Mathias Landaeus - Double Door - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Svend Simon Schultz (1913-1998) is one of the most remarkable Danish composers and as a conductor he made a significant contribution to Danish songs, not least during his 30 years as head of the Danish Radio Chamber Choir. He was constantly composing and wrote music for movies, chamber ensemble and especially for choir. Svend S. Schultz made a stamp on Danish choral music which is still beaming today. His songs are known by every Dane and his production probably one of the most encompassing of all Danish composers. This is the second CD of a project to record all his nearly 90 choral songs, all of them musically and technically on the highest possible level.

Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for his Inchglowing, distinctive and exciting masculine toneInch as Inchone of the great cello talents of our timeInch (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 15.10.2013), cellist Valentin Radutiu was born in Munich and received his first cello lessons from his father at the age of six. He later studied in Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin with Clemens Hagen, Heinrich Schiff and David Geringas. Radutiu has released several album recordings In addition to the 2011 debut , an album with French works by Lalo, Ravel and Magnard is available, and the 2014 of the complete works for cello and piano by George Enescu with Per Rundberg was praised by critics as a benchmark recording (Haenssler Classic). Radutiu plays a cello made by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1685). On this newest , he performs works by J.C. Bach, Casadesus, Haydn, and Janson.

Since his breakthrough in 2012, leading Nordic jazz vocalist/saxophonist Mads Mathias has received numerous awards and toured clubs and festivals across Europe and Asia, performing at concert halls such as the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. He has also frequently fronted the Danish Radio Big Band. On this, his sophomore album, Mads has gathered together some of the best in the business, from Grammy-nominated DR arranger Peter Jensen and the UK's leading jazz arranger Guy Barker (London Jazz Festival's 'Jazz Voice') to the leader of the renowned Danish String Quartet - Rune Tonsgård, Brazilian Pandero master Bernardo Aguiar and one of the world's best harmonica players, Mathias Heise. Alongside these new collaborators are long-time associates 'the Quentin Tarantino of Danish jazz' and playmate since childhood Peter Rosendal (keys), Morten Ankarfeldt and Esben Laub & UK rising-star James Maddren on drums, plus an incredible horn section. 'It's been really exciting to work with these amazing musicians and be able to use different instrumentation to best deliver each song' Mads comments. In so doing, the album provides great variety, yet with a forward-looking, original and consistent 'sound' throughout.