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product_id: 12439178
title: "Wood Works"
brand: "danish string quartet"
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# Wood Works

**Brand:** danish string quartet
**Price:** 5335 kr
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Product Description          The Danish String Quartet, at present the house quartet at both New York's Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and BBC Radio 3, are taking the plunge as folk musicians with their new album on Denmark's national record label Dacapo, Wood Works. They're riding a wave of international success with classical quartet playing in the world's leading concert halls - from Lincoln Center to Wigmore Hall. The quartet's video of an old bridal piece from Danish Sønderho has spread like wildfire on YouTube with more than 50,000 viewings. They're the darlings of the press with classical reviewers, and in February were proclaimed "a hit ensemble" in The New York Times, at the same time filling a whole page under the heading "a hot Danish foursome" in The New Yorker. Here, these four elite classical string players drop the sheet music and play traditional folk from small Nordic villages in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Norway and Sweden. No strangers to standard classical repertoire, the Quartet debuted on Dacapo with a prizewinning CD of string quartets by Carl Nielsen.             Review          The superb Danish String Quartet plays its own engaging arrangements of Nordic folk tunes, some with a melancholic tinge, like the opening "Ye Honest Bridal Couple" and the "Waltz After Lasse in Lyby." The arrangements are vividly etched, including "Five Sheep, Four Goats" (for string quartet and flugelhorn). Lively dance selections include the "Peat Dance" and a polka called "Ribers No. 8," which the ensemble describes as "one of the happiest Danish tunes that we know." --Schweitzer, New York TimesThe members of the Danish String Quartet create music that works for the kitchen party or the concert hall. In either case, toes will be tapping. --CBC, Disc of the WeekThe quartet mines a surprisingly varied range of moods, instrumental effects and color, and tempo. --Strings Magazine, December 2014In the talented hands of the Danish String Quartet these 'Wood Works' - traditional Nordic folksongs and dances - are buffed and polished to a glossy concert-hall sheen. Contemporary arrangements galvanise --Gramophone"It was a good year for Danish music, with excellent recordings of symphonies by Carl Nielsen, Per Norgard and Poul Ruders, plus two lovely albums of Rued Langgaard's string quartets. But the most striking of all is Wood Works, a musical journey through Nordic folk music guided by the extraordinarily gifted Danish String Quartet. "Sonderho Bridal Triology - Part II," with its colorful grooves, turns out to be a 400-year-old wedding song from the Danish island of Fano. There are stops in other Nordic hamlets for local versions of polkas and jigs, all played with such unmannered charm that you might wish the group would give up its usual diet of Haydn and Brahms." --Tom Huizenga, NPR Best Classical Albums of 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Best album of the year.
  

*by G***2 on Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024*

Four excellent string musicians playing incredible arrangements of Danish folk songs.  Experimental, refreshing, and fun to listen to.  Highly recommend it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    "FOLK MUSIC IS THE MUSIC OF EVERYWHERE..."
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2015*

DANISH STRING QUARTET.  Wood Works. DaCapo. 2014. $14.95.  Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, Frederik Oland, violin; Asjberg Norgaard, viola; Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin, cello.“Folk music is the music of everywhere and everyone.” That’s the first sentence in the liner notes to Wood Works, a musically charming, tasteful and thoroughly well played homage to Scandinavian folk music. The variety of the pieces played is astonishing to someone like me, who has no prior experience with this music at all. (Actually, that’s not quite true. I did recognize “Ack Varmeland, du skona,” but only because I have it on two jazz albums under the title “Dear Old Stockholm.”) There are reels, waltzes, jigs and polkas, and one piece (“O Fredrik, O Fredrick”) that sounds at first like the Kronos Quartet playing Steve Reich. Some of the pieces are subdued and lyrical (cf. especially the three parts of the “Sonderho Bridal Trilogy”), others rollicking and rowdy. They even comment about “the funky possibilities” of the dance, “Old Reinlender from Sonndala,” which sounds like a particularly muscular schottische. This is one of the best albums of music I have heard in a long time. Everything is perfect in it: their choice of tunes, the harmonious blending and echoing of the violins, viola and cello, and above all, the musicians’ inspired decision to give their not always so simple native music an audience.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Danish String Quartet Wows with the Folk Music of Scandinavia
  

*by N***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2014*

I just recently learned and found the Danish String Quartet, one through a feature in a magazine and then through NPR radio playing their music. I was leaning towards this Wood Works album being of Scandinavian influences in the traditional folk sense, Norwegian myself and loving the music classical and traditional. What a treat and delight this album is! The album starts off in a haunting tone, reflective and sets the Scandinavian spirit in a dark yet beautiful mood. Then it moves on from there with spirited dances, jigs, and tradtional folk tones, some even will recognize who are familiar with Scandinavian music. In fact I can't stop playing the album, the groups playing is fantastic and evokes the feelings and sounds of Norway, Sweden, Denmark so very well. Its like a traditional Scandinavian koltbord or smorgasbord filled with moving material and a fresh sound for these old pieces and stories that are living within them. What has me so impressed is its a string quartet playing traditional tunes, yet while listening you forget its a string quartet. I can't recommend this album enough. I would love to see a follow up album to this one, they cover the Scandinavian feelings and sounds so well and you can tell by the playing that they enjoy what they do and have the knowledge and care for the music they are showcasing and sharing. Thank you Danish String Quartet, amazing job, more please!

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