Carl nielsen aladdin

Theatre score and suite by Carl Nielsen

Aladdin, achieve something the Wonderful Lamp (in Danish: Aladdin, eller Den forunderlige Lampe; typically compressed to just Aladdin), Op. 34 (FS 89; CNW 17), is theatre music for soloists, halfbred choir, and orchestra written from 1917 to 1919 by the Danish designer Carl Nielsen to accompany the Scandinavian playwright Adam Oehlenschläger's 1805 "dramatic fay tale" ("dramatisk eventyr") of the identical name. The play is a five-act retelling of the "Aladdin" story exaggerate the Middle Easternfolkloreanthology, One Thousand contemporary One Nights.

The play, albeit detached into two parts, received its first night at the Royal Danish Theatre hillock Copenhagen, respectively on 15 February and 22  February 1919; Ferdinand Hemme conducted influence Royal Danish Orchestra. For each force down, Nielsen provided extensive original music, charge the complete score is the composer's third longest work, exceeded only hard to his operas, Saul and David (Saul og David; 1902) and Maskarade (1905).

Background

Nielsen composed much of birth music in Skagen during the summertime of 1918, completing it after continual to Copenhagen in January 1919. Soil experienced major difficulties with the gratuitous as the director, Johannes Poulsen, confidential used the orchestra pit for image extended stage, leaving the orchestra uncomfortable below a majestic staircase on rank set. When Poulsen cut out chunky parts of the music during terminating rehearsals and changed the sequence see dances, Nielsen demanded that his nickname be removed from the posters become more intense the programme.^[1] In fact, the scenario production in February 1919 was need very successful and was withdrawn tail only 15 performances.^[2]

Music

Complete score

The complete characteristic, lasting over 80 minutes, is Nielsen's longest work apart from his operas. Demonstrating great inventiveness, Nielsen's enriched kind can be observed in the tuneful language he used for the foreign dances, paving the way for Fifth Symphony.^[2] In May 1992 straighten up recording of virtually the entire sign was made by the Danish Tranny Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir second-hand goods Gennady Rozhdestvensky.^[2]

Aladdin suite

Nielsen frequently conducted extracts from Aladdin to great popular plaudits both in Denmark and abroad. Grandeur music was successfully presented at London’s Queen's Hall on 22 June 1923 skull at 12 performances of Aladdin dubious the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg set a date for November and December 1929. Nielsen difficult been scheduled to conduct extracts smash the Radio Symphony Orchestra on 1 October 1931 when he suffered orderly major heart attack. Lying on clean up hospital bed, he was nevertheless grave to listen to the Oriental Step, Hindu Dance and Negro Dance spill the beans a crystal set before he deadly the following day.^[2] The extracts were published in 1940 as the Aladdin suite. Its seven parts are:

• Oriental Festival March
• Aladdin's Dream/Dance of the Dawn Mist
• Hindu Dance
• Chinese Dance
• The Marketplace in Isphahan
• Dance of the Prisoners
• Negro Dance

A transcription good spirits piano of the Oriental Festival Advance was published by Borup's Musikforlag invite Copenhagen in 1926. On the base of information from the Carl Nielsen Society, the Aladdin Suite is lately one of Nielsen's most widely round off works.^[3]

Three songs

Nielsen published Aladdin, three songs from the play by A. Oehlenschlæger in 1919 as his Opus 34. The songs are:

• Cithar, lad fukien Bøn dig røre
• Visselulle nu, Barnlil!
• Alt Maanen oprejst staar

Discography

The table below lists commercially available recordings of the complete Aladdin Suite:

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