Rued Langgaard(1893-1952): a Catalogue of the Orchestral Music

[Dundonnell]

RUED LANGGAARD: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

1906/48:"Du som troner" for baritone, chorus and orchestra: 8 minutes
1906-07:"Musae triumphantes" for soprano, tenor, baritone, men's chorus and orchestra
1907:       "En Sommaraften" for mezzo-soprano or tenor, chorus and orchestra:7 minutes   (lost)
                  Festival March "For Denmark" for wind band: 7 minutes
1907-09:"Drapa" ("on the Death of Edvard Grieg") for orchestra: 6 minutes    +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1907-08:"Heltedod" ("Death of a Hero") for orchestra: 10 minutes  + (Danacord cd)
1908-09/
   09-11:  Symphony No.1 "Klippepastoraler" ("Pastoral of the Rocks"): 67 minutes     + (Danacord, Chandos and Dacapo cds)
1908-10:"King Volmer" for men's chorus and orchestra: 6 minutes   (lost)
1909-10/13:Tone Poem "Sfinx": 8 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1909-11:"The North Sea" for reciter and orchestra: 12 minutes
1912-14/
     26-33:Symphony No.2 "Vaarbrud" ("Break of Spring")/"Vaarsange" ("Spring Songs") for soprano and orchestra: 28 minutes  +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1915/37-39:Tone Picture "Evening Bells" for baritone and orchestra: 3 minutes
1915-16/
    23/27:"Stjernen I Ost"("The Star in the East") for orchestra: 7 minutes     + (Dacapo cd)
1915/40s:"Hav og Sol"("Sea and Sun") for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra: 8 minutes   +  (Dacapo cd)
1915-16/45:"Drommen" ("The Dream") for soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra: 27 minutes   +  (Dacapo cd)
1915/37/41: "Angelus" for soprano, mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra: 18 minutes    +  (Dacapo cd)
1915/16:   "Epilogue" for chorus and orchestra: 3 minutes   + (Dacapo cd)

   (The last five works are revisions of material or extracts from the "Sinfonia Interna" much of which is lost)

1915-16/
     25-33:Symphony No.3 "Ungdomsbras"("La melodia") ("Rustle of Youth") for piano and orchestra with chorus: 28 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1916/41:Tone Picture "Late Summer" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra: 7 minutes
1916-18:"Music of the Spheres" for soprano, chorus  and orchestras: 35 minutes    + (Danacord, Chandos and Dacapo cds)
1916-20: Symphony No.4 "Lovfald" ("Leaf Fall"): 26 minutes   + (Danacord, Dacapo and Chandos cds)
1917:      "Palmblatter" for solo voices and orchestra
1917-19:"Saga blot" (originally "Sommersagnsdrama") for orchestra
1917-20: Symphonic Festspil for orchestra: 13 minutes
1918/47:"The Mass of the Dead" for reciter and orchestra
1919-20/
   28-30:   Symphony No.6 "Det Himmelrivende": 20 minutes   + (Danacord, Dacapo  and Chandos cds)
1917:      Four Tone Pictures for soprano and orchestra: 17 minutes  +  (Chandos cd)
1920:      Cantata for the Inauguration of the Y.M.C.A. Building for reciter, two sopranos, women's chorus and orchestra
1921-23/
  39-40/43:Concert Piece "The End of Time" for soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra (from the Opera "Antikrist"): 24 minutes   + (Chandos and Dacapo cds)
1921-23/46: "Vildstjernelys" for soprano, two tenors, baritone, chorus and orchestra
1923-26:Music for "The Dream of a Poet" for orchestra
1925/39:Concert Overture "The Dance of the Muses on Helicon": 10 minutes
1925-26:"Heliopolis" for wind band: 5 minutes
1925-26/
   30-32:  Symphony No.7 "Ved Tordenskjold I Holmens Kirke": 18 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1926:       Symphony No.5 (revision of "Saga blot")-first version   +  (Dacapo cd)
1926/48:"Polarstjernen" for wind band: 6 minutes
1926-28/
   29-34:Symphony No.8 "Minder ved Amalienborg" for orchestra with chorus: 16 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1931:    Symphony No.5 "Steppenautur" (revision of 1926 version): 18 minutes   +  (Danacord, Dacapo and Chandos cds)
1931-32:"Misterio (The Phantom Ship)" for orchestra: 7 minutes   *
1932:   "Exile" for soloist, chorus and orchestra: 8 minutes
1933:    Festival March "Memories of Langelinie" for wind band: 10 minutes
1935-37:Piano Concerto "Fra Arild"(adapted from music by Siegfried Langgaard): 35 minutes   +  (Danacord cd)
1942:      Symphony No.9 "Fra Dronning Dagmar's By": 22 minutes    +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1943:      "To the Light Wandering(The Caravan Song)" for soloists, chorus and orchestra: 3 minutes
1943-44:Violin Concerto: 10 minutes    +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1944-45:Symphony No.10 "Hin Torden-Bolig": 29 minutes   + (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
                Symphony No.11 "Ixion": 6 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1946:      Symphony No.12 "Helsingborg": 7 minutes   + (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1946-47:Symphony No.13 "Undertro": 28 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1947-48:"Interdikt" for organ and orchestra: 10 minutes   + (Danacord and Chandos  cds)
1947-48/51: Suite/Symphony No.14 "Morgenen" for orchestra with chorus: 28 minutes   +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1948:      "Hvidbjerg-Drapa" for chorus and orchestra: 3 minutes   + (Dacapo cd)
                Ballad "Jephtha" for reciter, bass-baritone, chorus and orchestra
                "Res absurda!" for chorus and orchestra: 5 minutes   + (Dacapo cd)
                "Carl Nielsen, Our Great Composer" for chorus and orchestra: ad infin.   (incomplete)  +  (Chandos cd)
                 Ribe Funeral March for wind band
                "The Danish National Radio Fanfares" for orchestra: 1 minute   +  (Dacapo cd)
                "Vendanger" for chorus and orchestra: 5 minutes
1949:      "From the Song of Solomon" for soprano, tenor, women's chorus and orchestra: 16 minutes    +  (Chandos cd)
                 Symphony No.15 "Sostormen": 13 minutes   + (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1949-50:"Sunday Sonata" for violin, piano, organ and orchestra: 15 minutes
1950:      "Marienlyst" for baritone, chorus and orchestra: 4 minutes
1950-51:Symphony No.16 "Syndflod af Sol": 23 minutes    +  (Danacord and Dacapo cds)
1950/52:"Fra Dybet"("From the Deep") for chorus and orchestra: 8 minutes    +  (Chandos and Dacapo cds)

[Dundonnell]

That was NOT EASY

[alberto]

I apologize for a tiny addition about the discography.
I suppose that some (maybe several) symphonies exist on more than one Danacord Cd.
For instance I have n.4 and n.6 both in then I.Stupel complete series (early '90s) both in recordings by J.Frandsen (late '70-early '80).

[eschiss1]

Was Langgaard.dk or a similar site of any help? I remember reading that the compiler of the Langgaard worklist (Vintholt-Nielsen?) was commended for being willing to undertake such a (so-to-speak) heroic task (this is not in the least sneering on my part, i (often quite!) like what I know of his music, but I can still admit that the sheer number of versions, etc. etc. ... well... ... )

I -think- Fra Dybet is also on Chandos with the first symphony but I'm not positive...

[Dundonnell]

Quite right about that Chandos cd, Eric I have the cd but missed it from my final list

www.langgaard.dk

[Christo]

That was NOT EASY

The music is. 

[giles.enders]

Rued Langgaard's piano concerto was based on the best parts of his Father, Siegfried's second piano concerto.  This is complete in a two piano version.  Siegfried did not have the time to orchestrate it.  The two piano score is 248 pages and if orchestrated would be of enormous length.