Composer: Antonín Dvořák, Niels Wilhelm Gade, George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Orchestra: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Thomas Jensen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Danacord
Catalogue: DACOCD915
Release: 2021
Size: 631 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
02. I. Allegro molto appassionato
03. II. Andante – Allegretto non troppo
04. III. Allegro molto vivace
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 ‘Scottish’
05. I. Andante con moto – Allegro un poco agitato
06. II. Vivace non troppo
07. III. Adagio
08. IV. Allegro vivacissimo – Allegro maestoso assai
Handel: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 2 in F major, HWV320
09. I. A tempo giusto
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Adagio
12. IV. Allegro
13. V. Allegro
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 ‘Elvira Madigan’
14. I. Allegro maestoso
15. II. Andante
16. III. Allegro vivace assai
Gade: Novelletten, Op. 53
17. I. Andantino – Allegro vivace e grazioso
18. II. Scherzo: Moderato
19. III. Andantino con molto
20. IV. Allegro vivace
21. Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
All-new remasterings of live and previously unissued recordings: a Mendelssohn concert from 1962 demonstrates Thomas Jensen’s undimmed power to galvanize an orchestra towards the end of his life. From his very last concert, given a fortnight before his death in 1963, works by Handel and Mozart find him (and pianist Annie Fischer) on fluent, sparkling form. Novelettes by “the Danish Mendelssohn”, Niels W. Gade, make a neat coupling, and the set closes with the Dvorák Overture which launched the DRSO on the international scene. Another landmark album in the wider appreciation of a conductor whose legacy has been too narrowly restricted to the music of his homeland.