RUED LANGGAARD

Music of the Spheres, for soprano, chorus, orchestra and distant orchestra

35:29

1

Like sunbeams on a coffin decorated with

2:32

sweet-smelling flowers

2

Like the twinkling of stars in the blue sky at sunset -

2:34

3

Like light and the depths -

2:08

4

Like the refraction of sunbeams in the waves -

0:36

5

Like the twinkling of a pearl of dew in the sun on

0:53

a beautiful summer's morning -

6

Longing - Despair - Ecstasy -

3:33

7

Soul of the world - Abyss - All Soul's day -

2:16

8

I wish...! -

1:21

9

Chaos - Ruin - Far and near -

2:07

10

Flowers wither -

1:36

11

Glimpse of the sum through tears -

5:17

12

Bells pealing: Look! He comes -

1:58

13

The gospel of flowers - From the far distance -

2:28

14

The new day -

1:32

15

The end: Antichrist - Christ

4:38

Hedwig Rummel - Annette Simonsen contralto, choir solos

Four Tone Pictures

17:44

16

I

Likewords for a summer's day saga

4:28

17

II

A scent of mull and mud

3:34

18

III

A golden flake hovers above

4:38

19

IV

The flowering summer was linked to the harvest

4:56

Gitta-Maria Sjoberg soprano

Jesper Grove Jorgensen

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

21,23 & 24 February 1996