He concluded his principal conductorship of the DNSO at the close of the 2010–2011 season, and subsequently became the orchestra's æresdirigent (honorary conductor).
[11] In March 2024, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Dausgaard as its next principal guest conductor, effective with the 2024–2025 season.
With the DNSO, he has recorded extensively for Chandos, EMI, Virgin and DaCapo labels, including Danish and other Scandinavian music, like works by Per Nørgård,[14][15] symphony cycles of Johan Svendsen, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Rued Langgaard,[16] Dag Wirén, Franz Berwald, works by August Enna[17] and Asger Hamerik, as well as by Carl Nielsen.
With the Swedish Chamber Orchestra Dausgaard has recorded the complete orchestral works by Ludwig van Beethoven for Simax, and for BIS they have recorded works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner, Antonín Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Steve Mackey, Anders Hillborg, Olga Neuwirth, Uri Caine, Brett Dean, as well as complete symphony cycles of Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms, including Dausgaard's own orchestrations of 18 Hungarian Dances by Brahms.
Dausgaard has been awarded the Cross of Chivalry by the Queen of Denmark, and elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.