This release features a brand-new recording of the 3rd Piano Concerto by Danish composer Herman D. Koppel performed by leading Danish female pianist Rikke Sandberg. The South Jutland Orchestra is her chosen partner and the conductor the brilliant Bo Holten, himself a fine composer. The album has also solo piano music by Koppel including the first recording of works by the composer's grandson Benjamin Koppel, - fascinating works for Alto Saxophone and piano. One of the major new releases for 2020! Rikke Sandberg has played solo concerts across the Nordic countries, Europe and the United States in Alice Tully Hall, Concertgebouw and Musikhalle Hamburg etc. And she has worked with names like Sabine Meyer, Phillippe Berrod, Nikolaj Znaider, Radek Barborak and Vincent Lucas and with many of the Nordic regions greatest soloists and concert masters. She is an artistic director of Tisvilde and Langvad Classical Music Festivals and she has, in addition to her solo albums with works by Brahms and Rachmaninov and Anders Koppel's Double Concerts for Piano and Saxophone with the DR Symphony Orchestra, also recorded film music for "Afgrunden" with DR The "Rebus" orchestra, "Rebus" Mad Cows Sing, "Symbiosis" with Tanja Zapolski and Liszt 2nd Piano Concert and Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concert with Luxembourg Philharmonia.

Tracklist:

Piano Concerto No. 3, Opus 45: I. Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 45: II. Andante
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 45: III. Rondo - Presto
Pastorale: Allegretto
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: I. Andantino
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response I
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: II. Giocoso
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response II
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: III. Dolente
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response III
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: IV. Andantino
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response IV
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: V. Poco Allegro
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response V
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: VI. Andantino
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response VI
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: VII. Allegro
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response VII
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: VIII. Allegretto
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response VIII
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: IX. Allegro
Nine Dialogical Responses For Alto Saxophone And Piano: Dialogical Response IX
Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20: X. Allegretto (Theme With Variations)

UPC: 5709499856000
Label: Danacord Records
Release Date: 2.7.20
Format: CD

Koppel / Sandberg / Holten - Playground (CD)