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Symphonies 1-2

Asger Hamerik

Symphonies 1-2

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
During his lifetime Asger Hamerik was the best known Danish composer after Niels W. Gade outside Denmark. He studied in Copenhagen with Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann, in Berlin with Hans von Bülow and finally in 1864-69 in Paris with Hector Berlioz. In the years 1871-98 he worked in the USA as director of the consercatory of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. His oeuvre includes four operas, seven symphonies and a series of Nordic Suites.
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Total runtime: 
72 min.
Release date: 
November 1997
Cat. No.: 
8.224076
FormatID: 
CD
CoverFormat: 
Jewel Case
Barcode: 
730099977623
Track count: 
8

Credits

Recorded at Helsingborg Concert Hall, Sweden, on 11-14 June and 1-3 September 1997

Recording producer: Michael Petersen
Sound engineer: Michael Petersen
Publisher: Edition Samfundet

Cover painting: The Homecoming from the Hunt" by Joachim Skovgaard (1886-88)

dacapo acknowledges, with gratitude, the financial support of Familien Hede Nielsens Fond, Beckett Fonden and Dansk Frimurer Orden "