Grondahl The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Launy Grondahl Legacy 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

During her college years, vocalist performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Patti Page & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - she presents a collection of memorable standards, backed-up by Rick Haydon, Tom Kennedy, Jeff Hamilton, Todd Strait & others

Danish conductor and composer Launy Grøndahl (1886-1960) was the leading figure developing the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra all from the very first beginning of the orchestra in the 1920s until his retirement in 1956. He was also a truly original composer with links to Carl Nielsen and back to Mendelssohn, however with a certain flair for the French impressionism. The new series of releases will contain every single recording which can be found of Grøndahl, both live and studio recordings as well as his commercial releases. The present volume invites us into the rhapsodic, mercurial world of Launy Grøndahl featuring four concertos, a tone-poem and a symphony, covering the whole span of this Danish conductor-composer's creative output.

The first (almost) complete recording of Nielsen's comic masterpiece, plus a previously unreleased fairy-tale rarity, under the inspirational baton of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra's founder-conductor. Launy Grøndahl knew both Carl Nielsen and Knud Jeppesen personally he conducted their music with unrivalled sympathy and passion. His 1954 recording of Maskarade is full of native wit and simple joys, while Aesop's fable of The Eagle and the Beetle is dramatized as a typically Danish morality-tale of revenge on the high and mighty. Volume 5 is in preparation for a 2021 and will have Grøndahl conducting 4 Danish symphonies and two orchestral suites.