Monthly Archive: March 2009

RUED LANGGAARD: Complete Symphonies (1 to 16); Orchestral Works: Drapa (On the Death of Grieg); Sphinx; Hvidbjerg-Drapa; Fanfares for Orchestra; Res absùrda!? – various perf./Danish Nat. Sym./Thomas Dausgaard – Da Capo (7 SACDs)

RUED LANGGAARD: Complete Symphonies (1 to 16); Orchestral Works: Drapa (On the Death of Grieg); Sphinx; Hvidbjerg-Drapa; Fanfares for Orchestra; Res absùrda!? – various perf./Danish Nat. Sym./Thomas Dausgaard – Da Capo (7 SACDs)

Langgaard’s cycle of symphonies presents the listener with a wide variety of styles – from the large, remarkably mature and astonishing First Symphony, to the terse modernist short works and the backward-looking romantic ones from his middle age.

Musique Francais = AUBER: Fra Diavolo Overture; GOUNOD: Faust–excerpts; SAINT-SAENS: Carnival of the Animals–4 excerpts; Samson et Dalila–Bacchanale; ROUSSEL: Bacchus et Ariane Suite No. 2 – Hermann Scherchen/Gibson/Beecham/Martinon – HDTT

You’d best exert your French accent for this glowing assemblage of Gallic fare, which ranges from the relatively conservative figure of Gounod to the more exotic languor of Saint-Saens and Roussel.

Audio News for March 27, 2009

Home Electronics Cost Up to 30% Less in Korea; Russound AC Distribution System; Denon Offers Free Blu-ray Player with Receiver Purchase; CEA/CEDIA Bulletin on Home Theater Audio Design; Sony Adds Two Blu-ray Decks