KING FREDERIK IX CONDUCTS THE DANISH NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Hakon Børresen, composer
Niels Wilhelm Gade, composer
Edvard Grieg, composer
Richard Wagner, composer

Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR
King Frederik IX, conductor


Reviews
Denmark's King Frederik IX was an accomplished amateur musician ... The results, however need no apology. The Danish musicians, for one, clearly go the extra mile for thier monarch, playing their hearts out in the slowish but resonant Wagner Tannhäuser and Rienzi Overtures. Both conductor and orchestra, in fact, imbue the obsessive rhythmic patterns throughout Beethoven's Seventh Symphony with greater definition and backbone than many world-class versions that crowd the catalog (ClassicsToday) [Read full review]
Credits
Recorded at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 1949-54

Digital editing and CEDAR processing: Claus Byrith
Reseach: Valdemar Lønsed and Claus Røllund-Larsen

Cover picture: King Frederik IX conducts the DNRSO in the Radio Concert Hall

These CDs have been released on the occasion of the 90th birthday of HM Queen Ingrid the Queen Mother on 28th March 2000 and have been released in cooperation with Danmarks Radio