Sunday
September 6, 2026
Program TBA
Tickets can be purchased via the link under the concert/event description from May 2026.
Subject to change without notice
10:00 am
High mass
Ribe Cathedral
Prelude, postlude: Music by Elfrida Andrée and Rued Langgaard
- August Söderman: Kyrie from Spiritual Songs
- Rued Langgaard: Praise God, all stars of light BVN 300 (1944)
Cast:
- Ribe Chamber Choir and Ribe Youth Choir.
- Conductor: Jonas Hunt
- Torben Krebs, organ
Free access
11.15 am
Rued Langgaard's Organ Bench
Ribe Cathedral
Demonstration of the organ in Ribe Cathedral.
Come up to the organ where Philip Schmidt-Madsen talks about Langgaard as an organist and demonstrates special effects.
Free access
At 12:00 and 13:30
With Rued Langgaards in Sweden
Langgaard Hall
Lectures
From the age of 5 and for the rest of his life, Rued Langgaard spent almost every summer in Sweden.
He often traveled to Arild at Kullen and Kyrkhult in Blekinge, which inspired him to create important works and where he experienced the love of his life.
Lecture by Bendt Viinholt Nielsen
12.00 pm
Langgaard's piano and a legend by Selma Lagerköf III
Café Rued
Concert and reading
Reading of The Redneck from Selma Lagerlöf's Christ Legends (1904) by Anette Jensen from LæseSelskabet, Ribe.
Music:
Elifrida Andrée: Two Romances Violin and Piano (1884) (7')
- Larghetto
- Allegro giocoso
Rued Langgaard: Violin Sonata No. 3 BVN 312 (1945-49) (13')
- III Scherzo
- IV
- V Finale. Allegro molto
Ture Rangström: Capriccio amoroso, in modo tzigane (1936) (4')
Cast:
- Benjamin Skydsgaard, piano
- Triinu Piirsalu, violin
At 15.00
Rosengaardsspil
Sct. Catharinæ Church
Concert
Both Rosengaardsspil and String Quartet No. 1 are linked to crucial events in the summer of 1913, when Rued Langgaard lived in the house Rosengaarden in the spa town of Kyrkhult, and when Rued Langgaard and Dora From, the same age, fell in love.
In his String Quartet No. 10 - dedicated to the Nightingale String Quartet - Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen is inspired by some of the "Dora themes" that run like a red thread through Langgaard's music.
Music:
Rued Langgaard: Rosengaardsspil BVN 153 (1918) (25')
- Interior
- Mozart
- Draabefall
- Rococo
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen: String Quartet No. 10 (2025) (17')
- Simple and emotional
- Hesitant - Lentissimo
- With transparency
- Deciso
- Lontano - Largamente
- Lento
Pause
Rued Langgaard: String Quartet No. 1 BVN 68 (1914-15, 1936) (38')
- Andante ma non troppo
- Allegretto scherzando
- Grave
- Sostenuto
Cast:
Nightingale String Quartet
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