Asger Hamerik: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 – Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard

Throughout his life, Asger Hamerik was the second most famous Danish composer after Niels W. Gade. He studied in Copenhagen with Gade and J. P.E. Hartmann and in Berlin with Hans von Bülow. Hartmann, in Berlin with Hans von Bülow, and finally in Paris with Hector Berlioz in 1864-69. In 1871-98 he worked in the United States as director of the Peabody Institute Conservatory in Baltimore. His catalog of works includes four operas, seven symphonies, and a number of Nordic suites.

Reviews

FonoForum 5/98: “Music from the Mendelssohn-Schumann Direction: pleasing, tasteful, measured and skillful.”