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The Launy Grondahl Legacy, Vol. 9

The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Launy Grondahl

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: DACOCD889

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Release Date:  04 July 2025

Label:  Danacord - Cd / Danacord

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5709499889008

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  The Launy Grondahl Legacy, Vol. 9

  • Description

    No one did more for Danish music in his lifetime than Launy Grondahl. In these radio recordings from the 1950s, he conducted unfamiliar works by the father of the classical tradition in Denmark, J.P.E. Hartmann. This music for the stage presents both the light and the serious sides of the 'Nordic tone' which inflected music in Denmark up to the time of Nielsen and beyond. The Nielsen influence emerges in two movements from the First Symphony by his pupil Poul Schierbeck, and then in a ceremonial cantata which was performed annually to mark Denmark's national day. Composed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the cantata by Jens Laurson Emborg belongs to its dark time, and yet it also captures enduring characteristics of the Danish spirit.