Dacapo

Well-crafted and attractive music written in a conservative manner, beautifully played [NB]

Insights that reveal qualities in the music unimagined in earlier recordings [NB]

(Déjà Review) Brilliantly orchestrated and balanced – moving forward in a blizzard of detail; the very antithesis of drab [RB]

Performances that challenge the only other available recording [EJW]

A third Dacapo cycle of Holmboe’s string quartets repay close listening [JW]

(Déjà Review) A rapturous masterpiece flanked by a pugnaciously enigmatic brevity and a euphoric example of Schumann-dominated nostalgia [RB]

A great achievement, recommended for those who want something off the beaten track [GF]

(Déjà Review) Phenomenally relaxed and efficient technique on the most challenging of organs [CB]

(Déjà Review) Anyone who loves the symphonies will find these works as satisfying as the larger pieces. They are easy to listen to, once the Holmboe idiom has been assimilated, and will repay the listener ten times over [JP]

(Déjà Review) These symphonies are examples of Bentzon’s metamorphic style in which the voices of Bartok, Simpson and Shostakovich nudge and jostle [RB]

(Déjà Review) The score is bright, carries warm harmonies and is fast moving with enjoyable themes, and catchy motifs [RW]

(Déjà Review) Langgaard was the true heir of Wagner and Strauss [TB]

Fine performances of mildly enjoyable works may win the composer new admirers [EJW]

There is, unfortunately, little if anything that is distinctive in much of his music [JW]

An entertaining, historically interesting tribute to Lumbye and his contemporaries, played with precision and admirable elan [GF]

A slow-moving meditative work based on an unorthodox gospel

(Déjà Review) Excellently performed, perfectly recorded, and played on a delightful instrument [KM]

A most welcome, well played release, not to be missed [HC]

A strange triptych of previously unrecorded works by Paul von Klenau [JW]

Interesting and important disc from a musical, historical and social angle [JV]

These glowing performances testify that Holmboe is a leading figure in twentieth-century music [GH]

The Nightingale Quartet continues its admirable Holmboe cycle [JW]

Very good, but not outstanding; Dausgaard’s 2007 recording remains the benchmark here [DM]