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String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major :
Andante maestoso - Allegro con bri...
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String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major :
Andante maestoso - Allegro con brio
Allegretto grazioso
Sostenuto
Vivace.
There are now, as there have always been, very, very few recordings of the chamber music of Arthur Bliss. This is not for want of quality: Bliss was a supremely skilled composer whose works had a large international audience between the two world wars and whose chamber works are as brilliant and moving as the chamber works of Elgar, Walton, or Vaughan Williams. But as with so much brilliant and moving music, there is only so much room for great music on the shelves of record collectors, and Bliss has been pushed off the shelf by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. This is a shame because this disc of chamber music by Bliss is as lovely and affecting as any disc released around the same time. Bliss' Quartet in B flat is as beautiful a quartet as was composed in the '20s, with fluent writing and a heart-rending Sostenuto slow movement, his Conversations for winds and strings is sprightly and touching, and his early Quartet in A major is energetic and enthusiastic with a graceful closing Allegro vivace. The performances by England's Maggini Quartet, along with wind players Nicholas Daniel and Michael Cox, are dedicated and completely convincing.
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Arthur Bliss - String Quartet in A major:
Moderato ma tranquillo
Andante ...
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Arthur Bliss - String Quartet in A major:
Moderato ma tranquillo
Andante sostenuto
Allegro vivace con grazia.
There are now, as there have always been, very few recordings of the chamber music of Arthur Bliss. This is not for want of quality: Bliss was a supremely skilled composer whose works had a large international audience between the two world wars and whose chamber works are as brilliant and moving as the chamber works of Elgar, Walton, or Vaughan Williams. But as with so much brilliant and moving music, there is only so much room for great music on the shelves of record collectors, and Bliss has been pushed off the shelf by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. This is a shame because this disc of chamber music by Bliss is as lovely and affecting as any disc released around the same time. Bliss' Quartet in B flat is as beautiful a quartet as was composed in the '20s, with fluent writing and a heart-rending Sostenuto slow movement, his Conversations for winds and strings is sprightly and touching, and his early Quartet in A major is energetic and enthusiastic with a graceful closing Allegro vivace. The performances by England's Maggini Quartet, along with wind players Nicholas Daniel and Michael Cox, are dedicated and completely convincing.
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, (2 August 1891 -- 27 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.
Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he quickly became known as an unconventional and modernist composer, but within the decade he began to display a more traditional and romantic side in his music. In the 1920s and 1930s he composed extensively not only for the concert hall, but also for films and ballet.
In the Second World War, Bliss returned to England from the US to work for the BBC and became its director of music. After the war he resumed his work as a composer, and was appointed Master of the Queen's Music.
In Bliss's later years, his work was respected but was thought old-fashioned, and it was eclipsed by the music of younger colleagues such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten. Since his death, his compositions have been well represented on record, and many of his better-known works remain in the repertoire of British orchestras.
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Otto Mortensen (1907-1986)
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1947)
Max Artved, O...
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Otto Mortensen (1907-1986)
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1947)
Max Artved, Oboe
Per Salo, Piano
I Moderato
II Allegro vivace
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Ludolf Nielsen String Quartet No. 3 in C major, Op. 41:
Allegretto pastor...
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Ludolf Nielsen String Quartet No. 3 in C major, Op. 41:
Allegretto pastorale.
Allegro moderato grazioso.
Adagio con dolore.
Allegro.
Aros Quartet:
Ida Lorenzen, violin.
Tina Træholt, violin.
Dorthe Byrialsen, viola.
Birgitte Øland, violincello.
Ludolf Nielsen grew up in the countryside where his father was a farmer. Even as a child he showed musical facility and got violin lessons at the local folk. The family emphasized that his sons should have good education. Two of his brothers became respectively. physician and veterinarian, and eight years old was Ludolf Nielsen, a student of music teachers in nearby Naestved. He soon began playing at parties, and the dream of becoming a professional musician was really done when he was 16-year-old came to Copenhagen and became a student of the later concert master at the Royal. Chapel Ludvig Holm.
1895 Ludolf Nielsen won a scholarship at the music conservatory. For three years he received instruction in violin, piano and theory of such Valdemar Tofte, and immediately after discharge, he joined the Tivoli orchestra. From these years come his earliest compositions, besides songs and pieces for piano or violin summer evening choral work with lyrics by John Jorgensen, it was premiered 1898 "at the Academy Examen under own management."
In Tivoli and in winter at the Palace concerts seemed Ludolf Nielsen the next ten years as a solo viola player, and occasionally also as a conductor, as he helped to found Bjørvig Quartet. But while he made for himself as a composer. String Quartet No. 1 (JC No. 14 [1]) was first performed the 1900th 1902 was the symphonic poem Regnar Lodbrog (JC No. 17, 1901) premiered at Tivoli by Joachim Andersen. And the following year he conducted himself premiere of his first Symphony (JC No. 20, 1903) in Danish Concert Association.
Fertile years
Although self-taught as a composer Ludolf Nielsen was a talent, you bet on. He got a scholarship which took him to Leipzig 1903-04. Here was his symphonic picture Night Atmosphere (JC 21, 1903) premiered, and one of the leading publishers Breitkopf & Härtel, published his first two string quartets (JC 14, 1900, JC No. 23, 1904). Back in Copenhagen continued flow of compositions and rapid premieres with such solo works for violin and cello and the symphonic suite from the mountains (JC No. 25, 1905), and 1907 won Ludolf Nielsen, by Asger Hamerik printed Composer Competition with his Concert Overture (JC No. 30, 1906).
It was rewarded with a three-year artist grant from the state and the Ancker scholarship. Ludolf Nielsen ended his career as an orchestral musician, married and went on a combined wedding and trip to Germany, Austria and Italy.
After his return struck the couple settled in (then still) rural surroundings in Hellerup, and now followed a series of fruitful years until the outbreak of the first World War II. Ludolf Nielsen was industrious and composed songs, piano music and orchestral works in abundance. But he was also ambitious and aimed high: With the operas Isbella (JC No. 31.1903-07) and clock (JC No. 52, 1908-11) he tried to establish itself as a musical dramatist. And with the symphonies No. 2 (JC 39, 1909) and No. 3 (JC No. 58, 1911-13), he sought to realize the dream of late Romantic music as a vehicle for a philosophical view of life.
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Ludolf Nielsen String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 5
Lento maestoso. All...
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Ludolf Nielsen String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 5
Lento maestoso. Allegro moderato.
Scherzo. Allegro amabile.
Andante lento.
Andante maestoso.
Aros Quartet:
Ida Lorenzen, violin.
Tina Træholt, violin.
Dorthe Byrialsen, viola.
Birgitte Øland, violincello.
Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen (29 January 1876 in North Tvede - 16 October 1939 in Copenhagen) was a Danish composer. He had his roots in the Danish peasant culture. He was born on a farm in the village of North Tvede, near Naestved. He learned to play violin by the local men play, but was from 8 years of age sent to a real music teacher in Næstved. Even as a child he played for weddings and other festive events.
After an initial training of teachers play in Naestved got Ludolf Nielsen as well 15-year-old first violinist in the Royal Chapel, Ludvig Holm as a teacher of violin and later taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, with particular Valdemar Tofte, Albert Orth and Jorgen Ditleff Bondesen as teachers.
After his graduation from the academy played Ludolf Nielsen for 10 years as a solo viola player in the Tivoli Concert Hall Orchestra, whose conductor at that time was Joachim Andersen. He also served on several occasions to replace the conductor podium, and was one time permanent conductor of the Concert Association of Euphrosyne. Alongside this activity, he was a member of a string quartet. In the late 1920s, he joined the DR music department where he organized the orchestra materials of old Danish music for the young radio orchestra. The work consisted of amortization of original manuscripts and printing of new purpose-related scores and orchestral parts.
In 1907 Ludolf Nielsen won first prize in a contest with his Concert Overture up. 13, the same year he received the Ancker scholarship and visited on his study tour of Germany, Austria and Italy.
Ludolf Nielsen's work range of 61 opus numbers includes music of many genres: 3 operas, 2 ballets, 3 symphonies, several symphonic poems, piano music, chamber music (3 string quartets), korkompositioner and songs and a few organ works.
The music is often dramatic and illustrative with a strong use of all orchestra instruments, but also with musikantisk and ingratiating melodic sequence. Ludolf Nielsen is now regarded as one of the Danish senromantiks best composers, and many of his works are recorded on CD.
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