CHAN 10354X Booklet cover 10/7/05 1:19 PM Page 1 CHANDOS CLASSICS Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR CHAN 10354 X GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY CHAN 10354 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:46 pm Page 2 Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874) Festival at Tivoli 1 Champagne Galop 2:19 2 Dronning Louise 5:36 Queen Louise The Royal Library, Copenhagen Library, The Royal Waltz 3 Københavns Jernbane Damp Galop 4:07 Copenhagen’s Steam Railway Galop Andante – Allegretto 4 Concert Polka for To Violiner 4:55 for Two Violins Kim Sjøgren • Anton Kontra violins 5 Mon Salut à St Pétersbourg 3:09 March 6 Petersborgerinden 2:30 The Lady of St Petersburg Polka 7 Drømmebilleder 9:47 Dream Pictures Fantasy Allegretto – Moderato – Tempo di valzer 8 Polonaise med Cornet Solo 4:15 with Cornet Solo Hans Christian Lumbye Christer Nilsson cornet 3 CHAN 10354 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:46 pm Page 4 Lumbye: Festival at Tivoli 9 Britta Polka 2:37 Hans Christian Lumbye was born in and he became attached to the Horse Copenhagen on 2 May 1810. His father was Guards. In 1832 he married, and in order to 10 Finale Galop af balletten ‘Napoli’ 4:35 a corporal in the army, but Hans Christian improve his finances he had to look round from the ballet Napoli was only six years old when the family was for extra work. He was taken on as an Allegro con spirito transferred to the regiment in the Jutish apprentice to the stadsmusikant Carl Füssel, market town of Randers. Here Hans and soon aroused attention as an 11 Columbine Polka Mazurka 4:29 Christian grew up and received his first music extraordinarily skilled musician whom the lessons from the local organist, who taught stadsmusikant could permit to lead the 12 Salut for August Bournonville 1:56 Salute to August Bournonville him to read music and to play the violin. players he despatched to balls or brass band Already when the boy was twelve his concerts. Lumbye began to compose new 13 Amélie Vals 10:45 father was transferred to The Funen dances and marches, which appealed to Amélie Waltz Regiment in Odense, where the local audiences, and soon a small group of Presto – Poco allegretto stadsmusikant now became Hans musician friends took shape around him, Christian’s teacher. The latter immediately who enjoyed playing his music. 14 Finale Galop af balletten ‘Livjægerne på Amager’ 3:31 recognised the boy’s considerable talent for In 1839 Copenhagen was visited by an from the ballet The Life Guards on Amager music, and as a child in a garrison town it Austrian orchestra, ‘The Steiermark Music was only natural that he would take up the Society’ under the leadership of Music 15 Petersborg Champagne Galop 2:52 trumpet; he learned so quickly that at the age Director Siegl from Vienna, which played St Petersburg Champagne Galop of only fourteen he achieved appointment as music by Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss TT 68:27 a trumpeter with his father’s regiment. the Elder among others. Lumbye and his Five years later, in 1829, Lumbye had friends became captivated by this new style Danish National Symphony Orchestra /DR become a highly accomplished exponent of of light music and decided to perform similar Gennady Rozhdestvensky both the trumpet and the violin, and had pieces, and as H.C. Lumbye was capable of composed a few bits and pieces which composing new dances and marches of this showed his musical gifts. He applied for a kind, they soon started playing in a modest transfer to Copenhagen, which was granted, kind of way at various of Copenhagen’s 4 5 CHAN 10354 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:46 pm Page 6 inns, variety theatres and some of the many From 1841 onwards, amusements in wonderful stretch of the abandoned extensive journey abroad, and when Tivoli had new establishments of entertainment that Copenhagen really grew apace. The editor of fortifications, with moats and ponds and closed its gates at the end of the 1844 season, were shooting up at this time. the periodical Figaro, Lieutenant Georg huge trees, abutting the western quarter of Lumbye in November set off to Paris. Here he The debut concert proper was now due to Carstensen, was a man with an insatiable Copenhagen. Carstensen immediately began heard works by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque take place. H.C. Lumbye placed an desire for activity. He arranged concerts, to equip the grounds with restaurants, and Philippe Musard, and himself gave a advertisement in Adresseavisen to announce exhibitions, people’s festivals and, in the shooting galleries, pavilions and places of concert featuring his own compositions. The that on 5 December there would be a month of July, a great ‘Vauxhall and amusement, but most importantly of all, a concert proved successful beyond all Concert à la Strauss in the elegant hall of the Concert’ in the gardens of Rosenborg concert hall. He brought Lumbye in as expectations, and no less a figure than Berlioz, Hôtel d’Angleterre. Palace. There were coloured lanterns, pools Music Director, and it was a well-organised who had been present, wrote a well-disposed But alas! On 2 December 1839 King with fountains, banners and tastefully Tivoli that could open its gates to the public review in the Journal des Débats: Frederick VI of Denmark died. National illuminated decorations. But first and on 15 August 1843. M. Lumbye’s waltzes are not only attractive mourning put a stop to all entertainments, foremost, Lumbye’s orchestra played not only Here at Tivoli Lumbye found his true and beautiful, but also well-written and and all the music faded. For two months Lumbye’s own musical pieces, but also the occupation. Every evening was to be like a expertly orchestrated, free of excessive noise, Copenhageners mourned the death of the latest music by Lanner and by Strauss, father party, and music was to have pride of place. with no striving for effect and no charlatanism. Father of the Country, but immediately after, and son. Lumbye’s own orchestra numbered twenty- Before his departure Lumbye made a thorough they started relishing life’s pleasures again. Georg Carstensen arranged several such two men, the brass band seventeen, at the study of one of the new dance forms, the Lumbye could give his concert, the success of summer festivals, and in winter he received theatre played eight musici, and the carousel quadrille, which at just that time was being which exceeded all expectations, and as a permission to give concerts with Lumbye’s ground had six ‘wind instruments’. cultivated with great enthusiasm in Paris. result he was able to arrange a total of six orchestra in the Riding Hall of Lumbye composed diligently; audiences The next stop was Vienna. It was with concerts in the course of that winter. Christianborg Palace. He also facilitated certainly loved the waltz, the galop and the some trepidation that he gave a concert at In the next few years Lumbye enjoyed balloon ascents and firework parties. march, but first among the favourites were one of the city’s largest theatres, the great success as an independent composer The time was now ripe for Copenhagen, the newer dances: the polka and the polka Leopoldstadt Theater. But it went well. The and orchestral conductor, and it is testimony too, to have an amusement park, just as mazurka; furthermore, the new waltz style, audience was well-disposed, and became to the respect he inspired that when August Vienna had its Prater and other European with the longer concert waltz which was captivated by the exotic-sounding melodies. Bournonville, the great ballet master of The large cities had parks with a Jardin-turc, somewhat slower, had begun to make The waltz La Résignation gave particular Royal Theatre, in 1842 was collecting music Lunapark, Bazaar or Nuit vénitienne. headway. Lumbye felt a necessity to travel pleasure, and earned him the applause of for Napoli, perhaps his most successful and In 1842 Carstensen was granted a abroad, put his abilities to the test and seek Johann Strauss the Elder, no less. After the high-spirited ballet, he chose to ask Lumbye privilege to establish an amusement park new experiences from which he could learn. concert Lumbye again took the opportunity to compose the furiously festive Finale under the name ‘Copenhagen’s Tivoli and The following year King Christian VIII to study the latest music in this, the very Galop. Vauxhall’. The site had been found: a secured him a public subvention for an capital of music. Thence the journey 6 7 CHAN 10354 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:46 pm Page 8 continued to Berlin. Word of the new portrayal of the departure, journey and including the polka The Lady of St Petersburg Britta Polka, dedicated to Britta Rydberg, Danish composer had preceded him, so on arrival at its destination of a steam and a St Petersburg Champagne Galop, and famous and much admired society lady in his arrival he was immediately engaged to locomotive. For his musicians Lumbye often at a concert at the country residence of the Copenhagen, was composed in the spring of conduct a series of concerts at ‘Kroll’s wrote pieces in which they could exhibit Tsar, Peterhof, Lumbye dedicated to the Tsar a 1864. One of the many compositions that Wintergarten’. The reception was their prowess with the instrument, such as new march. It was courteous custom to round are dedicated to the royal family is the overwhelming. Critics and audiences outbid the Polonaise with Cornet Solo. Among the off a guest appearance with a salute to the waltz Queen Louise of 1869, and at a one another in paying tribute to ‘the new compositions of 1849, the ravishing Amélie audience.