The Danish composer Peter Heise (1830-79) was a master of writing for voice. In his quartets and choral songs for male voices we meet Romanticism in it's clearest form with songs about women, art, nature and his native country. The gentle, pure tone of the music is excellently handled by the male voices of the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and Choir and not least by the conductor Michael Schonwandt, who has a lifelong love of Danish Golden Age music.

Tracklist:

Introduktion Og Vals (Introduction And Waltz)
Tonernes Flugt (The Flight Of The Notes)
Tre Katte (Three Cats)
Jylland Mellem Tvende Have (Jutland Bounded By Two Oceans)
Til Bacchus (To Bacchus)
Afsked Med Vinteren (Farewell To Winter)
Det Vagnende Forar (The Wakening Spring)
Forar Og Sommer (Spring And Summer): No. 1. I Foraret (In Spring)
Forar Og Sommer (Spring And Summer): No. 2. Den Vilde Rosenbusk (The Wild Rose-Bush)
Forar Og Sommer (Spring And Summer): No. 3. Sommervise (Summer Song)
Forar Og Sommer (Spring And Summer): No. 4. Sommerlyst (Summer Gaiety)
Den Vilde Rosenbusk (The Wild Rose-Bush)
I Skoven (In The Forest)
Det Er Efterar (It's Autumn)
Sigojnernes Sang Ved Deres Dronnings Grav (The Gypsies' Song At Their Queen's Grave)
Ved Den Dunkle Brond (At The Dark Well)
Borgjomfruen (The Castle Maiden)
De Smukke (The Beauties)
Bryllupssang (Wedding Song)
For Danmark (For Denmark)
Danmarks Kaempegrave (Denmark's Giants' Graves)
Gravsang Af Shaekspeares Cymbeline (Dirge From Shakespeare's Cymbeline)

UPC: 747313159864
Label: Dacapo
Release Date: 11.19.13
Format: CD

Danish National Choir - Songs for Male Voices (CD)