Late romantic Danish works for double bass and piano recorded for the first time.
On the CD:
Ludvig Hegner (1851-1923):
[1] Legende op. 5 8:51
[2] Nocturne op. 6 4:57
Trois Morceaux:
[3] Cavatine 4:27
[4] Menuet dOrphèe 2:00
[5] Fantasie Russe 6:41
[6] Fantasi (über ein Lied von Franz Abt) 7:30
[7] Elegie 6:18
[8] Mazurka de Concert 7:38
[9] Romance 2:32
Franz Neruda (1843-1915):
[10] Berceuse slave (d'après un chant polonaise), op. 11 5:25
Louis Glass (1864-1936):
[11] Nocturne op. 33 8:37
Per Dalsgaard Knudsen, double bass
Karsten Munk, piano
Recording engineer and producer Viggo Mangor
Recorded Musikhuset, Sønderborg 2001
Total playing time 65:03
Ludvig Hegner was a noteworthy figure in all his activities
within the Danish music scene. He was solo player in the Danish Royal Theatre orchestra. In the same orchestra as the Danish
composer Carl Nielsen was playing .
When he was 18 years old he heard Bottesini play, and he was a god friend of
Franz Simandl.
In 1896 Wilhelm Hansen Edition published his double bass school in two volumes.
Ludvig Hegner introduced in his school a four-finger system.
A system Ludvigs grandson Oscar Hegner (1897-1967), and his pupil Niels Henning
Ørsted Pedersen later perfected.
Legende and Nocturne are published
by C.F. Schmidt, Heilbronn a.N.Wilhelm Hansen Edition ( http://www.ewh.dk ) publishes Trois Morceaux, Fantasi, Elegi and Mazurka De Concert.
D. Rahter á Leipzig published Berceuse slave in several versions for violin
and piano, among others.
I found the piece for solo tuned double bass in a hand-written book from
around 1900.
Louis Glass "Nocturne" has being missing until I found it in 2000.
The premiere performance of this piece was in Musikhuset, Sønderborg, November
5, 2000, performed by me and Karsten Munk.
It is a strange and good feeling to make a recording of it on a CD exactly 100
years after it is written.
If anybody want midi files for practising or a copy of the Neruda piece - mail
me.
CD Reviews:
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/d/dcd00593a.html http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogMay02.html http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2002/Apr02/legend.htm http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2002/Apr02/1aApr02-6.htm
Bass World The Journal of the International Society of Bassists, Number one 2002, by Michael
Cameron.
The Strad July 2002, by David Heyes.
Bass News Published by The British & International Bass forum. Spring 2002
by Alex Korda
Double Bassist Number 22 Autumn 2002, by Robin Stowell
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