Langaard: The End of Time

On this CD:

1. The End of Time, Concert Piece for soloists, chorus & orchestra
Composed by Rued Langgaard
Performed by Stig Fogh Andersen, Per Hoeyer, Nina Pavlovski
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

2. From the Song of Solomon, for 2 soloists, female chorus & orchestra, BVN 381
Composed by Rued Langgaard
Performed by Stig Fogh Andersen, Nina Pavlovski
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

3. Interdik I Ribe Domkirke (At the grave of Christopher I in Ribe Cathedral), BVN 335
Composed by Rued Langgaard
Performed by Per Salo
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

4. Carl Nielsen, Our Great Composer, BVN 335
Composed by Rued Langgaard

Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Langaard: The End of Time, Music, Per Høyer, Rued Langgaard, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Per Salo, Nina Pavlovski, Stig Fogh Andersen, Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Classical Vocals, Orchestral, Orchestral Music

Average customer rating:

Less could be more........

Eccentric, Romantic, Must Be Langgaard

Langaard: The End of Time

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00003XB24
Release Date: 2000-02-22

Customer Reviews:

Less could be more...............2000-11-16

Could you imagine that someone could compose a musical work that was called `I Hate Leonard Bernstein' for solists, choir and orchestra in 14 movements when he is so loved - I think - in the US? That's exactly what Langgaard did, although one of the works on this disc is loosely called `I hate Carl Nielsen'; then and now that's blasphemy in Denmark.

He was jealous on Nielsen's success but he never could understand that success comes with hard work, using your talents and diplomacy and not with too writing many works, not much talent and irritating behaviour.

So we must be lucky we can `enjoy' all his symphonies (Danacord) and some of his vocal-orchestral works on Chandos. I liked the other disc with Music of the Spheres (`Sfaerernes Musik' also on Chandos) more than this one.

This one sounds like driving drunk in a car - you have just said `no' to the most beautiful woman you've ever met - in an endless tunnel, bumping from wall to wall, thinking you meet her again tomorrow, which will never happen.

Eccentric, Romantic, Must Be Langgaard.......2000-10-08

With Neeme Järvi's nearly decade-old grouping of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies (also on Chandos), the present anthology, under Gennady Rozhdestvensky, offers a good introduction to the quirky late-romantic world of the Danish composer Rued Langgaard (1893-1952). Like two Danes of a younger generation, Vagn Holmboe and NielsViggo Bentzon, Langgaard wrote copiously; unlike them, he received only sporadic attention during his frustrated lifetime and never really became a central figure in Danish music. Langgaard felt a good deal of resentment over what he considered his exclusion and this resentment tended to focus on Carl Nielsen. Hence the shortest and oddest of the items in the present program, the brief orchestral-choral piece called, after its single line of verse, sung over and over ad infinitum, "Carl Nielsen: Vår Store Komponist" ("Our Great Composer"), written in 1948. "Interdict" (1947/48) is a tone-poem for orchestra with organ; the program reflects Langgaard's sense of loneliness as the Cathdral organist at Ribe, a provincial post. The language mixes Liszt, Wagner, and Richard Strauss, but the accent is Danish and it is Langgaard's own. The largest offering is a cantata, "Endens Tid" ("The End of Time" or "The End-Time" [1939]), reworked from the opera "Antikrist," which occupied the composer for most of his active life. In four sections, the conception is symphonic, with the orchestra often bearing much of the burden; the final section, "Katastrofen," when the Antichrist actually succeeds in destroying the world, rivals the final scene of Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" in raising one's gooseflesh. We also get to hear a setting from "The Song of Solomon." Anyone partial to twentieth century continuations of the romantic tradition in music will find nourishment in Rued Langgaard and in this disc. (If it appeals to you, seek out "Sfaerenes Musik," also on Chandos, and "Sinfonia Interna," on Da Capo.)

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