Sfærernes musik (Music of the spheres) (1916) ...
Rued Langgaard, Danish composer (1893 - 1952), inspired yet again by planetary motion, divided his orchestra and vocalists to create a spatial music, long before Stockhausen ...Influenced by Wagner and Strauss, he's a great orchestrator, very dramatic ...
Langgaard's extensive use of slow moving string clusters prompted the composer György Ligeti to proclaim himself a "Langgaard-epigone" when presented with the score in the late 1960s. ...
Performed at the Proms 2010 ...
Promotion for CD ...
