There are many concerts at the moment in Copenhagen. One of my favorites is in Helligåndskitken (Holy Spirit) in walking street. I mentioned last week's concert on my Facebook.
Yesterday Jakob Lorenzen was the soloist. He started with an Allegro by Alexandre Guilmant - strange "glimmering" music. Last week I was introduced to Guilmant, now I became more interested. Then a richly varieted selection with pieces by César Franck, Heinrich Scheidemann (a name to remember: I liked this In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr), Beethoven, Reger, Bach and Rued Langgaard. Only 3 preludes by Langgaard, but this overlooked and underrated master is one of my favourites. At last Lorenzen played his own Free Improvisation on a Given Theme.It showed late, at last to me - that the theme was the Danish Folk Song En yndig og frydefuld sommertid -- a good choice with 20 degrees oiutside.
Second concert, same place, but outdoors, the carillon. Of course my mobile was closed during the performance, so I didn't hear that both my brother and my mother tried to call me. I think it was OK to answer the phone, but it prevented me from listening carefully to the music. Some of these pieces were written directly for carillon, thus no arrangements. Among the more curious arrangements I would like to mention Charles Chaplin as composer and at last an arrangement of The Liberty Bell March by John Philip Sousa. Monty Python also used this theme -- so its one of the Sousa items I know by name.
While listening to the carillon there was also plenty of time to watch the tourists walking up and down Walking Streets. Usually I avoid Walking Street nowadays when I need to go somewhere, as the visitors walk in their slow motion mode. Still I hear that they complain about too few sites and those which are there are not sensational enough. Of course there are other things which are important in their own right, but no attention getters, like Yorck's Passage -- a passage that makes you all of a sudden feel that you could be in Paris.
Yesterday Jakob Lorenzen was the soloist. He started with an Allegro by Alexandre Guilmant - strange "glimmering" music. Last week I was introduced to Guilmant, now I became more interested. Then a richly varieted selection with pieces by César Franck, Heinrich Scheidemann (a name to remember: I liked this In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr), Beethoven, Reger, Bach and Rued Langgaard. Only 3 preludes by Langgaard, but this overlooked and underrated master is one of my favourites. At last Lorenzen played his own Free Improvisation on a Given Theme.It showed late, at last to me - that the theme was the Danish Folk Song En yndig og frydefuld sommertid -- a good choice with 20 degrees oiutside.
Second concert, same place, but outdoors, the carillon. Of course my mobile was closed during the performance, so I didn't hear that both my brother and my mother tried to call me. I think it was OK to answer the phone, but it prevented me from listening carefully to the music. Some of these pieces were written directly for carillon, thus no arrangements. Among the more curious arrangements I would like to mention Charles Chaplin as composer and at last an arrangement of The Liberty Bell March by John Philip Sousa. Monty Python also used this theme -- so its one of the Sousa items I know by name.
While listening to the carillon there was also plenty of time to watch the tourists walking up and down Walking Streets. Usually I avoid Walking Street nowadays when I need to go somewhere, as the visitors walk in their slow motion mode. Still I hear that they complain about too few sites and those which are there are not sensational enough. Of course there are other things which are important in their own right, but no attention getters, like Yorck's Passage -- a passage that makes you all of a sudden feel that you could be in Paris.
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| This unusual sight gets little to no attention. York's Psassage by architect Vilhelm Dahlerup. |
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