Nielsen: The Mother, Op. 41, FS 94 Classical Dacapo

Nielsen: The Mother, Op. 41, FS 94

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Nielsen: The Mother, Op. 41, FS 94

Label Catalogue Number:
6.220648

Running Time: 01:11:27

Release Date: July 2020
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical

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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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Reviews

Critics’ Choice 2021 – Roger Hecht

American Record Guide – January/February 2022

“… There’s so much to love. Tenor and bass soloists Adam Riis and Palle Knudsen are glorious in their many solo numbers; the former’s “Like Golden Amber Is My Girl” a highlight. The “Echo Song” just before the close is another treat, a distillation of Nielsen fingerprints… Nielsen was a wonderfully catchy melodist. Andreas Delfs leads a performance brimming with affection, his Odense Symphony Orchestra collaborating with a sizeable cast of instrumentalists, singers and speakers… It’s all enchanting. If you’re a Nielsen fan (and if not, why not?) you need this disc.”

Graham Rickson – theartsdesk.com – 22 August 2020

“…Throughout, the mood is good-natured and there seldom is a hint of Nielsen's later style Performances are exemplary. The recording was made in the Carl Nielsen Concert House in Odense January/February 2020, and the engineering is excellent. A 40-page booklet is provided with profuse program notes and complete texts and translations. This is an important addition to the Nielsen discography.”

Robert Benson – ClassicalCDReview.com – August 2020

"... it is easy to surrender to the performance itself, which has all the undemonstratice commend of the idiom that we would expect from the main orchestra of the composer's native island, and there are characterful contributions from all the vocal and instrumental soloists. Nielsenites such as myself will lap this up and hope that it may herald further explorations of the composer's plentiful unrecorded incidental music."

David Fanning - Gramophone magazine - September 2020

“… A very fine performance of appealing, almost “easy listening” Nielsen.”

Jim Westhead – MusicWeb-International.com – 13 August 2020

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