Niels W. Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann
A Folk Tale
Act 1:
1. Introduction
2. No. 1 – The Hunt
3. No. 2 – Peasant Dance
4. Reel
5. No. 3 – Minuet
6. Contredance
7. No. 4
8. No. 5
Act 2:
9. No. 6
10. No. 7
11. No. 8
12. No. 9
13. No. 10
14. No. 11
15. No. 12 – Bolero, Hilda’s solo
16. No. 13
CD 2
Act 3:
1. No. 14 – Pastorale
2. No. 15
3. No. 16
4. No. 17
5. No. 18
6. Birthe’s solo
7.
8. No. 19
9. No. 20 – Finale
10. Polonaise
11. Trio
12. Polonaise
13. Andantino, Allegretto grazioso
14. Moderato – gentleman’s solo
15. Allegro non troppo
16. Polonaise, Coda
17. Bridal Waltz
E. Helsted and H.S. Paulli
Pas de deux from the Flower Festival in Genzano
18. Introduction
19. Pas de deux
20. 1st Gentleman’s solo
21. 1st Lady’s solo
22. 2nd Gentleman’s solo
23. 2nd Lady’s solo – Coda
August Bournonville 1805-1879 ©
While Bournonville had mainly divided his energies artistically from 1830 some way into the 1850s between the major, ambitious romantic and historical ballets on the one hand and the more realistic and entertaining vaudeville ballets and independent divertissements on the other, in the 1860s his creative powers were primarily devoted to two great Norse-mythology ballets, The Valkyrie (1861) and The Lay of Thrym (1868), both created to magnificent scores by J.P.E. Hartmann. Another pioneering work that can be mentioned is The Mountain Hut (1858), where
Bournonville was clearly influenced by modern Nordic literature.
The work with the opera led Bournonville to Richard Wagner, and in collaboration with the conductor H.S. Paulli he introduced the German composer to the Danish national theatre with
Lohengrin in 1870, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1872 and Tannhäuser in 1875.
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 636-637
EAN: 5709499636374