Listen to Ruders' chamber music. Listen to it again - and feel the thrill. You will be rewarded for it.
- Thomas Michelsen, Politiken, 1.9.2022

Next week on 2 July 2026, Rudersdal Chamber Players will give the World Premiere of Poul Ruders' much-anticipated Piano Quintet (2024) at Hindsgavl Festival in Denmark.

Poul Ruders dedicated the work to the ensemble after hearing their performance of his Piano Quartet (2016) which followed their award-winning feature album Poul Ruders: Rudersdal Chamber Players (OUR Recordings, 2022) with chamber works by the composer. Apart from his elliptical Throne (1988) for clarinet and piano, the album included more recent compositions Clarinet Quintet (2014) and Piano Quartet (2016) both of which BBC Music Magazine's Steph Power wrote:

Each is a taut combination of clean lines and often dissonant, sometimes otherworldly chords built from seemingly small beginnings. Now quirkily playful, now impassioned or bleakly spare, the textures are everywhere sonorous - and ambivalent in their changing moods, yet direct and cohesive in a way that resists comfortable resolution. ★★★★★
- Steph Power, BBC Music Magazine, 2.11.22

All works featured on the album are available to purchase. Explore Poul Ruders' chamber catalogue here.

Other exciting performances at Hindsgavl Festival 2026

4 & 5 July 2026: Trio con Brio Copenhagen performs Piano Trio no. 2: Descriptions of the Ephemeral (2025) by Rune Glerup which premiered at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin earlier this year. Join Rune Glerup and Trio con Brio Copenhagen at the Artist Talk before the repeat performance on 5 July.

5 July 2026: Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier present Song (2010) by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen based on John Dowland's Flow my Tears. Read more about Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s choral works here.

Details

2 July 2026 at 15.30
Piano Quintet by Poul Ruders
Rudersdal Chamber Players

4 July 2026 at 20:00
Piano Trio no. 2 by Rune Glerup
Trio con Brio Copenhagen

5 July 2026 at 10.00
Artist Talk and Piano Trio no. 2 by Rune Glerup
Trio con Brio Copenhagen

5 July at 15.30
Song by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Theatre of Voices & Paul Hillier

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