HARMONIOUS FAMILIES VOL 3
DANISH COMPOSITIONS BY FATHERS AND SONS
Asger Hamerik
Jewish Trilogy, op. 19 (1868)
1. Ouverture (The Wandering)
2. Lamento (Dirge and consolation)
3. Sinfonia trionfale (Hymn of Victory)
4. Koncertromance for cello og orkester, op. 27c (1878)
Ebbe Hamerik
Cantus firmus V Sinfonia breve (1949)
5. Allegretto
6. Andante
7. Allegro
8. Adagio
9. Presto
Concerto molto breve for obo og orkester (1950)
10. Moderato
11. Lento
12. Vivo
Asger Hamerik ©
Asger Hamerik (the family’s original name was Hammerich, but Asger altered the name to Hamerik when he went abroad) never really achieved much recognition as a composer in Denmark. He grew up in a religious and musically active environment (he was a cousin of the composer C.F.E. Horneman, and his brother, Angul Hammerich, became Denmark’s first professor of the history of music). When he was young he considered studying theology, but music proved to be too strong an attraction. He studied with Niels W. Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann and at the age of nineteen went to Berlin in 1862.
He had already composed various works: a symphony, a cantata, a piano quintet and an overture. In Berlin he studied with Hans von Bülow, ccbut went to Paris in 1864 where he got to know Hector Berlioz. This was crucial for Hamerik’s development as a composer. After cBerlioz’s death in 1869 Hamerik went to ltaly where in 1870 his opera La Vendetta was performed in Milan. It is an early example of the one-act verismo later made popular by Mascagni and Leoncavallo.
RELEASE DATE: MAY 1999
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 526
EAN: 5709499526002
