Symphony No. 1 in B Minor BVN 32

Despite being eccentric and at odds with his fellow human beings for most of his life, Danish composer Rued Langgaard was convinced that his time would come – and so it did. In Symphony No. 1, we find the teenage Langgaard celebrating his love of beauty and harmony in the most hedonistic terms with a gigantic alpine symphony that predates Richard Strauss’s by two years. With this recording the symphony returns home to the Berliner Philharmoniker, the first orchestra to perform this masterpiece to great acclaim in 1913.