In the first hour of this week's Sunday on Blue Lake, we'll enjoy music by one of the foundational figures or Danish music, Niels Wilhelm Gade and in the final hour, that of a student of Gade who would go on to become the country's most prominent composer on the international stage, Carl Nielsen—his incidental music to Aladin, the 1805 masterpiece the leading figure of the golden age of Danish literature, Adam Oehlenschläger. The musical centerpiece of the program will be Ferrucio Busoni's epic and unclassifiable Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, whose final movement brings in male chorus in a setting of the finale of that same play of Adam Oehlenschläger,. Rounding out the program will be some contemporary sounds of Denmark, as the Danish recorder virtuoso Mikela Petri is featured as soloist in a recorder written for her by one of the leading figures in Danish music of the late 20th Century, Thomas Koppel, his Moonchild's Dream.
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler, every Sunday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
