Composer: Niels Viggo Bentzon, Gunnar Berg, Hans Werner Henze, Vagn Holmboe, Arthur Honegger, Carl August Nielsen, Sergey Prokofiev, Ole Schmidt
Performer: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, Carla Henius, Wandy Tworek
Orchestra: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tivoli Concert Hall Orchestra
Conductor: Thomas Jensen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Danacord
Catalogue: DACOCD924
Release: 2022
Size: 743 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Schmidt: Symphony No. 1, Op. 14a
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Allegro molto
03. III. Allegro
04. Holmboe: Monolith, Op. 76, M. 207
05. Berg: Hymnos for Strings
06. Bentzon: Symphonic Variations, Op. 92
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, FS119
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Andante
09. III. Allegretto
Henze: Nachtstücke und Arien
10. No. 1, Nachtstücke I
11. No. 2, Wohin wir uns wenden im Gewitter der Rosen (Sung in German)
12. No. 3, Nachtstücke II
13. No. 4, Mit schlaftrunkenen Vögeln (Sung in German)
14. No. 5, Nachtstücke III
Honegger: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, H. 202
15. I. Grave
16. II. Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto
17. III. Allegro marcato
Nielsen: Saul and David, FS 25, Act II
18. Prelude
Nielsen: Moderen, Op. 94
19. No. 19, Prelude
Nielsen: Masquerade
20. Hanedans
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
21. I. Allegro moderato
22. II. Andante assai
23. III. Allegro, ben marcato
The transfers have produced fine sounding results. I hope that Jensen Legacy fatigue syndrome has not set in…as this series continues, as it can still spring surprises and introduce contemporary repertoire that will prove historically valuable and musically satisfying in expert performances.
Previously unpublished broadcasts of 20th-century music, not only by figures closely associated with Thomas Jensen such as Carl Nielsen and Niels Viggo Bentzon, but also Ole Schmidt and Gunnar Berg, who wrote outside the Danish mainstream. Jensen’s catholic taste and sympathy with diverse strands in European modernism is attested by his careful shaping of masterpiece by Henze, Honegger and Prokofiev.