J.P.E. Hartmann
Yrsa, Op. 78 (1881-82)
1. Overture
2. ‘With slow cunning the Queen of the Rivers Avenges the Ymer Giant’
3. Chorus of Mermaids: ‘Don’t be sad any longer!’
4. Interlude: Freya and Yrsa
5. Conclusion
6. A Summer Day (1854) Idyll for soloists, women’s choir and orchestra
7. A Folk Tale (1854) – Prelude to Act 2
The Day of the Seven Sleepers (1840) Romantic comedy in three acts – excerpts
8. Act 1 – Prelude
9. ’How good it is to sit here’ (Balthasar’s aria)
10. Act 2 – Prelude: Summer Evening at Gurre
11. ‘King Volmer goes hunting’ (Anna’s aria)
12. Soon the Night is Gone’ (Hunters’ Chorus)
13. Funeral March for Bertel Thorvaldsen (1844)
Poul Schierbeck
Symphony No. 1, Op. 15 (1917-21) – excerpts
14. II. Lento
15. III. Allegretto molto comodo e quasi indolente (Dolce far niente)
CD 2
Poul Schierbeck
Constitution Cantata, Op. 55 (1941)
1. ’Law creates society, society creates law’ – ‘A safeguard against abuse’ – ‘Not according to the whims of great men’
2. In the Danish towns here and there’ – ’The annals of history’ – ‘The right to think‘
3. ’It was then that the June sky turned blue’
4. ’This law is the foundation’
5. ’The land we were given’
6. ’We live in the present’ – ’Look how blue the summer sky’
7. ’We must treasure the great, amidst the hardships of the present’
8. ‘We love the sea, the wind, everything that flows freely’
9. ‘Our folk saga through a thousand years’
Jens Laursøn Emborg
Our Mother Earth, Op. 91 (1941)
10. The Song of Life (Larsen)
11. Sower (Aakjær)
12. Spring (Aakjær)
13. Love (Larsen)
14. With a Cycle (Aakjær)
15. South Wind (Aakjær)
16. Picture (Larsen)
17. Rainy weather mood (Aakjær)
18. Work! (Aakjær)
19. Morning Dew (Aakjær)
20. Before Dawn (Larsen)
21. There’s a Word/Farmer’s Wedding (Aakjær)
22. The Invalid and Christ (Aakjær)
23. ‘The Norns (Larsen)
24. The Song of the Winds (Aakjær)
25. By the North Sea (Aakjær)
26. Child and Mother (Aakjær)
27. The Sparrows at the Holy Ghost (Aakjær)
J.P.E. Hartmann ©
A lighter version of the Nordic tone inflects Hartmann’s comic opera of 1840, The Day of the Seven Sleepers. In his libretto, the Danish playwright, poet and theatre director Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) drew on the legend of the 14th-century Danish king Valdemar Atterdag as also immortalised by Jens Peter Jacobsen in his novella A cactus blooms. The title of Hartmann’s comedy refers to the seven Christians from Ephesus who were walled up in a cave by the Roman emperor Decius during the Christian persecutions in 249-251, and miraculously awoke 200 years later. The event is marked liturgically in Denmark on June 27, which in 1840 coincided with the Coronation of King Christian VIII on the following day. First staged at the Royal Theater shortly after the Coronation, the comedy plays on this coincidence of dates.
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 2025
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 899
EAN: 5709499899008
