Selma Jezková : an opera based on Lars von Trier's Dancer in the dark

"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "The fount of creative energy that has sustained Poul Ruders since the late 1960s shows no sign of running dry ... Most recent of all is the Piano Concerto (2009-10), written for Vassily Primakov and delivered by him with a superb range of colour, attack and atmosphere ... Imagine the Russian's [Gubaidulina] symbolic sound world shot through with the energy of Ligeti and you have some idea of the rewards in store from this marvellous disc, all of which is superbly played and recorded".

"Musically, the work is descended from Berg, in that its free tonality provides an expressive focus without the schematic framework becoming inflexible ... Michael Schønwandt conducts with his customary flair, securing a comitted response from the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, while Kasper Holten directs with the theatricl inventiveness and acuity that made his Ring cycle ... such an absorbing reinterpretation".