Sehested, Dalberg & Griebel Wandall: Chamber Works

Featuring

Jonathan Slaatto
Martin Qvist Hansen
Charlotte Norholt
Nicolas Dautricourt
Tommaso Lonquich
Peter Kirstein

Ensemble MidtVest
Hilda Sehested
Nancy Dalberg
Tekla Griebel Wandall

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Composer Biography

Hilda Sehested, a composer featured on this album, self-initiated and self-funded her entry into public musical life, organizing and paying for concerts of her own compositions.

Recording & Production

This album marks the first time any music by Tekla Griebel Wandall, one of the featured composers, has ever been recorded.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Hilda Sehested, Nancy Dalberg, and Tekla Griebel Wandall were among the first Danish women composers to publicly practice their art, facing considerable criticism and prejudice.

Critical Reception

Early reviews of Nancy Dalberg's music often focused more on her gender than on the music itself, with one newspaper stating, 'Music history has yet to show a woman composer of significance.'

Historical Context

In 1980, the Danish Music Museum held an exhibition titled 'Women Compose,' which cataloged 339 Danish women composers, though historical figures' music remained unrecorded.

Composer Biography

Nancy Dalberg, another composer on this album, developed a close professional relationship with Carl Nielsen, even assisting him with orchestrations for his works Aladdin and Fynsk Forår.

Composition History

The final piece on the album, Tekla Griebel Wandall's Notturno, is a fragment from a larger, five-movement cello and piano sonata, with only the cello part surviving for the rest of the work.