NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 1

DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 1

DACOCD 884 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 2

CD 1 [ 8 ] Jeronimus: Kan I være rolige? But the beetle recognised the cry of the eagle and grumbled to himself. He rolled (Jeronimus, Leander, up a ball of dung and clutched it to his chest as he flew off. Did anyone notice the Carl Nielsen (1865 - 1931) Magdelone, Henrik) 5:04 little black beetle and his cargo as he flew over farms, tree trunks, deep blue rivers May we have silence here? and white mountain peaks? The beetle’s wings never rested until the sun went [ 9 ] Jeronimus: Det Satans Spind! 1:11 Maskarade FS 39 (1904-06) down and he spied Zeus’s violet robe. High in the golden sea of air, unseen by Opera in Three Acts The devil’s work! [10] Jeronimus: Fordum var der Fred Zeus, he dropped his ball of dung. It landed right in the shining lap of Zeus. Libretto by Vilhelm Andersen paa Gaden 2:37 What Zeus hates more than anything else is dirt. He leapt up as though he had after Ludvig Holberg (Sung in Danish) Once peace ruled in our streets been stung by a wasp, and shook his robe. In the same instant, the eagle’s eggs [11] Henrik: Hr. Leonard rolled off his lap and fell through the air. Down, down, down they fell, until they Act. 1 47:37 (Henrik, Leonard, Jeronimus) 3:26 smashed against the ground. [ 1 ] Overture 4:03 Mr. Leonard But the beetle hovered high up in the deep blue sky, beyond even the reach of Zeus. [ 2 ] Leander: Aaja, aa ja [12] Arv: Her er jeg, Husbond! (Arv, Jeronimus, Leonard) 0:43 (Leander, Henrik) 2:35 ©Martin Granau 2020 Oh yes, oh yes Here I am, master! [ 3 ] Leander: Se, hvor min Vindveslem [13] Jeronimus: Hvad vilde I paa den (Leander, Henrik) 1:11 fordømte Maskarade? See my window’s golden light (Jeronimus, Henrik, Leonard) 1:20 [ 4 ] Henrik: Herre! Herre! What were you doing at that (Henrik, Leander) 3:58 blasted masquerade? Master! Master! [14] Henrik: I dette Land 1:40 [ 5 ] Henrik: Først kommer fæl og fus In this country (Tamperretsscene) 3:26 [15] Leonard: Hm! Hm! En Kavaller! Enter with fume and fuss (Leonard, Henrik, (Ember Court scene) Jeronimus, Leander) 3:17 [ 6 ] Henrik: Herre! I staar saa stum Hm! Hm! A cavalier! (Henrik, Leander) 2:56 [16] Jeronimus: Hold Mund! Master! You’re so stil (Jeronimus, Henrik, [ 7 ] Magdelone: Er der nogen hjemme? Leander, Arv) 5:34 (Magdelone, Leander, Now shut your mouth! Henrik) 4:29 Is anyone at home? Launy Grøndahl 2 11 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 3

it pushed the eggs towards the edge of the best. One by one, they tumbled out of Act. 2 24:46 [28] Jeronimus: Se saa! Se saa! the nest, and in the blink of an eye smashed on the rocks below. The beetle rested [17] Prelude 4:06 (Jeronimus, Arv) 0:51 awhile, then flew home, buzzing with fury over the fate of the poor hare. [18] Vægteren: Hov Vægter! See here! See here! Klokken er slagen otte! [29] Vægteren: Hov Vægter! (Vægteren, Arv) 3:24 Klokken er slagen ni! 1:22 All that night, the eagle flew screaming around the crags, lamenting the loss of her Ho, watchman! eggs. Then she made a new nest, deep in the forests beyond the icy mountains, Ho, watchman! The clock struck eight! The clock struck nine! where bare pines rot at the roots. [19] Henrik: Ha-a-a! Ha-a-a! CD 2 (Henrik, Arv) 2:10 [12] Now the eagle was not the hunter but the hunted. She guarded her nest in sun Ha-a-a! Ha-a-a! Act. 3 22:31 and snow and shivered from cold and hunger. She would not leave even if she [20] Henrik: Tosse! (Henrik, Arv) 1:06 [ 1 ] Prelude 1:26 starved for fear of losing her eggs once more. You fool! [ 2 ] Leander: Ulignelige Pige [21] Leander: Nu Arv! er Posten lystig? (Leander, Leonore) 4:48 One day, though, she decided to seek the help of Zeus, king of the gods. Zeus sits (Leander, Arv, Henrik) 0:46 Incomparable maiden on the throne of heaven and possesses all knowledge. His hand can touch the Well, Arv! Enjoying your watch? [ 3 ] Henrik: Min sæde Balsambøsse [22] Leander: Se Henrik! shining sun, his robe is blue like summer violets and falls in folds to the side. (Henrik, Pernille) 1:41 (Leander, Henrik) 2:59 My sweetest balm distiller The eagle landed at his feet, her eyes bloodshot, her feathers bedraggled, and See, Henrik! [ 4 ] Leonard: Ydmygste Tjener cried out to him with a heavy heart: ‘Mighty Zeus, I am your bird, the symbol of [23] Leander: Naar Hjertet brænder 0:47 (Leonard, Magdelone) 2:39 your power: Protect me! I have been driven from my home in the mountains and When the heart is burning Your humble servant the valleys. All the eggs I have laid have been smashed by an enemy. Grant me a [24] Pernille: Hyp, hyp, hyp! (Pernille, [ 5 ] Maskarademesteren: place where I can lay them in safety.’ Leander, Henrik, Arv) 0:25 Hanedansen! 3:57 Black-bearded Zeus smiled and raised his hand to the eagle: ‘Build your nest here Gee, gee, gee, my horse! Dance of the Cockerels! in my lap!’ [25] Leonore: Monsieur! [ 6 ] Leonore: O kom min Ven! (Leonore, Leander, Pernille) 3:26 (Leonore, Leander, Henrik, Monsieur! Good Sir! Studenter) 1:08 [13] Content once more, the eagle wheeled away, her wings soaring and dipping in [26] Jeronimus: Luk op! Luk op! Oh, come my friend! search of fresh prey, her heart blazing with bloodlust. Deer and hares scattered in (Jeronimus, Arv) 1:57 [ 7 ] Magister: Naar Mars og Venus har the fields below. Birds hid silently in the leaves of the trees, and lambs sought Open up! Open up! endt deres Spil 1:09 refuge with the sheepdogs. [27] Magdelone: Porten er aaben When Mars and Venus have (Magdelone, Leonard) 1:22 ended their play The gates are open 10 3 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 4

[ 8 ] Maskarademesteren: Tramtrara! 1:08 En Vægter Night Watchman Born in Copenhagen in 1892 and (like Nielsen) largely self-taught in music, Tramtrara! Georg Leicht, Bass Knud Jeppesen was an organist, musicologist and composer whose musical [ 9 ] Kor: Ej Graad skal flyde 2:13 passions combined in important studies of Palestrina’s Masses and his own motets We’ll not be weeping Maskarademesteren Master of the Masquerade and liturgical settings. But his output ranged beyond music for the church to [10] Alle: Kehraus! 2:22 Georg Leicht, Bass encompass an opera ( Rosaura , 1946, after Goldoni), song and a concerto for Chain dance! En Magister A tutor natural horn. In 1949 he composed a cantata, based on one of Aesop’s fables, Jeronimus, Borger i København Niels Juul Bondo, Baritone to mark the silver jubilee of the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. A citizen of Copenhagen Aesop’s text was adapted into five movements by the choir’s assistant director, Holger Byrding, Bass The present unique performance of Carl Niels Møller, and Jeppesen set it with much unison choral writing and an orchestral Nielsen’s Maskarade was originally broadcast accompaniment full of naturalistic illustration. Even more than the chorus, it is the Magdelone, hans hustru his wife live on January 28, 1954 before an invitation orchestra that paints the eagle’s talons dripping with blood; the cello theme Ingeborg Steffensen, Mezzo audience. To accomodate radio listeners, depicting the flight of the beetle; the eagle’s despair at the start of the fourth particularly the many rightfully movement and the majesty of Zeus’s reply in seven-part a cappella writing. Leander, hans søn their son presumed to be less familiar with the story A loose English translation of Møller’s text follows. Thyge Thygesen, Tenor and its comic ramifications, a narrator was employed to fill in on the plot at vital points. Henrik, Leanders Tjener Leander’s valet The narration practice does, of course, The Eagle and the Beetle Einar Nørby, Bass-Baritone not harmonize too well with repeated [11] The terrified hare ran across the field. Closer, closer, closer swung the hissing CD-listening, and we have therefore wings of the black eagle. The hare could find no shelter under tree or bush. Arv, Gårdskar Jeronimus’ servant eliminated the intrusions, only a few Was there no help, no escape? Only a beetle on the ground. In helpless distress, Marius Jacobsen, Tenor voice-over spots eluding our efforts. the hare begged the beetle for protection. The beetle said: ‘Take courage, and calm yourself!’ The eagle crashed down with a roar of feathers, and the beetle Leonard, fra Slagelse A citizen of Slagelse The FS number refer to the bibliography addressed her: ‘Don’t you touch my hare! He is under my care!’ Poul Wiedemann, Tenor-Baritone Carl Nielsen: Kompositioner. En bibliografi ved Dan Fog i samarbejde med Torben Schousboe The eagle ignored the tiny beetle and pounced on the trembling hare. Leonore, hans datter his daughter (Copenhagen 1965) She rose and flew off like a storm, blood dripping from her talons. Ruth Guldbæk, Soprano Live Direct Studio Performance The eagle’s nest sheltered in a crevice, high in the mountains. There she looked Pernille, Leonoras Kammerpige January 28, 1954 after her eggs, safe from any clumsy hoof. Early each morning she left to fly over Leonora’s maid Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Studio One the valleys below, looking for food, her eggs snug in their nest. But beetles can fly, Ellen Margrethe Edlers, Soprano too. The beetle landed in the nest and scrabbled around inside. Inch by inch, 4 9 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 5

Act 2. The masquerade takes place in a playhouse opposite Jeronimus’s house. Knud Jeppesen (1892-1974) A nightwatchman passes while Arv is fearfully standing guard. Suddenly he sees a ghost – Henrik in disguise – and confesses to various petty thefts, culminating Ørnen og skarnbassen (1949) 28:03 in ‘the kitchen-maid’s virginity’. Henrik reveals himself, and blackmails Arv, who The Eagle and the Beetle must allow the masquerade-bound conspirators to leave the house. From Aesop’s Fables. Danish text: Leonora and her servant Pernille are on their way to the masquerade, as are Niels Møller. (Sung in Danish) Leonard and Magdelone, all of them disguised beyond recognition and unknown to each other. Leander and Leonora sing of their love for each other in an ecstatic [11] Haren ræd over marken sprang 10:19 duet, gently mocked by Henrik and Pernille. The terrified hare ran across the field Jeronimus discovers that he has been tricked and emerges furious from his house. The guilty are to be brought to account, and together with Arv he intends to burst [12] Ørnen er bleven en jaget fugl, 8:35 into the playhouse and find them. But the watchman stops them: only those in Now the eagle was not the hunter a mask are allowed in. The pair have to hire costumes from a little stall by the entrance: they enter the masquerade disguised as Bacchus and Cupid. [13] Nu bruser ørnen i højen sky 7:09 Content once more, the eagle wheeled Act 3. The dance is at its height, everyone is masked, and only Jeronimus and Arv away know who each other is. Leander is courting Leonora, Henrik Pernille, and Leonard Poster for the first production Live Concert, September 5, 1954, has his eye on Magdelone. On the warpath, Jeronimus is recognized by Henrik, of Maskarade who connives with the Master of the Masquerade to get him drunk. The drama’s Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Studio One denouement is interrupted by a sequence of dances (the best-known of them being the Cockerel’s Dance, 2;5), a pantomime and a ballet about the secret dalliance of Mars and Venus, and Vulcan’s fury at discovering it. The Danish Radio Choir Now quite drunk, Jeronimus makes advances to Venus, incurring the displeasure of The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra the Master of the Masquerade. The revelry continues until Death enters – the Master Launy Grøndahl, conductor in disguise – and commands one and all to remove their masks. Leonora and Leander discover to their delight that they have fallen in love with their real-life intended ones; Jeronimus is finally placated. The party – and the opera – close with a festive dance.

8 5 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 6

Three factors help to explain the upturn in the fortunes of Danish music on record Maskarade in the early 1950s. New tape technology facilitated better and easier recording. The musicians of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, after years of union Act 1. Late one afternoon in 1723, we find Leander and Henrik in their alcoves, wrangling, gave up their claim to copyright in the tapes of their broadcasts. sleeping off the effects of the previous night’s revelry at the masquerade ball, Last but not least, their conductor, Launy Grøndahl, turned with a more determined having returned home at dawn. Leander awakes with thoughts of the girl he met focus to making studio records of the music from his homeland. For years he had the previous night, and whom he is determined to marry. But Henrik reminds led the DRSO on the tours that made the orchestra’s name overseas, such as the Leander: his hand has already been promised by his father Jeronimus to Leonora, 1951 concerts in the UK that catalysed British interest in Carl Nielsen’s music with the daughter of Leonard. a legendary account of the Fourth Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Henrik illustrates the consequences for Leander of not doing what he is told with Now in his late 60s, feeling that his days of touring were over, Grøndahl ceded his the wittily improvised ‘Ember Court scene’ (CD 1; track 5). Leander’s mother, place in charge of the DRSO to Erik Tuxen and Thomas Jensen when the orchestra Magdelone, enters (1;7): she wants to find out all about last night’s goings-on. embarked on a seven-week tour of the US in 1952. Back at home, he opened the Leander casts aspersions on her dancing skills, but she puts him right with a little last chapter of his career, devoted to preserving the Danish musical heritage which demonstration of her own in which she dances a folie d’Espagne . he had promoted for so long. Two representative examples are presented here, Leander sees that his mother may serve as a useful co-conspirator and invites one familiar, the other much less so. her to join them at that night’s masquerade. Jeronimus bursts in and smells a rat. The major work is Nielsen’s comic opera Maskarade . He composed it in 1905-06 He forbids everyone from leaving the house. Leander falls in supplication to his as a satirical sequel to his epic debut on the lyric stage with Saul and David (1901). father, requesting permission to be released from his engagement to Leonora. By contrast to his first opera’s Biblical themes of tragedy and heroism, Nielsen had This only further enrages Jeronimus, who delivers a tirade about the virtuous old in mind a work for the lyric stage in the spirit of the biting social comedies written days and the impious new ones. (1;10). by Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), the jurist and father of modern Danish and The arrival of Leonard is announced; the two old men compare notes, and then Norwegian literature who worked at a time when both countries were governed Leonard himself discloses that Leonora, too, has fallen in love at the masquerade under the same monarchy (hence the fact that, while Holberg’s comedies held the and wishes to break off the engagement. Jeronimus determines to put an end to stages of Copenhagen theatres for decades, he was held in equally high esteem by this nonsense and puts the servant Arv on guard to make sure no-one leaves the Grieg and his contemporaries in Norway’s romantic nationalism movement). house. He sends for Leander and orders him to apologise to Leonard and honour The libretto for Maskarade , following Holberg’s 1724 play of the same name, was the engagement. But Leander refuses: he wants to return to the masquerade. The devised at Nielsen’s invitation by a renowned Holberg scholar, Vilhelm Andersen. act closes with an argument, played out as a quintet.

6 7 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 6

6 7 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 5

8 5 DACOCD 884 booklet_NEWDACOCD 769 1+8 06/10/20 17.49 Side 4

DACOCD 884 DACOCD 884 The Launy Grøndahl Legacy, Volume 4 2 CD . 9 d 9 e s 1 d e : 0 d e e 3 : e l s

0 a z : a d 7 1 5 0 a i b r

: y t a

l e t 3 a a r l s l ) : a 4 d ’ 8 F k s e a d e h 8

5 e a l s

r l m e 2 u n s r s 9

e i ’ a

t n a e 1 e e r i ) q h o

) r f n p s , e n n u e s M s

4 d t a

8 o e r 9 h O O r a e

y 2 s n h e D l 7

s h w 4 o o o

O M i e i i c u s

9 . r

r d d 9 e A h u i g e y e l 1 a y s

n u u l o 1 O o t n t t h

t - u g s n i ( e i g e n t S S m h

y n a e v

s h o d 2 n a

, , f a r o t g , e n r e r e n e i

u r

n n h J c o 9 r 4

t o o B p

p o o S F e e a

r p i i 5 p e m r c

( e o h 8 i

o t t

p .

c e 9 s e e 1 . t a a n p n S n 1 a 4 o e e d t

n m r

r r r

( l s

, o d a , J t , a t s o n o o s h i y e m s t

r l e 5 a s l 4 i r a

e n p p e

l a a r a y r m C S u r d d n r r

r l 5 r e

a e e h b ø o S e a M w o o e u t n r r h m l

o p 9

B o o f

a m n C C b

B a n h M a 1

i i p m g o r d

, s e

i r s

i s & l , e ’ g h e K o m g g

d d E s e d u s e s

h d

l l l g a i o a P e h u n n e S

a c n a a i i

c t r t d a d

n e a e g t t d a k H ,

e e a i B o o p n p i R R e

o i n s s R h e a k n i d . h d ø s

t o N a a

d f p a n t m r

t E V

o i p n S r

n r h c c

e h h e

: u s t

æ r o

h h i , t r t a o o B s d d n g e r n , h e e s s t n i b i

e c c S G t t i i h x t a a r g l e i

e t o h s

o L y e d n J r s t e t o o

, e l t c n n l s

e a s

T r r

l t c , a c a a w e e y c

n u g a a L u a u B B e e e n f r n e

r W D

o i g r l d J a o M h

m G

i n a p o l h D D o

o d g h h

t i e

n s E

N C

N e t C D r i T u s s s

u g h l h n i i d e

n e l i n e e ] ] u h o t n l r ] e e e e o n n r e v t g t n n r l a e 1 2 3 i i o e v v a h h u

l e b a a h e a m i i e a 1 1 1 f

L K c Ø T T R E G N a r L [ D T L L P N A L [ D [ D C o o

f c l

h h s n o ’ t t s

h ’ o o p a e t n l a o b p a e

a s t b d s m

l w e - l y n y e e A a i t s

i n

ø n l N e k l d

r o a

i f i l r e t h l o G h l o

a )

w a a r g h i

m v , d

s i n p n i ) s i r n h s n e y n ) d n ø s 6 n r i g r a o 1 i u e u j

0 a

o n

G D n 3 a e

1 - c 6 a h h e 7 o l t

y h 9 e n L i n t D 4 i e 3 t i 4 r p

n 1 n 3

: e

r : s w :

y 0 r e l o u g

l e p a m e e l - z 2 s e i t 4 e a c n 7 9 o

r B i z n a s e d L g h 1 u - 2 l

s 2 C e

e c o 4 5 r ( t r . a n i

S t l p d T u d

f t

r i ( o o n M u p o 6 r

S n 1 3

n e

o o 2 n a

9 y m l , n , m n

t a

a s 8 f

A v e y e

a . . g o n e

. c n

r 3 B s 1 s e r o t t r i t t T v c T f i t i

t e

a T ( - e u a

r e

e n m , c , s z ) s , n c c d l S c w s s i B s a b t h w ’ o

A n n t l n e r e

n n t ’ , r i a F

s A A

s e

e A z a e n e o s s h

o i c e g

f e i o

l e e v s d

r a t B s f i l i c u H ] ] i i d ] e n e

h t b

e i - s , e A e a

r m V c e n t

l m , l r t t a

6 0 9 m o g y d , g h i i h c a - e a r e e S y c n 1 1 s A y t e b a ( T

2 v n

y e u

i d n d r [ [

a b r f , u , h r [ g

t d L o

d i J e r ø B o n n

r o d r i T a l

i s , o u N a

m - -

e r u

r - r N l t o i e f s e

k L i k l

W e t o

a 2 1 d i a l o e

f J

b n r u d ] ] f r r u

] l

c s r e i g n r n , g f

a o r r g l e n e

e u y o a r a v 7 1 1 e D D a g t n a a b o s e p h r o i h f i e e e

1 i h n T C C C M E M P H I T [ a L A L [ [ J M L H O r : n k e e e 4 c d y . ] s 0 m l n u e i 8 b d 3 h n 5

t h g d : t r s 1

5 i i e 8 [ d u 8 a o o r

D s g 0 7 g r – e B c e y 4 r ] e n 2 0 l r

D p i a 1 r B r ø d e 0 7

+ 1 y

C n C r e J e e [ 2 r 0 s f a

l v p t

r : C l e L l i u o a D n w 2 J C 2 c a r F A C C t n 7 w e T

a o D x

w T H E

O C A D 4 8 8 D C y n u a L e h T l h a d n ø r G o V , y c a g e L 4 e m u l C 2 D DACOCD 884 Inlaycard_inlaycards 06/10/20 17.50 Side 1 Side 17.50 06/10/20 Inlaycard_inlaycards 884 DACOCD