Est 1923

Gade Orchestral Works

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Niels (Wilhelm) Gade

Label: CPO

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 69

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: CPO999 362-2

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Echoes from Ossian (Ekterlange af Ossian) Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Ole Schmidt, Conductor
Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra
Hamlet Overture Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Ole Schmidt, Conductor
Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra
(A) Summer's Day in the Country (En sommerdag paa Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Ole Schmidt, Conductor
Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra
Holbergiana Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Niels (Wilhelm) Gade, Composer
Ole Schmidt, Conductor
Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra
Here is another CD to swell the growing Gade discography. The Echoes from Ossian Overture has always been well served on record: it was one of his first works to be recorded in the days of 78s, and there is an alternative version of the Hamlet Overture, on Chandos (3/96). The special interest of this issue is A Summer’s Day in the Country and Holbergiana, neither of which is otherwise available. The former is a five-movement piece, pastoral in character and eminently charming, particularly as played here. The ideas are fresh and the middle movement, “Solitude of the woods”, is touching – as indeed is the delightful “Humoresque” which follows it. Composed for the Hamburg Orchestra in 1879 it apparently filled them with delight as indeed it did me. Holbergiana was commissioned for the bicentenary of the birth of the playwright Ludwig Holberg, sometimes known as “the Moliere of the north”. (This centenary also produced a second commission from Grieg, whose outcome was the familiar suite, From Holberg’s Time, originally written for piano and then subsequently refashioned for strings.) The four movements of Gade’s suite are all inspired by various Holberg plays, the finale, Allegro festivo, evoking Maskarade, to which Nielsen turned for his celebrated opera.
The playing of the Rheinland-Pfalz orchestra under Ole Schmidt is spontaneous, warm and musical. Everyone conveys a sense of pleasure in what they are doing, and the recording is natural and well balanced.'

Gade Orchestral Works

Echoes from Ossian (Ekterlange af Ossian)

Hamlet Overture

(A) Summer's Day in the Country (En sommerdag paa

Holbergiana

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