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Music for Strings by J.P.E. Hartmann

Music for Strings by J.P.E. Hartmann

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Emil Telmányi © Jesper Buhl

In 1982 I started to search the Danish Radio Archive for recordings of music by Carl Nielsen which later turned out to be a sack-full of hidden treasures which many years later were
collected in a 30-CD box (DACOCD 801-830). Among the many live recordings luckily still kept on tape in the archive was a performance of the Nielsen Violin Concerto played by the 1892
Hungarian-born Emil Telmányi. The conductor was no less than Fritz Busch and it became the highlight in the above-mentioned Carl Nielsen Historic set.
I was curious to talk to the violinist who was once the son-in-law of Nielsen and who later re-married the versatile pianist and violinist Annette Schiøler with whom he had three talented
daughters, all fully trained string players. It is hard to imagine a more welcoming home than the warm and cosy house north of Copenhagen where the near-blind Emil Telmányi was still bursting with energy and where his wife Annette and the daughter Ilona were encyclopaedias of musical knowledge.
During my many visits there I befriended the family and their music colleagues. The idea emerged that they wanted to record never before recorded music by the Danish composer J.P.E. Hartmann, a composer they were close to and from whom they had collected manuscripts and other memorabilia, not least a piano belonging to the composer.
In April 1983 we did the recording in the Skt. Annæ Gymnasium where Emil Telmányi had assembled a string orchestra consisting of friends and professional players where he was
the amazingly agile, alert and musical-beaming conductor. The same month the fine pair of mother and daughter set down the pieces by Hartmann for violin and piano.
On the original LP a few Hartmann-arrangements by Julius Röntgen and transcribed for viola by Ilona Telmányi also were included; however since they were not original works we have left them out in this CD re-issue, leaving room for the Carl Nielsen String Quintet recorded in 1965 where the whole family performed together, still today something of a musical marvel.

 

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J.P.E. Hartmann
Character Pieces Nos. 1 – 3, Op. 81 for String Orchestra
[ 1 ] Moderato-Allegro
[ 2 ] Andante-Allegro moderato marcato assa i- Tempo 1
[ 3 ] Allegro grazioso

Carl Nielsen
Quintet for strings in G-Major (1888)
[ 4 ] Allegro pastorale
[ 5 ] Adagio
[ 6 ] Allegretto scherzando
[ 7 ] Finale: Allegro molto

J.P.E. Hartmann
Suite in A minor, Op. 66 for violin and piano (1864)
[ 8 ] Prelude: Moderato non troppo – Allegro
[ 9 ] Moderato non troppo
[10] Scherzo: Allegro vivace assai – un poco meno vivo-Tempo
[11] Moderato
[12] Allegro con moto

Fantasie-Allegro for violin and piano (1889)
[13] Moderato-Allegro moderato

From The LP Years ©
Danish record company Danacord was founded in the very early years of the 1980s when the Long Playing record was ruling the phonogram market. Recordings were still done by analogue tape and on the LP cover the word Stereo proudly signified a brand new recording.
However, the first digital recordings with digital editing were just around the corner and only a few years into the 1980s came the compact disc that swiped away any request for the LP.
Danacord quickly followed the new technical development and the first Danacord CDs entered the catalogue leaving behind the LP. From now on everything was recorded digitally and edited on expensive equipment opening the door for the shining compact disc.
Years later the transfer of original analogue recordings to digital masters for CD production became more sophisticated and advanced noise-cancelling systems even allowed the old 78 rpm. recordings to be free of crackle, rumble and distortion. The Danacord catalogue grew quickly and a long series of historical recordings found its way to CD. In fact, with the latest sound-transfer system developed in the early 2000s Danacord released many historic recordings, among them the 30-CD box set of Carl Nielsen recordings, which won both international acclaim and awards (DACOCD 801-830)
Going back to the first years of Danacord Records many fine recordings were done using analogue equipment and masters were prepared for LP release. Invaluable documents never made it into the CD era, but now we are determined to make up for these omissions in this series From The LP Years. Wherever we could locate the master tapes they were used in this transfer process by the engineer Claus Byrith from Asinus Studio and only the best and most up to date analogue-to-digital sound equipment was in use. Careful restoration and balance were the top priority.
The result is a wide range of re-releases of these precious nearly-40-year-old tapes. The musical spectre is wide from old baroque masters to contemporary composers playing their own works. Important Danish musicians left recordings of their art which we now can hear in brilliant new transfers. The final result is over a dozen additions to the Danacord CD catalogue.
For many it will be a welcome chance to listen again to the LP recordings in new enhanced sound on the modern CD.

RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2019

CATALOGUE NUMBER DACOCD 853

EAN: 5709499853009

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