Langgaard String Quartets

[Alan Howe]

For the Langgaard fans among you (I'm not really one), Dacapo are planning to bring out his String Quartets next year...
http://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/news-a-sneak-preview-at-2012.aspx

[eschiss1]

I thought there already was a recording of his string quartets out some years back, though I haven't yet heard it- maybe it was just of a few of them. Anyhow and even if so, the more the merrier...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Thanks for spotting this.  I, too, remember a string quartet or two already present on CD, but this series will give us all of them. Excellent news!

[erato]

I'm sitting with a 2 CD dacapo set of the complete Langgaard quartets issued in 93 and played by the Kontra quartet in my hands. Haven't listened to it for some years, but seem to remember it didn't catch fire. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm sitting with a 2 CD dacapo set of the complete Langgaard quartets issued in 93 and played by the Kontra quartet in my hands. Haven't listened to it for some years, but seem to remember it didn't catch fire.

Perhaps the younger generation will have more luck...

[erato]

The Kontra's did a great job with Holmboe, so I suspect it was the music, but in general I'm not terribly conviced by Langgaard. Time will tell

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Langgaard is a prolific but uneven composer. Still, once you like his sound-world, it's difficult not to find the pearls (a melody, a harmony) even among his lesser productions.