Gade - The Elf-King’s Daughter, 5 Songs | Dacapo 8226035

Gade - The Elf-King’s Daughter, 5 Songs

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Label: Dacapo

Cat No: 8226035

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 8th March 2019

Contents

Artists

Sophie Junker (soprano)
Ivonne Fuchs (alto)
Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Concerto Copenhagen

Conductor

Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Works

Gade, Niels

Elverskud (Elf-King's Daughter), op.30
Gesange (5), op.13

Artists

Sophie Junker (soprano)
Ivonne Fuchs (alto)
Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Concerto Copenhagen

Conductor

Lars Ulrik Mortensen

About

Elverskud (The Elf-King’s Daughter) is a dramatic cantata from 1854, based on Danish medieval ballads. It became one of Niels W. Gade’s greatest successes, not only in his native Denmark but throughout Europe, where Elverskud was performed several hundred times, often conducted by Gade himself. Gade was especially admired in Germany, and on this album, Elverskud is not only played on period instruments for the first time but is also sung for the first time with the German text that brought the work international fame. Here the cantata is put together with Gade’s breakthrough as an a capella composer, Fünf Gesänge from 1846, also in German. Perhaps this Danish national composer isn’t so Danish after all?

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