloist in Bach\’s oratorios and passions on the biggest scenes worldwide. It will be for the first time that a Danish audience can hear this lyrical tenor sing his core repertoire.

★★★★★
“Scandinavian functionalism meets genuine British baroque”
“This was simple, beautiful and redeeming.”
Thomas Michelsen / Politiken 13/12/2015

★★★★★
“World-famous British baroque ensemble Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment accompanied by Mogens and four fine soloists transformed Handel\’s Messiah into an acoustic feast that left bubbles of pleasure in your body.”
Christine Christiansen / Jyllands-Posten, 13/12/2015

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen

The two Korean-born sisters, Soo-Jin Hong and Soo-Kyung Hong, and the latter one\’s husband, Jens Elvekjær, embarked on their joint career in Vienna in 1999 and have demonstrated, with numerous concerts in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall, to their home audience in Copenhagen what they have also been praised for internationally: “A fresh and vital approach to the piano trio\’s core repertoire.”

The trio has simultaneously played a pivotal role for promoting new, Danish music abroad. With dedications from Per Nørgård and Bent Sørensen, among others, the ensemble has been among the most distinguished ambassadors of Denmark\’s living chamber music scene.

MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
SØREN JOHANNSEN, organ
MOGENS DAHL, conductor

Life is like a whistle in the wind – a spirit that plays its melodies through human existence. This is why we celebrate All Saint\’s Even with song. We remember our dead, reconcile ourselves with the incomprehensible and celebrate the eternal stillness of the night.

The Casals Quartet

The quartet is Spain\’s first string quartet with major international influence. They have scored triumphs in Wigmore, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw and in a large number of the other classical music hotspots around the world. Something that contributed for real to the launch of their career was the first prize they were awarded at the London International String Quartet Competition in 2000.

The Quartet\’s members reside in Barcelona but are often in Cologne, where they are Quartet in Residence at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz.

The members are: Abel Tomàs, violin – Vera Martínes, violin – Jonathan Brown, viola, – Arnau Tomàs, cello

Violin recital with Sarah Chang

When you start playing the piano at the age of three, get your first violin at the age of four and debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of eight, the future lying ahead of you must be rather exceptional. In other words, Sarah Chang is a genuine child prodigy, who grew into the music in the same natural way as we, others, learn to walk and speak.

As an adult, Sarah Chang\’s reputation has grown, and nowadays, she is one of the world\’s most popular violin soloists, with a multitude of recordings behind her back. (Her first CD at EMI was recorded when she was only ten!) She was born and grew up in the USA where her parents had emigrated from South Korea in the 1970s.

Piano recital with Marc-André Hamelin

“Emperor of the keyboard”
– New York Times.

Marc-André Hamelin is a pianist of a category where it simply abounds with noble titles. But also with references to pure magic. The concerts and recordings of the Canadian pianist

have met with words of praise all over the world. His career started in Montreal and continued in Philadelphia, but

the list of tours of famous festivals and stages he has performed on since includes the entire world. This has also brought him a number of awards. Marc-André Hamelin won the Carnegie Hall competition in 1985, was inducted into the Gramophone “Hall of Fame” in 2015 and has been awarded the lifetime achievement prize by the German Record Critic’s Award.

Lieder with the American bass, Sir Willard White

It took a one-way ticket to New York for Sir Willard White to make the first step from a poor childhood in Kingston, Jamaica, to a life as a world-famous opera singer. White counts Nat King Cole, folk music and the radio as sources of inspiration in his childhood and adolescence. His talent was revealed to the surrounding world at Jamaica\’s conservatory – which was also when the said ticket was purchased by his father.

White studied at Julliard and made his debut in New York at the age of 25. He has since sung at all major opera stages in the world. White has maintained a certain inquisitiveness into more uncommon musical territories side by side with his opera repertoire – and there will be plenty of hints at his childhood imbibed in American folk songs in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall\’s Lied Programme.

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ATHELAS SINFONIETTA
MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
EKKOZONE
MOGENS DAHL, conductor

Athelas Sinfonietta and the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir present a number of mind-expanding works by Per Nørgård for this year\’s Golden Days Festival 70\’s topic. Athelas Sinfonietta and the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir have selected a number of notable works from the era that together pinpoint the dreams of the age and Per Nørgård\’s all-encompassing musical thinking inspired by orientalism, cosmic awareness, fractal theories and psychedelia.

MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
ADRIAN LLOYD HUGHES, narrator
DAVID PALMQUIST, horn
MOGENS DAHL, conductor

When the Nordic summer begins, all senses start vibrating. Notes from Carl Nielsen, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jørgen Jersild, Per Gunnar Petersson, Hugo Alfvén and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, among others, evoke sentiments that ooze of light colours and fragrances, but also of yearning and pain. It is with great knowledge, insight and a charming flair for communication that Adrian Lloyd Hughes guides the audiences through a concert programme featuring the cream of Nordic choir lyrics.

The surroundings of two Danish museums add an extra dimension to both known and unknown pearls from Nordic choir repertoire. It is against the backdrop of high-class architecture and art that the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir invites to a summer reunion where sound, light and speech merge to reinforce each other like never before.

WE BID YOU WELCOME TO A CONCERT EXPERIENCE IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN IN DENMARK\’S SUMMERLAND!

Saturday, 20 August:
Faaborg Museum, 2:30 pm

Saturday, 20 August:
Johannes Larsen Museum, Kerteminde, 5:30 pm

Maria João Pires is a unique artist with a pure and unaffected approach to music. “Poetic, light as air” wrote The Times among other things, about one of her numerous concerts in London. Besides a legendary status as a concert pianist with concerts all over the world, the Portuguese-born pianist has also asserted herself as an influential person in educational and social contexts with workshops for students in Japan, Brazil, Portugal, France and Switzerland. She lends her name to a large and varied discography with solo, chamber music and orchestral recordings at Deutsche Grammophon and Erato and others.

There is almost no end to the praise the 36-year-old Danielle de Niese has received in the world of opera. But her road to a career with great soprano roles on the prestigious opera stages in San Francisco, Hamburg, New York and other cities has been everything but ordinary. She was born in Melbourne, Australia of Sri Lankan parents with European blood in their veins. At the age of nine, she won a talent program on Australian TV, and after her family moved to Los Angeles, she began her career in television, among other things, giving her an Emmy as children\’s program host.

As early as during her teenage years, she appeared in the Los Angeles Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. After private studies and training at Mannes College of Music in New York, her career took off for real. A career, which includes famous lied recitals worldwide.

We have had the pleasure of hearing the brilliant pianist and accompanist Julius Drake several times before, at concerts in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall. Among other things, he has stood side by side with Birgid Steinberger and Mark Padmore here in the concert hall. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and regularly performs on stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, La Scala and Wigmore Hall.

It is with pride that Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir during Easter week can present a gripping beautiful rendition of Easter\’s eternal drama: The Passion of St John in the year 2016. This work is created in close collaboration with world-famous Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström and Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir\’s artistic consultant, Jakob Holtze, who has composed the libretto.

The Chamber Choir premiers the Passion of St. John in Konzerthaus Berlin and at the opening concert during the Bachwochen Festival in Erfurt, and will feature its entire star crew at the Danish premiere in Copenhagen.

Brooklyn Rider is this season closely tied to Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, which it accompanies to Berlin at the world première of Sven-David Sandström\’s The Passion of St John. On the same occasion, the sensational New Yorker quartet can be seen with some of their boundary-pushing repertoire at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

The four musicians are: Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violin; Nicholas Cords, viola; Eric Jacobsen, cello.

Nine Grammys, three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, “Ensemble of the Year” in the USA. There are many tangible signs of the Emerson Quartet\’s triumphal progress since its beginning in New York 1976. In 2013 the first change in the ensemble occurred when Paul Watkins joined in as a cellist. They are touring intensively all over the world and have been receiving phenomenal reviews everywhere.

The quartet includes: Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; Paul Watkins, cello.

In its seventieth season, the Juilliard String Quartet performs around the world. It comes to Mogens Dahl Concert Hall for the fifth time to offer the best of the old and the new world. The quartet\’s legendary quality, according to the New York Times, stems from a very special ability to play contemporary music with the same honour and respect as if it were established classics, and vice versa, to approach old masterpieces with the same excitement and spirit of adventure as if they were brand new works.

The quartet includes: Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes, violin; Roger Tapping, viola; Joel Krosnick, cello.

Handel\’s Messiah

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor: Mogens Dahl

This year, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choirs performs Händel\’s Messiah in cooperation with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Thus, Copenhagen gets to experience a world-class performance of this great masterpiece of the Baroque.

With this new partnership, audiences in Copenhagen can once again look forward to a unique concert as a prelude to the Christmas season.

During the last two decades, the projects of this London-based ensemble have echoed among music lovers all over the world. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is renowned for its use of original instruments and represents, like no other orchestra in the world, innovation and the search for musical boundaries. The Ensemble has worked with conductors such as sir Simon Rattle, Iván Fischer and sir Mark Elder.

”Like the rest of the numerous spectators, I left the Church of Holmen enriched and grateful.” Peter Dürrfeld in Danish daily Kristeligt Dagblad 2013

”The Choir in itself is the focal point of the performance, and their voices are outstanding. Pure, clear and confident.”
Thomas Michelsen in Danish daily Politiken 2012

”A true Messiah of the 21st century.”
– Søren Schauser in Danish daily Berlingske Tidende 2010

Handel\’s Messiah

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor: Mogens Dahl

This year, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choirs performs Händel\’s Messiah in cooperation with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Thus, Copenhagen gets to experience a world-class performance of this great masterpiece of the Baroque.

With this new partnership, audiences in Copenhagen can once again look forward to a unique concert as a prelude to the Christmas season.

During the last two decades, the projects of this London-based ensemble have echoed among music lovers all over the world. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is renowned for its use of original instruments and represents, like no other orchestra in the world, innovation and the search for musical boundaries. The Ensemble has worked with conductors such as sir Simon Rattle, Iván Fischer and sir Mark Elder.

”Like the rest of the numerous spectators, I left the Church of Holmen enriched and grateful.” Peter Dürrfeld in Danish daily, Kristeligt Dagblad 2013

”The Choir in itself is the focal point of the performance, and their voices are outstanding. Pure, clear and confident.”
Thomas Michelsen in Danish daily Politiken 2012

”A true Messiah of the 21st century.”
– Søren Schauser in Danish daily Berlingske Tidende 2010

Mogens Dahl Kammerkor opfører i 2015 Händels Messias i samarbejde med Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Barokkens store mesterværk får dermed en opførelse i København i international klasse.

Anmelderne har fulgt Mogens Dahl Kammerkors messiasopførelser siden begyndelsen i 2008, og der er ikke blevet sparet på lovprisningerne:

”I lighed med det øvrige talstærke publikum forlod jeg Holmens Kirke beriget og taknemlig.”
Peter Dürrfeld i Kristeligt Dagblad 2013

”Koret i sig selv er kernen i opførelsen, og stemmerne er fremragende. Rene, klare og sikre.”
Thomas Michelsen i Politiken 2012

Se klip fra opførelsen her.

”En rigtig Messias af det 21. århundrede”
– Søren Schauser, Berlingske Tidende 2010

Med det nye samarbejde kan det københavnske publikum endnu engang se frem til en unik koncertoplevelse som indledning til julen.

Igennem de seneste to årtier har det londonbaserede ensembles projekter givet genlyd blandt musikelskere verden over. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment er berømmet for sin brug af originale instrumenter og står som ingen andre orkestre i verden for nytænkning og afsøgning af musikalske grænser. Ensemblet har samarbejdet med dirigenter som sir Simon Rattle, Iván Fischer og sir Mark Elder.

Danish Nikolaj Znaider is one of the most sought-after violinists in the world – in the orchestral setting as well as for chamber music. During his stop in Copenhagen, the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall will be the place for a close encounter with the violin magic of Znaider.

The leading orchestras in the world call Znaider. Znaider is the returning star soloist with the philharmonic orchestras of Vienna, Cleveland and Los Angeles as well as a long line of other top ensembles. He regularly goes on world tours as a violinist but also finds the time to pursue a career as a conductor where he works with: The symphony orchestras of Munich and Birmingham, the Halle Chamber Orchestra, the philharmonic orchestra of French Radio and many other.

Znaider\’s accompanist is the acclaimed American-Latvian pianist, Robert Kulek, with whom he has performed many times in connection with international concert tours.

She got her first cello at the age of four, played Tchaikovsky\’s rococo variations in public at 13 and stood on the stage in Carnegie Hall at 15. Now, at 33, she travels the world and will be visiting the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall to perform four outstanding cello sonatas.

In 2011, American Alisa Weilerstein was the first cellist in 20 years to sign a contract with the renowned classical record company, Decca. Their first project was the recording of the cello concerts by Elgar and Elliot Carter with Daniel Barenboim in Berlin. In the 2014-2015 season, she has 15 bookings with the philharmonic orchestras of places such as New York, Toronto, Chicago, Philadelphia, Paris, Warsaw and Berlin – to mention a few items from her busy schedule.

Inon Barnatan is born in Israel but lives in New York.

In 2014 he became the first \’Artist in Association\’ at The New York Philharmonic. His recent album Darknesse Visible was listed as one of the of Best classical recordings of 2012 by The New York Times. Barnatan has received many prestigious awards, such as The Avery Fischer Career Grant in 2009 and The Andrew Wolf Memorial Award.

”The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (Gospel of John, verse 1:5)

At this year\’s traditional halloween concert, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir will celebrate the light of hope that is visible in darkness only. With music by Weise, Grieg and Sven-David Sandström, the program progresses from the light of morning to the fire of evening and concludes with the stunning Requiem by Gabriel Fauré which describes the eternal light and the singing of angles.

The Norwegian piano virtuoso, Leif Ove Andsnes, explores all aspects of the piano literature with a concert program that goes from Finnish to French. The Grand Piano will trickle, thunder and sing.

Despite his international star status, Leif Ove Andsnes is known for his quiet and humble personality. But behind the calm exterior lies both powerful and extremely poetic piano playing. His latest project, ’The Beethoven Journey’, has taken him through 55 towns in 22 countries and more than 150 performances. His Sony Classical recording of Beethoven\’s five piano concertos has already become a reference for these works.

Together with guests from the international chamber music scene, Trio con Brio creates a varied concert with three very different masterpieces.

At this concert, Trio con Brio, which we have kept a close eye on over the last decade, is accompanied by three brilliant Apollon Musagete Quartet musicians: violist Tatjana Masurenko, cellist Torleif Thedéen and pianist Artur Pizzaro. The concert is part of the Copenhagen Chamber Music Festival 2015.

In cooperation with author and commentator, Knud Romer, the Golden Days Festival and the Ekkozone Percussion Ensemble, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir presents a concert with highlights from 500 years of German music and poetry. A musical journey with Knud Romer as both your curator and flamboyant travel guide.

Die Schöne Müllerin is the story of a brisk young miller\’s assistant and a beautiful young girl in the luxuriant countryside. Bo Skovhus awakens breathtaking feelings in a song cycle that ends fatally in the cold water.

Bo Skovhus
Throughout his long career, Bo Skovhus has been among the best of the best in the world. His profound knowledge – and great love – of the lied repertoire has made him one of the most respected artists in the world within this field.

Bo Skovhus has been a permanent member of the Wiener Staatsoper and has performed on all the known opera stages of the world. At this concert, he is accompanied by the brilliant accompanist, Stefan Vladar from Austria – like so many times before.

This ticket is valid for five unique chamber musical treats at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall.

Bo Skovhus, baritone. Stefan Vladar, piano
Sunday September 13. 2015 8.00 PM

Trio con Brio Copenhagen with international guests
Thursday September 17. 2015 8.00 PM

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Saturday October 31. 2015 8.00 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello. Inon Barnatan, piano
Tuesday November 10. 2015 8.00 PM

Nikolaj Znaider, violin. Robert Kulek, piano
Sunday November 22. 2015 8.00 PM

Mozart wrote six quartets in honour the Haydn String Quartet grand old man. The Artemis Quartet will be delivering one of these Vienna classical masterpieces, bubbling with crispy, airy Dvořák and presenting new music by Peteris Vasks.

The Artemis Quartet
The quartet was established in 1989 in Lübeck with mentors among the greatest names: The Juilliard, the Emerson and the Alban Berg quartets. Today the quartet is a world name based in Berlin. They have received numerous prizes such as Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or and ECHO-Klassik. Many contemporary composers continuously create new art in collaboration with the Artemis Quartet.

The Danish String Quartet will be giving us all the number ones. The first string quartets by recent recipient of the Sonning Prize, Adés, and by three of our greatest Danish composers.

The Danish String Quartet
Asbjørn Nørgaard
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin
Frederik Øland

The four men of one of Denmark’s most renowned chamber ensembles introduce themselves with disarming humour on their homepage. “We are simply your friendly neighbourhood string quartet with an above average growth of beard.” Add to that that the quartet received the Carl Nielsen Grant in 2011 and was appointed “New Generation Artist 2013-15″ by the BBC. In combination this reflects an all-round musical breadth, recognized around the world for its exemplary quality and vitality.

We know that Trio con Brio delivers every time. It is one of the ensembles we have followed the closest, and this time they will bring an interesting collocation of Vienna classics and new Nordic music.

About Trio Con Brio Copenhagen
In January Trio Con Brio Copenhagen, as the first ensemble, will receive the prestigious P2 Prize in recognition of their remarkable artistic achievements for chamber music in Denmark for more than 10 years.

In its reasoning Radio Denmark says, “They have made works by Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms into vivacious art for a modern audience, and at the same time they have reached an international audience with new Danish music by Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen and Bent Sørensen.”

At Mogens Dahl Concert Hall we are proud to be able to say that we have followed them the whole way, and we are looking forward to the coming ten years with the ensemble.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir 
Cello: Toke Møldrup
Conductor: Mogens Dahl

On the programme for the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir’s recurring celebration of Maundy Thursday we present Sven-David Sandström’s pioneering work NORDIC MASS. The work celebrates Easter in its tribute to life and nature’s overwhelming greatness. At the centre is the individual human being’s search for meaning in the moments of closeness in everyday life, and in the sun light that suddenly breaks through a winter-dark sky.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has presented their audience with a series of major works of church music in the popular Easter concerts on Maundy Thursday. A selection of this music can be found on the critically acclaimed CD SACRED NORTH; also NORDIC MASS / NORDISK MESSE is now available n a CD from ExLibris.

On this occasion the choir is expanded to 18 singers.

Toke Møldrup will contribute to the work’s special timbre with his cello’s warmth. This young Danish cello phenomenon is solo cellist in Copenhagen Phil at teaches at the Royal Danish Conservatory. His resume already includes concerts at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Konzethaus Berlin.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir 
Cello: Toke Møldrup
Conductor: Mogens Dahl

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir presents Sven-David Sandström’s pioneering work NORDIC MASS in both Denmark and Sweden. The work celebrates Easter in its tribute to life and nature’s overwhelming greatness. At the centre is the individual human being’s search for meaning in the moments of closeness in everyday life, and in the sun light that suddenly breaks through a winter-dark sky.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has presented their audience with a series of major works of church music in the popular Easter concerts. A selection of this music can be found on the critically acclaimed CD SACRED NORTH; also NORDIC MASS / NORDISK MESSE is now available n a CD from ExLibris.

On this occasion the choir is expanded to 18 singers.

Toke Møldrup will contribute to the work’s special timbre with his cello’s warmth. This young Danish cello phenomenon is solo cellist in Copenhagen Phil at teaches at the Royal Danish Conservatory. His resume already includes concerts at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Konzethaus Berlin.

British tenor Mark Padmore will be visiting the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall with a Lied programme which will demonstrate what the human voice is capable of: Death-longing and hovering dreams, but also earthly happiness is expressed in virtuosi singing excellently accompanied by Julius Drake on the piano. Among others, we will hear Schubert’s “Wiegenlied” and Fauré’s “Clair de Lune”.

About Mark Padmore and Julius Drake
Mark Padmore trained at King’s College in Cambridge where baroque music became the doorway to his career. His world fame was achieved in the main through his interpretations of Bach oratorio and passion parts at the very greatest venues. Padmore is in the world elite among lyric tenors, and this evening we will hear him in the company of the excellent accompanist Julius Drake, who is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Melodies burning into you with moving simplicity and developing into variations containing both pain and power, is one of the themes of Jeremy Denk’s piano programme.

About Jeremy Denk
In 2014 Jeremy Denk was honoured with the Avery Fischer Award for his “unique contribution to the world of music and for his artistic unsurpassedness”. He was singled out by New York Times as “one of the most well-articulated and thoughtful interpreters of his generation”. Recognition has been his companion throughout his career, but reached a climax after his recording of the Goldberg Variations in 2013.

This ticket is valid for five unique chamber musical treats at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall.

Jeremy Denk, piano
Thursday February 5, 2015, 8 P.M.

Julius Drake & Mark Padmore
Monday February 23, 2015, 8 P.M.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Monday April 13, 2015, 8 P.M.

The Danish String Quartet
Wednesday April 29, 2015, 8 P.M.

The Artemis Quartet
Tuesday May 12, 2015, 8. P.M.

Our season card gives you access to all 5 concerts in the autumn season 2014.

You will save approx. 20% per concert when purchasing our season card. Our season card is valid for following 5 chamber concerts:

Thur Sep. 18. – Trio con Brio Copenhagen – with international friends

Sun Sep 28. – Ivo Pogorelich, piano

Mon Oct 27. – Angela Hewitt, piano

Mon Nov 10. – Casals Kvartetten

Sun Nov 30. – Christophe Pregardién, tenor & Julius Drake, piano

Last year’s successful constellation with the Danish String Quartet will not be a one-time show.

The quartet, supplemented with a number of other excellent musicians, suits the choir’s flexible phrasing and springy dynamics so well that it calls for a repeat performance of Handel’s oratorio in this version.

Our goal is to infuse this beloved work with a new vitality and extra dynamics to make it a Messiah that will stand out.

“The choir in itself is the core of the performance, and the voices are excellent – true, clear and secure.”
– Thomas Michelsen in Politiken 2012

Last year’s successful constellation with the Danish String Quartet will not be a one-time show.

The quartet, supplemented with a number of other excellent musicians, suits the choir’s flexible phrasing and springy dynamics so well that it calls for a repeat performance of Handel’s oratorio in this version.

Our goal is to infuse this beloved work with a new vitality and extra dynamics to make it a Messiah that will stand out.

“The choir in itself is the core of the performance, and the voices are excellent – true, clear and secure.”
– Thomas Michelsen in Politiken 2012

Christoph Prégardien has a prodigious number of musical releases behind him at all the great labels. His career has taken him far and wide with great parts in Mozart’s operas and as a soloist in Bach’s oratorios. But above all, he has won his reputation as an interpreter of the German Lied tradition.His numerous recordings in this genre has awarded him numerous prizes – from the German Music Critics’s Prize to Cannes’ Classical Award.When Prégardien presents a programme consisting of Schubert’s Winterreise, the cycle is in the hands of an experienced master who will be tending to the wanderer’s painful journey towards death.Wilhelm Müller’s poems move through a frozen winter landscape where tears freeze and the cock crows his warnings when spring evokes frisky dreams. The complete cycle is a dramatic tale of the rejected poet that has to give up his dreams of love.