SATURDAY
September 5, 2026
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Subject to change without notice
11:00 a.m.
Winner of the Rued Langgaard Competition 2026
Sct. Catharinæ Church
Siri Sofia Glasdam Jakobsen, soprano, and Nichlas Overgaard, guitar, captivated the audience and the jury at this year’s Rued Langgaard Competition with their arrangements of Langgaard’s songs. With interpretations rich in poetry, a timeless folk-music tone, and plenty of chamber-music intimacy, Siri Sofia Glasdam Jakobsen and Nichlas Overgaard reveal new facets of Rued Langgaard’s music.
For the festival concert, they have also arranged songs by Elfrida Andrée and Ture Rangström, which engage in a dialogue with Norwegian songs by Rued Langgaard.
Rued Langgaard: 5 Erotic Poems (Vilhelm Krag) BVN 99 (1915)
- Bright Night
- In Those Wondrous Blonde Nights
Rued Langgaard: 4 Songs BVN 67 (1914)
- You, Flower in the Dew (J. P. Jacobsen)
- All the Growing Shadows (J. P. Jacobsen)
- Old Melody (Thor Lange)
Rued Langgaard: Songs by Jenny Blicher-Clausen BVN 66 (1914)
- All the Little Bells Ringing in the Valley (Evening)
Elfrida Andrée: To the Nightingale (Andreas Andrée) (1890–1900)
Ture Rangström: 23 Songs ( 1903–24)
- Behagen (Johan Ludvig Runeberg)
- Prayer for the Night (Hjalmar Bergman)
- An Old Dance Rhythm (Hjalmar Bergman)
Rued Langgaard: Youth (6 Norwegian Songs) (Ewald Sundberg) BVN 340 (1948)
- From the Street
- Evil Eyes
Rued Langgaard: Waldeslieder (Oscar von Rewitz) BVN 81 (1914)
- You're a beast, Wald!
Rued Langgaard: Mit hellen Augen (Emil Rittershaus) BVN 61 (1913)
Rued Langgaard: Five Songs (Joseph von Eichendorff) BVN 77 (1914)
- A mountain is on fire
- Dawn
Rued Langgaard: Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine, BVN 101 (1915)
- I dreamed of a king's child
Rued Langgaard: Russian Songs BVN 126 (1916)
- No Sound
- Poor, poor little girl
- Gypsy Tune
Cast:
Siri Sofia Glasdam Jakobsen, soprano
Nichlas Overgaard, guitar
13:00
Langgaard's piano and a legend by Selma Lagerlöf II
Café Rued
In *Smaa Sommerminder*(Little Summer Memories), a work rich in both sweetness and pain, Rued Langgaard dreams himself back to the summer of 1913 and his encounter with Dora From. Ture Rangström is also preoccupied with the sounds of the past in Suite No. 2. Most striking, however, is an irresistible sense of humor that culminates in a grotesque finale.
Reading of Selma Lagerlöf's legend Judas by Henrik Lykke from LæseSelskabet, Ribe.
Music:
Rued Langgaard: Smaa Sommerminder BVN 254 (1940) (8')
- Disposable
- Allegretto
- ..
- Sang: Tranquillo
Tura Rangström: Suite no. 2 (In modo barocco) Violin and piano (1920-22) (13')
- Entrata
- Alla Ballata
- Finale quasi grottesca
Cast:
- Benjamin Skydsgaard, piano
- Triinu Piirsalu, violin
15:00
Summer vacation in Blekinge
Tange Forest
Walking concert
An excursion with a Swedish atmosphere to Tange forest and hills east of Ribe.
Experience folk and jazz musicians from the Nordic elite interpret Rued Langgaard's piano classic Summer Vacation in Blekinge in a walking concert in Tange forest and hills, where moorland and inland dunes form a special nature.
Find your own spot in nature's great concert hall and listen to the music at just the distance and constellation you want.
Music:
Three ensembles have each explored Langgaard's sheet music for Sommerferie i Blekinge and have now created three original variation works for premiere at Rued Langgaard Festival.
The excursion ends with coffee, Langgaard pretzels and a jam session for all the musicians and students over two of Langgaard's most popular pieces from the collection: Svensk and Aften med Dans.
Duration (110')
The music is arranged, composed, improvised and played by:
- Deeply felt with Lena Jonsson, violin
- Sometimes with Jonas Frølund, clarinet
- Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, saxophone, and Tom Blancarte, bass
- Students from the Academy of Southern Denmark's folk music program
At 19.30
Langgaard Festival Band II
Ribe Cathedral Square
Music and dance.
Rued Langgaard and Swedish folk music.
Cast:
Esbjerg Culture School led by Dybfølt with Lena Jonsson.
Free of charge
8:00 p.m.
Hélsingeborg
Ribe Cathedral
Guest performance with Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and Swedish star soprano Christina Nilsson begins and ends with dramatic symphonies by Rued Langgaard.
In Symphony No. 12, which is a recomposition of Symphony No. 1 Rock Pastorals in short form, the Nordic goddess of death Hél is at play.
Symphony No. 10 takes us on a perilous symphonic dream journey to Kullen, which also offers atmospheric moments in the forest that covers the rocky Swedish peninsula.
Along the way, we also hear the symphonic poem Dithyramb, in which Ture Rangström passionately pays tribute to his countryman August Strindberg for his free spirit. In the orchestral songs with Christina Nilsson, we move into a cosmic mood world where anything can happen, and where the inspiration for Goethe's Metamorphosen comes from Rued Langgaard's love meeting with Dora From in Kyrkhult in Blekinge.
Music:
Rued Langgaard: Symphony No. 12 Hélsingeborg Stretta (New Symphony No. 1). BVN 318 (1946) (8')
Andreas Peer Kähler: Goethe-Metamorphosen Liedcyklus using Rued Langgaard's Lieder von Goethe BVN 60 (1913) for voice and small orchestra (2024) (10') Nordic premiere.
- Prelude
- Reminder
- Interlude
- Equal and equal
- Interlude
- Floral greeting
- Interlude
- In vain
- Epilogue
Ture Rangström: Dithyramb symphonic poem (1909) In memoriam August Strindberg. Revised by Kurt Atterberg (1948) (18')
Pause
Elfrida Andrée: Forgive me From the opera Fritiof's Saga (Selma Lagerlöf) (1899) (4')
Ture Rangström: Songs to lyrics by Bo Bergman
- Prayer for the Night (1924) (3')
- An Old Dance Rhythm (1915) (2')
- Pan (1924) (3')
- Wings in the night (1917) (2')
Rued Langgaard: Symphony No. 10 Hin Tordenbolig BVN 298 (1944-45) (26')
Motto after William Shakespeare: "If it lure you to the dreadful summit of the rock..."
Cast:
- Christina Nilsson, soprano
Berte Wiggers Lyneborg, mezzo-soprano, in Goethe's Metamorphoses
- Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra,
expanded to include students from the Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Conductor: Tobias Ringborg
- Visual staging: Lene Juhl
10:30 p.m.
Langgaard Lounge
Café Rued
Meet some of today's artists while enjoying a Rued Langgaard porter from Ribe Bryghus.
Cast:
Swedish folk music with musicians from Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
Hosted by Karen Bendix
Free of charge
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