@jenscornelius.bsky.social
Classical music journalist, Denmark. Radio presenter/producer (DR). Author and editor of music books.
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider will be performing Gade's world hit (known as "Tango Jalousie" in Denmark) www.drkoncerthuset.dk/kalender/202...
07.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0100 years ago, Jacob Gade's "Jealousy Tango" was premiered. It's the most performed piece of music ever written by a Dane! Tonight, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra is celebrating Gade and his tango, and a new book on Jacob Gade has just been published: multivers.dk/product/jaco...
07.08.2025 10:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I know there are other options, but they're huge downgrades from the generous and intuitive app.
21.07.2025 21:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A great loss! My favourite radio app has been blocked here in Denmark. BBC Sounds should remain available worldwide, showcasing why the BBC is still the gold standard in public service broadcasting.
21.07.2025 19:11 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Important new release:
Works from the modern breakthrough of women in Danish music around 1900 - Hilda Sehested, Nancy Dalberg & Tekla Griebell. The scores newly edited and beautifully recorded.
www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recording...
Carl Nielsen now has a delicious apple spirit named after him. Available from the Carl Nielsen museum in Odense (fun fact: subtitled "Bel Canto" after an odd drinking song he composed for a Copenhagen male choir)
22.06.2025 13:17 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This incredible video turned up earlier this week: Percy Grainger playing Grieg's "To Spring" in 1957 - the only audio film of Grainger playing the piano. And musically stunning it is!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3Z...
Vila i frid käre Per ❤️🎶🌹🕯️Forever grateful for our friendship, and for the fantastic 8th Symphony. For me you remain the greatest symphonist of our time 💎🙏
28.05.2025 12:33 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Per Nørgård dies at 92.
For generations he was the greatest and most influential Danish composer. A true visionary!
www.dr.dk/nyheder/kult...
ach, Per Nørgård, grootse componist gestorven. Weet nog goed, begin jaren nul sprong hij na een uitvoering van een van zijn cellostukken dolenthousiast vanuit zijn stoel op het podium in een klein Londens theater om de uitvoerenden te feliciteren #RIP
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
A very unsuccessful kalimba!
24.05.2025 20:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Herbert Blomstedt rehearsing with Danish National Orchestra as he has done regularly since 1956. In a few months, he turns 98.
05.05.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fredensborg Castle this evening, the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Denmark. Queen Margrethe's home. One guard. Peaceful indeed.
We need more of this.
A second volume of Rued Langgaard's music in early pioneering recordings (1963-74). Just a decade after his death, the rediscovery started. Langgaard's widow Constance luckily witnessed the beginning of the revival.
www.danacordbutik.dk/product_info...
AI, you can do better than this... Fanny and Felix didn't look like that at all.
02.05.2025 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In 1929, a young Danish soprano was invited to perform in private for Mussolini. I have unearthed her own detailed account of this unforgettable evening with the great and "enchanting" dictator - and traced her later destiny.
www.jenscornelius.dk/den-danske-s...
One to watch!
Yesterday Adrianna Kubica-Cypek won the Danish "Carl Prize" for best classical composition of 2024: "Printemps", a part of her choral cycle Saisons.
Adrianna Kubica-Cypek (b. 1996) is Polish, but in recent years based in Copenhagen.
www.adriannakubicacypekmusic.com
The Estonian Composers' Union also accept musicologists as members. (I just LOVE Estonia!)
25.04.2025 07:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the most Estonian thing I have ever heard:
"The Estonian Composers’ Union owns grave sites in the Forest Cemetery, which are reserved for members of the Estonian Composers’ Union and their spouses."
www.helilooja.ee/en/estonian-...
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Fabio Luisi to perform at the BBC Proms in August:
Beethoven 9, Anna Clyne's The Years and the orchestra's new signature piece, Evening Land by Bent Sørensen (2017) www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezc9hn
Tonight: Exciting world premiere of Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen's Violin Concerto. Always a very personal composer with a big heart and a unique imagination.
Simone Lamsma soloist, Otto Tausk conducting the Danish National Orchestra
www.drkoncerthuset.dk/kalender/202...
Morgen „Antikrist“ an der Deutschen Oper Berlin!
Das Buch kommt auf meine Kaufliste!
For the first time a book on Danish composer Rued Langgaard is published in an international language!
A German translation of the recent (2024) Danish biography by the no. 1 Langgaard capacity Bendt Viinholt Nielsen. It's a must read - in both languages!
www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher...
Understandable confusion in the Vatican today - I tuned in to Radio Vaticana this morning after the announcement of Pope Francis' death and was surprised to hear jolly music (incl. the complete Carnival of the Animals!) for a full hour before the schedule was changed.
www.vaticannews.va/en/epg.html
A strong recommendation of this insightful blog by Finnish music journalist Jari Kallio!
@jarikallio.bsky.social
jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com
"Gothenborg Symphony Orchestra was my first love in the world of orchestras. The musicians were my idols. I knew them all by name."
A wonderful homage by 97 year old Herbert Blomstedt - who is conducting the orchestra tonight.
www.gso.se/2025/03/17/g...
I'm in St Matthew Church, Copenhagen, ready for the St John's Passion performed by Camerata Øresund & Det Unge Vokalensemble
06.04.2025 12:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My least favorite Beatles song (barring some of John Lennon's late horrors) has always been Taxman.
Even in my teens I balked at the sound of wealthy young working-class men moaning about contributing to an equitable society. They should have seen it as a privilege.
Recommended - if you happen to be in South Korea!
And if not, the music of Hans Abrahamsen is recommended anyway.
www.wisemusicclassical.com/news/5046/Ha...
