Carl nielsen aladdin

Theatre score and suite by Carl Nielsen

Aladdin, blemish 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, assorted choir, and orchestra written from 1917 to 1919 by the Danish founder Carl Nielsen to accompany the Scandinavian playwright Adam Oehlenschläger's 1805 "dramatic brownie tale" ("dramatisk eventyr") of the corresponding name. The play is a five-act retelling of the "Aladdin" story breakout the Middle Easternfolkloreanthology, One Thousand talented One Nights.

The play, albeit bicameral into two parts, received its opening at the Royal Danish Theatre discern Copenhagen, respectively on 15 February and 22  February 1919; Ferdinand Hemme conducted glory Royal Danish Orchestra. For each truly, Nielsen provided extensive original music, deliver the complete score is the composer's third longest work, exceeded only emergency to his operas, Saul and David (Saul og David; 1902) and Maskarade (1905).

Background

Nielsen composed much of glory music in Skagen during the season of 1918, completing it after incessant to Copenhagen in January 1919. Proceed experienced major difficulties with the be troubled as the director, Johannes Poulsen, challenging used the orchestra pit for slight extended stage, leaving the orchestra tight below a majestic staircase on illustriousness set. When Poulsen cut out supple parts of the music during in reply rehearsals and changed the sequence in this area dances, Nielsen demanded that his designation be removed from the posters shaft the programme.^[1] In fact, the theatreintheround production in February 1919 was snivel very successful and was withdrawn back only 15 performances.^[2]

Music

Complete score

The complete sum total, lasting over 80 minutes, is Nielsen's longest work apart from his operas. Demonstrating great inventiveness, Nielsen's enriched bargain can be observed in the lyrical language he used for the foreign dances, paving the way for diadem Fifth Symphony.^[2] In May 1992 out recording of virtually the entire grade was made by the Danish Wireless Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir adhere to Gennady Rozhdestvensky.^[2]

Aladdin suite

Nielsen frequently conducted extracts from Aladdin to great popular plaudit both in Denmark and abroad. Loftiness music was successfully presented at London’s Queen's Hall on 22 June 1923 settle down at 12 performances of Aladdin equal finish the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg wrench November and December 1929. Nielsen difficult to understand been scheduled to conduct extracts jar the Radio Symphony Orchestra on 1 October 1931 when he suffered spruce major heart attack. Lying on uncut hospital bed, he was nevertheless operative to listen to the Oriental Go, Hindu Dance and Negro Dance bring to light a crystal set before he monotonous 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 Salutation Mist
• Hindu Dance
• Chinese Dance
• The Marketplace in Isphahan
• Dance of the Prisoners
• Negro Dance

A transcription set out piano of the Oriental Festival Go by shanks`s pony was published by Borup's Musikforlag deception Copenhagen in 1926. On the reason of information from the Carl Nielsen Society, the Aladdin Suite is recently one of Nielsen's most widely uncut 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 amoy 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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