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Frederick Delius - Danish Masterworks

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Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

[ 1 ]	En Arabesk (1911) An Arabesque for baritone, chorus and orchestra (Jens Peter Jacobsen) (Dedicated to Halfdan Jebe)	12:42

	Five Danish Songs (Orchestrated by Bo Holten)
[ 2 ]	Pagen højt paa Taarnet sad The Page sat in the lofty Tower (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	1:18
[ 3 ]	Vi lo jo for saa længe In Bliss we walked with Laughter (Holger Drachmann)	2:47
[ 4 ]	To brune Øjne Two Brown Eyes (Hans Christian Andersen)	1:25
[ 5 ]	Jeg hører i Natten I Hear in the Night (Holger Drachmann)	1:54
[ 6 ]	Far, hvor flyver Svanerne hen (1900) Autumn (Ludvig Holstein) - Sound bites: MP3 / Help	3:36

	Seven Danish Songs (1897)
[ 7 ]	Silkesko over gylden Læst Silken Shoes (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	1:44
[ 8 ]	Irmelin Rose (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	3:33
[ 9 ]	Lyse Nætter Summer Nights (Holger Drachmann) - Sound bites: MP3 / Help	2:49
[10]	I Seraillets Have In the Seraglio Garden (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	3:32
[11]	Løft de klingre Glaspokaler Wine Roses (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	2:30
[12]	Det bødes der for Through Long, Long Years (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	1:51
[13]	Lad Vaaren komme Let Springtime Come (Jens Peter Jacobsen)	1:57

[14]	Intermezzo from the opera Fennimore and Gerda (1908/13) (Preludes to Scenes 10 & 12 arranged 1936 by Eric Fenby)	5:18

	Two Danish Songs (1897)
[15]	Viol (1900) The Violet (Ludvig Holstein)	1:50
[16]	Sommer i Gurre (1902/03) Summer Landscape (Holger Drachmann)	3:13

[17]	Sakuntala (1889) (Holger Drachmann)	4:58

[18]	Lebenstanz (1899/1912) Life's Dance (Holger Drachmann)	13:19

Henriette Bonde-Hansen, soprano [2] - [13]
Johan Reuter, baritone [1], [15] - [17]
The Danish National Opera Chorus and Aarhus Chamber Choir [1]
(Chorus master: Bo Holten)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Bo Holten, conductor

Review:
It¹s a wonderful recording, and Bo Holten and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra seem to have got it absolutely right. In fact the orchestra sounds as if it has been playing Delius for years, so completely has it got itself into that very particular idiom. The last of the Five Songs - "Autumn" - is quite marvellously done. So Bo hasn¹t let us down after the first four - rather he¹s surpassed himself in finishing on a splendid high note. As for "Lebenstanz", for me it¹s the finest ever, and it has all the immediacy of a concert performance.
Reuter¹s fine, whilst Bonde-Hansen is out of this world.