Launy Grøndahl Trombone concerto

[Wheesht]

Launy Grøndahl's Trombone Concerto is being broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk's hr2 kultur channel in about 15 minutes (the concert with Grieg first, the Holberg Suite, and Sibelius Symphony 2 at the end, starts at 20.05 CET:

http://www.hr-online.de/website/radio/hr2/index.jsp?rubrik=5554&key=standard_document_56922072

Patrice Richer, trombonene
Orchestre Métropolitain
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[Alan Howe]

The work can be heard on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32rzdMJDQEs

[jerfilm]

Thanks for the tip, Alan.  Surfing around YouTube one might ask, did he compose ANYTHING else....

Jerry

[regriba]

Launy Grøndahl did actually compose quite a number of works (a symphony, string quartets, concertos for violin, bassoon and horn apart from the trombone one, a lot of incidental music for the radio), but very little of it is played today, and I'm not aware that anything apart from the trombone concerto has been recorded. In Denmark, Grøndahl is above all remembered as one of the conductors who turned the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra into an ensemble of international standard. He was considered one of the foremost Carl Nielsen conductors of his time, but he was also one of the few Danish musicians who kept supporting Rued Langgaard during the years when the latter was almost completely shunned by the rest of the Danish musical society.

[britishcomposer]

Kai Laursen has recorded the lovely Violin Concerto:
http://www.danacord.dk/frmsets/records/461-462-r.html

[jerfilm]

The Violin Concerto and many other Danish Violin Concertos can be heard here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyWNPEFWfGWcDDdiI7Fl8w/videos

This one took a little searching......

Jerry