Hans Christian Lumbye
1. Work: En Promenade over dyrehavsbakken / A Promenade on the Deer Park Hill, Galopade (1858)
Orchestra: Tivolis Symfoniorkester
Conductor: David Ridell
In 1861 Lumbye composed a musical divertissement which depicts a promenade round the many attractions of the Tivoli gardens, and in the same way he wrote a similar work three years earlier, A Promenade on the Deer Park Hill, which, in the tight form of the galop, represents the many diverse booths and attractions which drew the public to the Deer Park Hill at Klampenborg. The galop, which is in thirteen short continuous sections, begins with a pastoral-sounding introduction, after which the listener is taken past the many different booths of the Deer Park Hill. The sections are presented in Lumbye's original manuscript with the following programmatic titles:
(1) Introduction, (2) A Soldier with a Barrel-Organ, (3) Ferdinand from the Tirol, (4) 1st Swing, (5) 2nd Swing, (6) There is Nothing in the Way, (7) Another Barrel-Organ, (8) Ferdinand from the Tirol, (9) Box of Magic Tricks, (10) Swing with Barrel-Organ and Drum, (11) Clown with Drum and Trumpet, (11) Rollercoaster, (12) An Old Man Plays the Violin, (13) The Drive Home.
For his musical thumbnail sketches of these many attractions, Lumbye makes use of a wealth of quotations from the most popular tunes, marches and children's songs of the day. Towards the end, they are all combined in a great musical and tonal chaos, in order to depict the noisy chaos that in reality filled the Deer Park Hill. The work, which in the original manuscript bears the subtitle Galopade barocque, was completed, according to Lumbye's own dating, at 2.30 a.m. on 19th July 1858, and he made a fair copy a few days later, on 22nd July. It was first performed at a concert in the Tivoli gardens on 1st August of that year. Some years earlier, Lumbye had written many similar compositions in honour of the Deer Park Hill, in the form of waltzes, galops and musical divertissements. In addition, he wrote a so-called Musical Quodlibet in 1863, entitled A Little Deer Park Joke. Among all these works, however, his Promenade on the Deer Park Hill was one of the most popular, and it remained part of the Lumbye set repertoire in Tivoli right up to the beginning of the twentieth century.
2. Work: Juliette Galop
3. Work: Slaget ved Isted, fantasy for orchestra (1851)
Orchestra: Tivolis Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Giordano Bellincampi
Galop: A lively dance in duple time, popular in the 19th century.
4. Work: Britta Polka (Recorded in 1910)
Orchestra: Kgt. Garder Husar Regiments Musikkorps, København.
Conductor: Oscar Borg
5. Work: Glaedeligt Nytår!, galop from suiten Jul og Nytår, Bal-Bouquet.
Orchestra: Tivolis Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Giordano Bellincampi
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| Hans Christian Lumbye (danish composer, 1810-1874) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Hans Christian Lumbye (1810-1874), Danish composer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
