Various Artists - Historical Danish Female Pianists Play / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Danacord continues it's tribute to the Danish cellist Erling Blondal Bengtsson. For this third volume of recordings emanating from Danish Radio Bengtsson plays a selection of solo sonatas and is also heard collaborating with friends and relations in a diverse choice of chamber pieces, from Schumann to Thybo. By complete contrast there is also Bloch's mighty Schelomo, his Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and large orchestra. This 2-disc set offers a further feast of Bengtsson's resourcefulness and sterling musicianship.

The duo's second album on Solo Musica celebrates the song repertoire of women composers from Romanticism to Contemporary Music with 24 songs by 24 women composers. The Swiss soprano Franziska HEINZEN and British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin MEAD set out to research the work of women composers for Clara SCHUMANN's bicentenary in 2019 - and discovered a valuable treasure of relatively unknown music. Beginning with a life journey through refreshing spring feelings, the album goes on to describe painful hours of loneliness and uncertainty as well as anxious premonitions of death and dark fears. Five examples of self-confident female characters, whose experiences are concluded with wiser, reflections on life, as seen retrospectively. Album Tracks 1. June Twilight 2. Heure Exquise 3. Laue Sommernacht 4. Ah, Love, But a Day 5. Am Strande 6. Mélodies (10), for voice & piano~Le Regard Éternel 7. Hilf Mir! 8. Mélodies (4) for voice & piano~Le Bonheur S'Effeuille et Passe 9. Insel der Vergessenheit 10. Dying Is Fine) But Death 11. Warum Sind Denn Die Rosen So Blass 12. Night Dances~Sleep, Mourner, Sleep! 13. Ballades (4) de Paul Fort~Le Diable Dans la Nuit 14. Yellow Leaves~Farewell 15. Alma Phantasien~Nur der Seinen Leben 16. Ophelia's Song 17. Loreley 18. Poèmes (5) for voice & piano~Le Sommeil de Leïlah 19. Song of a Nightclub Proprietress 20. Ewige Liebe 21. Écouter et ne Rien Entendre 22. Ob Ich Manchmal Dein Gedenke 23. Ma Première Lettre 24. Remembrance

Album Tracks 1. Novellette in 6 Small Movements 2. Novellette in 6 Small Movements 3. Novellette in 6 Small Movements 4. Novellette in 6 Small Movements 5. Novellette in 6 Small Movements 6. Novellette in 6 Small Movements 7. From a Sketchbook Fuglekvidder in a Major 8. From a Sketchbook Friedigt Mod in D Major 9. From a Sketchbook Stille Tanker in G Major 10. From a Sketchbook Melodie in C Major 11. From a Sketchbook Brevduen in G Major 12. From a Sketchbook Romanze in F Major 13. From a Sketchbook Hilsen in D Major 14. From a Sketchbook Sommerstemning in G Major 15. Fantasia 16. Serenade for Piano 17. Serenade for Piano 18. Ogier the Dane (Song Without Words) for Piano 19. Ogier the Dane (Song Without Words) for Piano 20. Ogier the Dane (Song Without Words) for Piano 21. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 22. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 23. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 24. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 25. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 26. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 27. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 28. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 29. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 30. Sketches for Piano, Op. 21 31. Lyrical Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 26 32. Lyrical Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 26 33. Lyrical Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 26 34. Lyrical Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 26 35. Piano Pieces, Op. 66 36. Piano Pieces, Op. 66 37. Piano Pieces, Op. 66 38. Piano Pieces, Op. 66 39. Piano Notebook, Op. 7 40. Piano Notebook, Op. 7 41. Piano Notebook, Op. 7 1. The Nightingale 2. Piano Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 127 3. Piano Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 127 4. Piano Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 127 5. Variations on the Danish Folksong 'King Christian,' for Piano, Op. 16 6. Variations on the Austrian Folksong 'Unsa Kaz Had Kaz'in Gehabt,' for Piano, Op. 42/6 7. Variations on the Austrian Folksong 'Unsa Kaz Had Ka