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Erling Blöndal Bengtsson: The Early Danish Recordings 1955-59

Erling Blöndal Bengtsson: The Early Danish Recordings 1955-59

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Erling Blöndal Bengtsson
Erling Blöndal Bengtsson was born in Copenhagen on 8 March 1932 to musician parents; his Danish father was a violinist and his Icelandic mother a pianist. This release includes performances of three relatively rare cello concertos, all new to Bengtsson’s discography, and amongst the first fruits of his extended relationship with the Danish State Radio Symphony
Orchestra, which began in 1947 when Bengtsson performed Lalo’s Cello Concerto with Launy Grþndahl (1886-1960) conducting.
It’s not every cellist who is afforded the tribute of a statue. Bengtsson is an exception though. Because this cellist and pedagogue (he has been a life-long teacher) is held in such high esteem
throughout Scandinavia, an imposing bronze statue of him (by Olöf Palsdottir) graces the entrance to Reykjavik’s main concert hall in Iceland’s capital city.

 

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Review: Gramophone
Review: ClassicalSource
Samuel Barber
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 22 (1945)
1. I. Allegro moderato
2. II. Andante sostenuto
3. III. Molto allegro e appassionato
Live Thursday Concert, Concert Hall, Danish Radio, Copenhagen, November 24, 1955

Siegfried Salomon
Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 34 (1922)
4. I. Allegro moderato
5. II. Andante cantabile
6. III. Allegro giocoso
Studio recording, Concert Hall, Danish Radio, Copenhagen, June 16, 1959

Niels Viggo Bentzon
Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 106 (1956)
7. I. Fantasia
8. II. Rondo
9. III. Aria
10. IV. Alla marcia
First Danish performance. Live Concert, Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, August 19, 1957

The Cello ©

In all three concertos, Bengtsson plays a modern instrument, made in 1935 by the
Copenhagen-based J. N. Frost.
Today the cello resides in that city’s Royal Academy of Music and is lent to gifted students.
Bengtsson likes to recall Nikolai Malko (1883-1961), who conducts the Barber here,
and who was closely associated with Danish musical life. Malko was something of a magician
and after the concert there was a party at the cellist’s house where Malko “entertained with all
sorts of card tricks.”

RELEASE DATE: JULY 2012

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 727

EAN: 5709499727003

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