No one did more for Danish music in his lifetime than Launy Grondahl. In these radio recordings from the 1950s, he conducted unfamiliar works by the father of the classical tradition in Denmark, J.P.E. Hartmann. This music for the stage presents both the light and the serious sides of the 'Nordic tone' which inflected music in Denmark up to the time of Nielsen and beyond. The Nielsen influence emerges in two movements from the First Symphony by his pupil Poul Schierbeck, and then in a ceremonial cantata which was performed annually to mark Denmark's national day. Composed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the cantata by Jens Laurson Emborg belongs to it's dark time, and yet it also captures enduring characteristics of the Danish spirit. Album Tracks 1. Yrsa, Op. 78~Overture 2. Yrsa, Op. 78~With slow cunning the Queen of the Rivers Avenges the Ymer Giant 3. Yrsa, Op. 78~Chorus of Mermaids Don't be sad any longer! 4. Yrsa, Op. 78~Interlude Freya and Yrsa 5. Yrsa, Op. 78~Conclusion 6. Summer Day, Idyll for soloists, women's choir and orchestra 7. Folk Tale~Prelude to Act 2 8. Day of the Seven Sleepers~Act 1 - Prelude 9. Day of the Seven Sleepers~How good it is to sit here 10. Day of the Seven Sleepers~Act 2 - Prelude Summer Evening at Gurre 11. Day of the Seven Sleepers~King Volmer goes hunting 12. Day of the Seven Sleepers~Soon the Night is Gone 13. Funeral March for Bertel Thorvaldsen for five brass instruments, organ and timpani 14. Symphony No. 1, Op. 15~II. Lento 15. Symphony No. 1, Op. 15~III. Allegretto molto comodo e quasi indolente (Dolce far niente) 1. Constitution Cantata, Op. 55~Law creates society, society creates law - A safeguard against abuse - Not according to the whims of great men 2. Constitution Cantata, Op. 55~In the Danish towns here and there - The annals of history - The right to think 3. Constitutio