Kantate ved Landsudstillingen i Århus (Cantata for the National Exhibition in Århus), for chorus & orchestra, FS 54
Hyldest til Holberg (Homage to Holberg), for soloists, chorus & orchestra, FS 102
Ariel's Song ("Selv naar Tordenen tynger"), for voice & piano (from FS 80)
Kantate ved Universitetets Aarsfest (Cantata for the anniversary of Copenhagen University), for chorus & orchestra, FS 47 (Op. 24)
Kantate ved Landsudstillingen i Århus (Cantata for the National Exhibition in Århus), for chorus & orchestra, FS 54: Recitation. Thi disse to er Kilderne til alt
Three of the five pieces on this disc have never been recorded before and two are slender works that have previously appeared only in poor performances on obscure labels. The world premieres are substantial works, multi-movement cantatas, two of them lasting more than 20 minutes, by the great Danish fin de siècle symphonist Carl Nielsen. That being said, purely in terms of aesthetic worth, these cantatas roughly bear the same relationship to Nielsen's symphonies as Beethoven's Der glorreiche Augenblick does to his ...
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Three of the five pieces on this disc have never been recorded before and two are slender works that have previously appeared only in poor performances on obscure labels. The world premieres are substantial works, multi-movement cantatas, two of them lasting more than 20 minutes, by the great Danish fin de siècle symphonist Carl Nielsen. That being said, purely in terms of aesthetic worth, these cantatas roughly bear the same relationship to Nielsen's symphonies as Beethoven's Der glorreiche Augenblick does to his symphonies. Each cantata is an occasional work: one for the annual Copenhagen University commemoration in 1908, another for the opening ceremony of the national exhibition in Århus in 1909, and the third for Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen's Homage to Holberg in 1923. Though there are some fine things here, particularly the angular string writing of the second movement of the Homage to Holberg and the ecstatic duet between tenor and soprano opening the university cantata, most of the...
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