The Wireless Orchestra, conducted by John Ansell; WILLIAM BARRAND (Baritone);
MURRAY LAMBERT (Violin)
Gade was a Dane, whose early work fount favour in Mendelssohn's eyes. When Gade was twenty-six, Mendelssohn conducted his first Symphony at Leipzig, and wrote the young man a fine letter of congratulation.
Gade was fond of reading the poems and legends attributed to the heroic poet Ossian. and such works as this Overture embody his impressions of those great doings in the days of old about which he had read.
The Overture. his Op. I. was written for a competition organized in his native Copenhagen, of which Spohr was one of the judges. It was Gade's success in this composition that paved the way for his studying in Leipzig.