LANGE-MÜLLER/HEISE
Songs
Sten Byriel
Ulrich Stærk

Peter Arnold Heise, composer
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, composer

About
The songs with piano accompaniment - or the "romance" as it was also called - was the best loved and most widespread musical form in the Danish romantic period of the 19th century. The three greatest song composers are usually reckoned to be C.E.F. Weyse, Peter Heise and P.E. Lange-Müller. Weyse stands for Viennese classicism and the beginnings of the romantic movement. Heise and Lange-Müller represent the peak of that movement. Heise's output in particular is a high point of development of Danish song.

Credits
Recorded in the Danish Radio Concert Hall on 21-24 May 21-24 1996

Recording producer: Henrik Sleiborg
Sound engineer: Peter Bo Nielsen
Editing engineers: Peter Bo Nielsen and Henrik Sleiborg

Cover painting: Michael Ancher: "Pigen med solsikkerne" (1889), by courtesy of Statens Museum for Kunst

This recording is made in cooperation with Danmarks Radio