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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

An evocative concert which seeks tranquility and silence.

An evocative concert which seeks tranquility and silence.

At the turn of the millennium, the Strad Magazine harboured no doubts: The Casals Quartet from Madrid had made their impression as one of the great new string quartets. “A quartet for the new millennium if I ever heard one,” they wrote. The ensemble was awarded first prizes both in London and Hamburg, and it has toured Wigmore, Carnegie, Concertgebouw, the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonics and all the other great venues.

This is the first time that a Spanish string quartet makes a proper international impact, and this accomplished ensemble has accompanied the Spanish royals on diplomatic journeys on several occasions, and it goes without saying that they have performed at the royal palace in Madrid.

There is a drop of Spanish sweetness in the programme in the form of Granados’ romance after the intermission, and in combination with Schubert, Shostakovich and Ravel it will be a complete quartet evening.

It will be a pianistic charter trip on special class when no less a pianist than world-famed Angela Hewitt sets out for the sunny Iberian peninsula. As artist in residence she has made a delightful impression with her Bach interpretations, among them the Art of the Fuge, but now she is bound for more southerly destinations.A selection of Hewitt’s favourite Scarlatti sonatas will be woven into this piano evening which will have considerable more of a South European temperament than our artist in residence has offered her large audience in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall before. Look forward to an evening of Granados, Scarlatti, Albéniz and de Falla.

Pogorelich is a living piano legend by virtue of his unique interpretations of the principal pieces of the piano literature – renowned is the incident in 1980 when Martha Argerich quit the Warsaw Chopin Competition jury as a protest when Pogorelich did not win. “He is a genius,” was her verdict.That is what you still hear whenever Pogorelich performs, be it solo or with leading symphony orchestras. His playing is surpassingly brilliant and can be enjoyed in innumerable recordings from, among others, Deutsche Grammophon.At Mogens Dahl’s he will be playing feisty Liszt, languishing Schumann as well as audience favourites by Stravinsky and Brahms.

Riebnitzsky will show us the faces of war as she herself met them in Afghanistan: the soldier on mission, the grown woman and the school girl who all in their own ways defy Taleban suppression. All through the piece a hope is shining that the sacrifices born have not been in vain, and that the conflict in the end may lead to peace.The concert also contains pieces by Gurney, Elgar, Cashmore and Poulenc.Before the concert there will be an opportunity to hear Riebnitzsky and Tjørnhøj in a conversation about the genesis of this significant new work. The concert will mark the conclusion of the 2014 Golden Days Festival, the theme of which this year is 1914.It is a memorial concert for all those who lost their lives in conflicts over the last hundred years, a solemn concert of moving and stirringly beautiful music, born of the hope for peace yet marked by the reality of war.

A musical love story by an enamoured 17 years old Shostakovich, and music by an equally young Ravel supplemented with Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in A major.The concert is part of the Copenhagen Chamber Music Festival 2014 in which Trio Con Brio Copenhagen forms the artistic leadership. The trio has celebrated numerous triumphs at the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall as well as on innumerable  tours abroad. On this occasion they will be accompanied by the outstanding musicians from the Modigliani String Quartet, viola player Tatjana Masurenko, cellist Julian Steckel and pianist Marianna Shirinyan.Dvoraks klaverkvintet bliver spillet af: Soo-Jin Hong, 1. vn., Alexander Sitkovetsky, 2. vn, Tatjana Masurenko, bratsch, Julian Steckel, cello og Marianna Shirinyan, klaver. I 1. halvdel er der ingen ændringer. Alexander Sitkovetsky er kommet til som ekstra violinnavn, og Julian Steckel afløser Enrico Dindo.

The French Embassy to Copenhagen resides in the beautiful, classical Palais Thott at Kongens Nytorv. During the Golden Days Festival the doors will be opened to their elegant “belle etage” in an exclusive event in which the public will have a unique chance to let itself be absorbed in the French vanguard’s witches\’s cauldron of sensuous pleasure, aesthetics and artistic experiences.French master chef Daniel Letz together with the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir will recreate a French Salon atmosphere anno 1914 with the wonderful, decadent music of the time, ballet sequences inspired by Diaghilev’s renowned Ballet Russes, champagne and French delicacies.We invite you to an unforgettable comprehensive experience for all the five senses, a unique event open to an exclusive audience, a charming journey back to the traces of a lost era.

Concerts with Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir Flying Squad
Carina Tybjerg, Merete LaursenJakob Skjoldborg, Emil Ritter
\’Nordic Summer\’
– Music by Nielsen, Lange-Müller, Gade, Ring, Taube, Alfvén and others

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at. 12 Red Cross Køge – Køge Hospital
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at. 20:00, Red Cross, Copenhagen – Brøndsalen, Frederiksberg
Friday, August 22, 2014 at. 14:30, Red Cross, Søllerød / Vedbaek – Gl. Holte Church
Sunday, August 24, 2014 at. 13:30, Red Cross, Albertslund – Joint house, Capellavænget

A newly composed mass on Nordic natural phenomena.This world premiere with the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir combines forces with the Swedish Nobel literature laureate Tomas Tranströmer and the composer Sven-David Sandström.The Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir is at the forefront of carrying on and further developing the unique Nordic a cappella tradition, and Sven-David Sandström has distinguished himself as a composer of major choral works.The new monumental mass focuses on the rugged Nordic countryside and the prevailing human quest for identity and meaning. It follows the traditional structure of the mass to texts reflecting the life experiences of modern humankind.Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 ‘because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality’. Through a selection of his poetry Nordic Mass describes an existence in which truths may no longer be taken for granted, and in which people must often foray into the borderlands of loneliness in order to find their roots.The work is premiered in Bergen and will be performed on an extensive Nordic tour including a concert in the Swedish Capital and this concert in Copenhagen.

A newly composed mass on Nordic natural phenomena.This world premiere with the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir combines forces with the Swedish Nobel literature laureate Tomas Tranströmer and the composer Sven-David Sandström.The Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir is at the forefront of carrying on and further developing the unique Nordic a cappella tradition, and Sven-David Sandström has distinguished himself as a composer of major choral works.The new monumental mass focuses on the rugged Nordic countryside and the prevailing human quest for identity and meaning. It follows the traditional structure of the mass to texts reflecting the life experiences of modern humankind.Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 ‘because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality’. Through a selection of his poetry Nordic Mass describes an existence in which truths may no longer be taken for granted, and in which people must often foray into the borderlands of loneliness in order to find their roots.The work is premiered in Bergen and will be performed on an extensive Nordic tour including this concert in the Swedish Capital.

In this world premiere the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir combines forces with the Swedish Nobel literature laureate Tomas Tranströmer and the composer Sven-David Sandström.

The Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir from Denmark is at the forefront of carrying on and further developing the unique Nordic a cappella tradition, and Sven-David Sandström has distinguished himself as a composer of major choral works.

The new monumental mass focuses on the rugged Nordic countryside and the prevailing human quest for identity and meaning. It follows the traditional structure of the mass to texts reflecting the life experiences of modern humankind.

Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 ‘because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality’. Through a selection of his poetry Nordic Mass describes an existence in which truths may no longer be taken for granted, and in which people must often foray into the borderlands of loneliness in order to find their roots.

After the work is premiered in Bergen it will be performed on an extensive Nordic tour.

Martin Fröst, clarinet – Frederik Øland, violin – Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin – Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola – Frederik Schøyen Sjölin, cello

Johnny Gandelsman, violin – Colin Jacobsen, violin – Nicholas Cords, viola – Eric Jacobsen, cello The New York based ensemble has been praised as the future of chamber music, no less. One paper wrote that they have the energy of young rock stars in their re-launching of classical music, while simultaneously celebrating the music as is.Hear the young star ensemble play Schubert’s Piano Movement with its sweet and singable passages, followed by Glass’ 2nd String Quartet with the well-known Glassian simplicity in addition to great beauty.Several of the most exiting contemporary composers have composed for Brooklyn Rider. Among them Russian-American Lev Zhurbin, also known by his artist’s name of Ljova. Hear his tribute to Roma musician Nicola Neacşu. Languishing gipsy inspiration flourishing everywhere.Bartok’s quartet is tough and harsh. In glimpses, like for instance four minutes into the first movement, the music changes to soft and peaceful harmony. Three miniatures by Colin Jacobsen go far afield. There is an Arabian moonshine in addition to rhythmic ingredients from pop and rock music, soft as well as spicy scents of flower, and fiery cascades in a fabulous play with the string quartet’s range of sound possibilities.“Brooklyn Rider is re-creating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” – National Public Radio

Arvo Pärt: The Passion of St. John

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Conductor, Mogens Dahl

Angela Hewitt
”She seems to me the complete performer”
– The Sunday Times

“Andsnes has entered an elite circle of pianistic stardom. … When he sits in front of the keyboard… extraordinary things happen.”
– New York Times

Joseph Lin, violin – Ronald Copes, violin – Joel Krosnick, cello –  Roger Tapping, viola.

Just because a good thing has become a tradition, it doesn’t have to a mindless repetition of past successes. This is a maxim we take seriously when we this year will be doing Händel’s The Messiah with a different orchestra, the Danish String Quartet. The highly acclaimed ensemble will be enlarged with other excellent musicians who will match the quartet’s timbre and style. Their chamber-musical approach will suit the Chamber Choir’s flexible phrasing and elastic dynamics perfectly.

Our goal is to add new vitality and extra dynamics to this beloved piece, making it a Messiah that will stand out.

Just because a good thing has become a tradition, it doesn’t have to a mindless repetition of past successes. This is a maxim we take seriously when we this year will be doing Händel’s The Messiah with a different orchestra, the Danish String Quartet. The highly acclaimed ensemble will be enlarged with other excellent musicians who will match the quartet’s timbre and style. Their chamber-musical approach will suit the Chamber Choir’s flexible phrasing and elastic dynamics perfectly.

Our goal is to add new vitality and extra dynamics to this beloved piece, making it a Messiah that will stand out.

Bach’s achievement of compositional magnificence, the Art of the Fugue, is often heard played on the organ or the piano. Here the first fugue, the Contrapunctus no. 1, unfolds in a completely new way in the hands of the quartet. Each part is given full attention by its instrument and can be phrased completely freely into its interwoven context.Apollo Musagete also introduces the audience to one of Beethoven’s unavoidable string quartets and the Czech temperament of Dvořák.Apollo Musagete QuartetThe Greek god Apollo was given the epithet of Musagetes as the leader of the nine muses. The goddesses embodied inspiration for music, singing, dancing, poetry and story telling, plus astronomy and geometry.Thus the name of the Apollo Musagete Quartet indicate a broad artistic outlook. And that is how they work. Both classical and completely new repertoire is on the ensemble’s list of achievements. Further, they have worked with rhythmic singer Tori Amos.The BBC brought the quartet into focus last year just as they visited Mogens Dahl Concert Hall.The amazing Polish quartet still holds the honour of being the “New Generation Artists”.Programme:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Contrapunctus no. 1 from Art of the FugueLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): String Quartet no. 8 in E minor, op. 59/2 (Razumovsky 2)Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904 ): String Quartet no. 11 in C minor, op. 61

No-one can betoken a stringent fugue like Beethoven and only seconds later dissolve this favourite form of the Baroque into classical Viennese charm. In the first movement of his piano trio he introduces the cello, them the violin and finally the piano. A succession and a prioritization that flows to and fro in this piece from 1808.With quarter tones and striking piano chords Copland introduces us to both dancing and more sinister passages with melodic material inspired by Jewish folk tunes. The listener is never in doubt of the serious background of Copland’s music. With great empathy he depicts the harsh and often tragic fate of the Jewish people.In the Shostakovich we are met by delicate flageolets in the cello. A hymn-like melody slowly unfolds to a melancholy fugue. The music was written after the death of a close friend and in the light of the horrific reports about the holocaust that finally reached the public in 1944.Trio WandererThis years ensemble in residence at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall makes audiences sit up and take notice in concert halls all over the world, be it at the Philharmonics of Berlin, at Wigmore Hall, La Scala or opera houses and intimate stages in the US, Japan or South America.Their Copland and Shostakovich CD has received enthusiastic reviews. David Hurwitz writes in Classics Today that their recording will be the new benchmark for these pieces. “Holy cow,” he exclaims, “this is some terrific chamber music playing! In fact, there is no finer version available of Shostakovich’s epic and tragic Op. 67.”The three members of the trio are all graduates from the Conservatoire de Paris.Programme:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Vitebsk: Study on a Jewish Theme. Piano TrioDmitri Sjostakovitj (1906-1975): Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67

Sacred choir music has been a unifying thread in the activities of the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir since they released their highly praised CD Sacred North in 2008. Out of the almost inexhaustible treasure trough of church music for this programme we have chosen a number of ethereal pieces, that all invite to immersion and let us feel a hint of the Great Mystery.

The concert takes place on All Saints’ Day, when we remember departed friends and relatives. The baroque architecture of Christians Kirke will be the beautiful setting for a concert where we look inward and let the strains take our souls towards heaven.

Programme:
Henryk M. Gorecki (1933-2010): Totus Tuus
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): O Magnum Mysterium
Henryk M. Gorecki (1933-2010): Three Lullabies
Morten Lauridsen (1943- ): O Magnum Mysterium
Olivier Messiaen (1908-92): Le Banquet Célèste, for organ
Ola Gjeillo (1978- ): Tota Pulchra Es
Olivier Messiaen (1908-92): O Sacrum Convivium
Henryk M. Gorecki (1933-2010): Amen