APRIL 2026 NEW ON NAXOS
Danish Chamber Players © Jesper Van
New Nordic Pocket Concertos GERSTRØM • JÄRVENTAUSTA • KOLSTAD RASMUSSEN • RUDERS • TARRODI • VAKA Niklas Walentin Danish Chamber Players These seven new Nordic violin concertos were all composed for soloist Niklas Walentin and the Danish Chamber Players. Though compact in length, they range widely in expressive power. Some have nature themes – the sonic portrayal of the Arctic, the fragility of glaciers. One is a homage to Ukraine, another is a Swedish Four Seasons , while others embrace folkloric elements. Each concerto is to be performed in a circle, intended to give an immersive cinematic feel, enveloping the listener in a landscape of sounds. Key features: • World premiere recordings of seven commissioned works by seven different composers, one for each of the Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, plus the Faroe Islands and Greenland for the Danish Chamber Players (Ensemble Storstrøm) and Niklas Walentin. •
Conductor Anne Marie Granau was recipient of the 2014 Grethe Kolbe Mindelegat – she has recorded the music of Kasper Rofelt on Naxos 6.220716 with the Danish Chamber Players: ‘The Danish Chamber Players’ compendium of chamber works by Kasper Rofelt, Dichotomy, is a cleansing listen, full of the composer’s
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Playing time: 1:32:36 Release date: 10 Apr 2026
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combination of shapely lyricism and ascetic argumentation, often thriving on a combination of opposites’ ( Gramophone ).
Tracklist
Andrea TARRODI (b. 1981) 1 – 4 The Four Seasons (2022)
Veronique VAKA (b. 1986)
0 Erda Concerto for two violins and ensemble (2024) Sunleif RASMUSSEN (b. 1961) ! – # Rósan í Vetrarljósi / Die Rose im Winterlicht (2024) Joel JÄRVENTAUSTA (b. 1995) $ – ( Songs, Games & Dances (2024)
Arnannguaq GERSTRØM (b. 1977) 5 Broken Inua (2022) Aksel KOLSTAD (b. 1981) 6 Apollo – The Ukrainian Violin Concerto (2022) Poul RUDERS (b. 1949) 7 – 9 Pocket Concerto (2021)
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