Selsø Castle
Summer Concerts  -  for the ear, eye & mind

Since 1983 I have been the artistic director and Artist in Residence of the concerts at Selsø Castle. A concert in the great hall is always a special experience, and the beautiful baroque hall from 1734 with the 4 m high wooden panels and large wall paintings by the Court painter Hendrick Krock and ceiling stucco by the famous Italian masters the Brenno Brothers is well-known for its fine acoustics. In the hall there also are 2 Versailles mirrors signed Garnier et Bonnemain, Paris 1733. When darkness comes, the hall is illuminated by candle light as the castle has no electricity installed. In the oldest Danish manor house kitchen with an open fireplace in the cellar it is possible to enjoy a glass of well temperate wine from the wine cellar of the castle during the interval.


8 to 10 concerts will be organized from from June to September.
The concert calendar with programme and how to order tickets is at the bottom of this page.

In 1983 Selsø Castle received a Europa Nostra diploma for its gentle restoration.
See photos from the castle and its surroundings.

 

Sponsors:



The Soloist Association of 1921

 The Danish Soloist Association

The Danish Ministry of Culture

Frederikssund Municipality





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Video from the Great Hall
from a rehearsal with music by Mozart
Ulla Kappel, piano, Hornung & Møller 1860
Yuzuru Hiranaka, harpsichord, J.H.
Harraß 1734

Video from the Empire Room
from a rehearsal with music by Mozart
Ulla Kappel, piano & Yuzuru Hiranaka, harpsichord

 

 

        

Video from concert June 2008
John Dowland: "Come again"
Ole Hedegaard, song, Carsten Pedersen, guitar
Knud Aage Larsen, viola d'amore

Video from concert June 2008
Frederik Rung: "Troubadour"
Ole Hedegaard, song, Carsten Pedersen, guitar
Knud Aage Larsen, viola d'amore

 

 

 

Video from concert June 2008
Carl Nielsen: "Faith and Hope Are Playing"
Mogens Friis, flute & Knud Aage Larsen, viola

Video fra koncert juni 2008
Carl Nielsen: "The Children Are Playing"
Mogens Friis, flute

Steps & Bells - viola d'amore solo 2008
Knud Aage Larsen - a Danish legend 91 years


Concert Calendar

How to Order Tickets

Tickets for the concerts at Selsø Castle can be ordered here. Tickets for printning are sent free of charge to your e-mail address when you have paid by bank transfer or homebanking. Danske Bank: Reg.no. 1551 account 0006579426. Please write to this address how many tickets you want: koncert@flutist.dk or phone to +45 4593 0778 all days from 8 am to 10 pm.


Members of the Association of Selsø Castle Friends have 2 weeks' option from 15 April - 1 May to buy concert tickets before the opening of the official sale.

Membership.pdf
 

Programme - 2011
 

2011 - 28th season  

 Selsø Castle Summer Concerts entrance-fee 100 kr.
     
June    
15. & 16.6
Sold out Wednesday

Sold out Thursday ●
At 7.30 pm

"Midsummer Concert"  This season's Baroque concert with 3 musicians offers a great programme with J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, G.Ph. Telemann, and J.B. Loiellet de Ghent. The concert is played by Roberto Falcone, barokviolin, Mogens Friis, flute, and Yuzuru Hiranaka, harpsichord.
Live recording. J.S.Bach Triosonata G Major, BWV 1038: Largo  ●  C.Ph.E. Bach Triosonata D Major, Wq 151: Allegro un poco
Photo Programme  
 

     
July    
20. & 21.7
Sold out Wednesday

Sold out Thursday ●
At 7.30 pm

"Golden Age Concert" Piano recital with music by e.g. Mozart and Haydn played by the pianist Charlotte Møller on the old Hornung & Møller grand piano of the castle from 1860. The artist has specialized in historic keyboard instruments.
Photo

     
August    
3. & 4.8
Sold out Wednesday

Sold out Thursday ●  
At 7.30 pm

"Opera & Song Evening"  This evening's concert offers a mixed programme with duets and solo singing from operas and operettas by Mozart, together with some Swedish romances. At the concert you will hear opera singer Anna Carina Sundstedt, soprano, Jacob Lech, bass-baritone, and Henrik Metz, piano.
Photo

     
August    
24. & 25 8
Sold out Wednesday

Sold out Thursday ●
At 7.30 pm "Every Hour Is Gilded - Baroque Music & Poetry by Ambrosius Stub" In the 18th century Ambrosius Stub (1705-58) was a famous poet of the occasion, songs, poems and secular verse. The program includes songs and poems authored over 1730s German popular shows from the collection "Singende Muse an der Pleiße" and in Danish particularly the famous song "The boring winter went its course". Tonight's concert is with music by Telemann, Blavet & Piacentino and is performed by soloist, singer & actor Christian Steffensen, Henrik Metz, spinet & Mogens Friis, flute.
Photo   "I Make Thin Coffee", Johan Daniel Berlin
     
August    
31.8.
Sold out

 
At 7.30 pm

"Quartetto di Venezia" - The string quartet Quartetto di Venezia - Italy  -  Boccherini op.8 mp3
Programme: Cherubini, Vacchi, Puccini & Verdi
Photo

     

2011

Selsø Church                               admission free
     
October    
2.10 At 4 pm

"Autumn Concert with Flute, Alphorn & Organ" According to tradition there is an afternoon concert at Selsø Church on the first Sunday of October in the beautiful autumn when you can also visit Selsø Castle. Programme with music by J.S. Bach, Antonio Romano Piacentino, Louis-Claude Daquin, Max Bruch, Langlais a.o. The concert is played by cathedral organist Flemming Dreisig, alphornist Ruth Hessel Madsen, flutist Mogens Friis.
Dialogue with Nature, flute, alphorn & organ
Photos 
Video with Alphorn solo

     
December    
4.12.11 At 3 pm "Christmas Concert" - Selsø Church
Anna Carina Sundstedt, soprano, Henrik Metz, organ & Mogens Friis, flute



See more photos of the church
 

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