Odense Symphony Orchestra, Andreas Delfs – Nielsen – The Mother, Op. 41, FS 94 (2020)
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Carl Nielsen’s incidental music The Mother was written for a gala celebrating the reunification of Southern Jutland with Denmark. The score first appeared in print in 2007 and has never been recorded in its entirety. This recording places the music in the right context for the first time, therefore providing us with a new picture of Carl Nielsen as a composer for the theatre. Carl Nielsen uses familiar songs in the play, including the Danish national anthem as well as a curious use of the national anthems from the allied countries that, with their attacks on Germany, determined the fate of Southern Jutland. The Mother unites these diverse trends: the national interest, the popular song and the cooperation with the Royal Theatre, where Nielsen himself had begun his career as a violinist and had later become a conductor.
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Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Andreas Delfs – Madsen & Egilstrøð: Beinta (2022)
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Attend the tale of Beinta Broberg. So dark an aura gathered around this unfortunate seventeenth-century soul that she became known on her native Faroe Islands as “Wicked Beinta”. “I think that society reacted to her rebellious spirit by trying to stain her reputation, by casting her out and portraying her as a kind of falle nwoman”, says Faroese singer and electronic composer Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð. Composed by Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð and Allan Gravgaard Madsen, the symphonic song cycle’s introspective, veiled songs are couched within a mostly passive-aggressive orchestral landscape: not a roaring and surging ensemble but a brittle, desolate and minutely changeable one.
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