Cathrine Penderup - Scandinavian Folk Music - Import 2 CD

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Cathrine Penderup

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A collection of folk songs freely arranged for piano by Danish late romantic Emil Hartmann with Scandinavian dances and melodies! World premiere recording of the complete works! Emil Hartmann (1836-1898), a late Danish Romantic composer, composed many orchestral works such as "The Warriors of Helgeland" Overture, the symphonic poem "Hekon Jarl" and "Cello Concerto", which are included in "A Close Family - Father and Son Composers Vol. 1" (DACOCD 508), and "Piano Concerto" (DACOCD 581). Catherine Penderup, one of Denmark's leading contemporary pianists, has initiated a project to present Emil Hartmann's complete works for solo piano, including unpublished compositions, on a pair of albums. The first album (DACOCD 744745), released in 2013, featured the "original" works and received positive reviews from Diapason and other international media. In this second album, Hartmann performs all 50 of his "Scandinavian Folk Songs" (Op.30), which he "freely arranged for piano".Danish folk songs such as "Amarr's Dance" from the island of Amarr in Chelan; "Halling" and "Springdance (Springal) (Leap Dance)," a folk dance included in "Old and New Norwegian Mountain Melodies" edited by L.M. Lindemann and used by Grieg and others as compositional material. The Swedish dance "Polska". All Under the Sky," which Svendsen used as material for "Two Swedish Folk Songs," and "Dance with Dalarna's Daughter" (Dalarna's Dance), a popular arrangement by Alveen, and "The Judge's Dance," arranged for male chorus by Ott Ohlsson. Hartmann has taken the simple melodies and harmonies of these pieces and made them into beautiful pieces with a sense of structure as "piano music. Tokyo M-Plus