The Launy Grondahl Legacy, Vol. 9

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Release Date
July 4, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Jens Laurson Emborg, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Poul Schierbeck
    • PERFORMER
      The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Otte Svendsen, Erik Sjoberg, Ruth Guldbaek, Dorothy Larsen, Syl
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 04, 2025
    • UPC
      5709499889008
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DACOCD889
    • LABEL
      Danacord
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Overture

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: female section Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    2. II. With slow cunning the Queen of the Rivers Avenges the Ymer Giant

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: female section Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    3. III. Chorus of Mermaids: Don't be sad any longer!

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: female section Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    4. IV. Interlude: Freya and Yrsa

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: female section Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    5. V. Conclusion

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: female section Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    6. En sommerdag (A Summer Day)

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Anonymous, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Anonymous

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    7. A Folk Tale, Act II: Prelude

      Composer: Niels Wilhelm Gade, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    8. Act I: Prelude

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    9. Act I: Aria: How good it is to sit here

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Otte Svendsen

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    10. Act II: Prelude

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    11. Act II: Aria: King Volmer goes hunting

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ruth Guldbæk

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    12. Act II: Hunter's Chorus: Soon the night is gone

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    13. Sorgemarch ved Thorvaldsens bisaettelse (Funeral march for Thorvaldsen's Burial)

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Palle Alsfelt

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    14. II. Lento molto

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    15. III. Allegretto molto comodo e quasi indolente (dolce far niente)

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    16. Law creates society, society creates law - A safeguard against abuse - Not according to the whims of great men

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ellen Malberg, Svend Methling

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    17. In the Danish towns here and there - The annals of history - The right to think

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Holger Norgaard

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    18. It was then that the June sky turned blue

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    19. This law is the foundation

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Holger Norgaard

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    20. The land we were given

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    21. We live in the present Look how blue the summer sky

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ellen Malberg

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    22. We must treasure the great, amidst the hardships of the present

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Svend Methling

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    23. We love the sea, the wind, everything that flows freely

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sylvia Schierbeck

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    24. Our folk saga through a thousand years

      Composer: Poul Schierbeck

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Boys Choir, Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    25. The Song of Life

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    26. Sower

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Erik Sjoberg

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    27. Spring

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dorothy Larsen, Lilian Weber-Hansen

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    28. Love

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johannes Astrup

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    29. With a Cycle

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Erik Sjoberg

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    30. South Wind

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dorothy Larsen, Lilian Weber-Hansen, Erik Sjoberg, Johannes Astrup

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    31. Picture

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dorothy Larsen

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    32. Rainy Weather Mood

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johannes Astrup

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    33. Work!

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    34. Morning Dew

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dorothy Larsen, Erik Sjoberg

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    35. Before Dawn

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johannes Astrup

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    36. There's a Word - Farmer's Wedding

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    37. The Invalid and Christ

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johannes Astrup

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    38. The Norns

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Lilian Weber-Hansen

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    39. The Song of the Winds

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Erik Sjoberg

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    40. By the North Sea

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    41. Child and Mother

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dorothy Larsen

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl

    42. The Sparrows at the Holy Ghost

      Composer: Jens Laursøn Emborg

      Ensemble: Danish Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dorothy Larsen, Johannes Astrup

      Conductor: Launy Grøndahl


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.