Tarp / Kildahl / Pronin Orchestral Works 1 Super-Audio CD

Not known to many today, Svend Erik Tarp (1908-1994) was one of the most prominent Danish composers of his time, boasting a large and versatile body of work which more or less has survived in obscurity. This series now sheds new light on a selection of Tarp's orchestral works, opening chronologically with some suites, overtures, and two small concertos. These are early and charming works that show a development from the elegant and easily accessible towards a more clarified neoclassicist style, which later became one of Tarp's hallmarks. This is the first of three albums in the set which will focus on Tarp's orchestral music. The succeeding volumes will contain Tarp's Symphonies 1-3 and his Piano Concerto. The series is chronologically built, illustrating Tarp's development as a composer, starting with his elegant music, inspired by French impressionism. The two soloists on this release are both concertmasters of Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

1. The Circus Orchestra Strikes Up 2. The Lions 3. The Dancer 4. Touch? 5. The Acrobat 6. Viennese Waltz 7. The Animal Tamer Wields the Whip 8. Scene and Danse Triste 9. Can-Can and Marche Triomphale 10. I. Allegro Vivace - Lena Kildahl/Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 11. II. Andantino - Lena Kildahl/Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 12. III: Rondo: Giocoso. Molto Vivace - Lena Kildahl/Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 13. Overture 14. I. Allegro Moderato - Cadenza - Stanislav Pronin/Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 15. II. Andantino - Stanislav Pronin/Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 16. III. Tempo Primo (Allegro Moderato) - Stanislav Pronin/Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 17. The Raven 18. Comic Ballad 19. Little Kirsten's Dance 20. Sir Ramund