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The Mermaid (Da Capo Audio CD)

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Catalogue No: 8226048
Shop Product Code: 205452Y

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Department: CDs - Classical CDs

Publisher: Select Music

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AUGUST ENNA; ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Den lille pige med svovstikkerne (Little Match Girl); Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)
Danish National Children's Choir / DR

Inger Dam-Jensen, soprano
Ylva Kihlberg, soprano

August Enna, composer

Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR
Danish National Choir / DR
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

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When the bicentenary of the birth of the Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen was celebrated in 2005, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR and its chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard were at the forefront with a magnificent musical celebration. This CD release testifies to the meeting between Andersen’s immortal storytelling art and the two Late Romantic composers August Enna and Alexander von Zemlinsky, who drew musical inspiration around 1900 from two of the storyteller’s best loved tales.

Alexander von Zemlinsky´s ravishing tone poem and the one-act opera by August Enna...make an imaginative release to mark the bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen´s birth...Thomas Dausgaard conducts it with with all the affection it needs, and his performance of the richly tectured Zemlinsky...is equally enthusiastic.
(**** The Guardian)

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Contents and Reviews

August Enna (1859-1939)
Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne (1897)
1. Prelude
2. Chorus: Oh what thronging, and what noises!
3. Marie: Buy but one box!
4. Marie: Oh, how I am shivering!
5. The Lady: Little brow, tiny now, But in time ’twill spread and grow,
6. Marie: ’Tis gone, ’tis gone, the lovely dream!
7. Chorus. The Watchmen Hear ye, people, just has the clock struck twelve!
8. Marie: Now they´ve gone away! Oh take me with you!
9. Chorus. Marie and children: One, Two, Three, now you shall see!
10. Marie: The many lights, they’ve all gone out
11. Marie: Mother! Mother! Where art thou, mother?
12. Chorus: The Christ-child in the manger lay

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Die Seejungfrau (1902-03)
1. I Sehr mäßig bewegt
2. II Sehr bewegt, rauschend
3. III Sehr gedehnt, mit schmerzenvollem Ausdruck