Kuhlau: Trio in G Major, Op. 119 - First movement (Allegro moderato)
Members of the Danish Quartet:
Gilbert Jespersen, flute
Erling Bloch, violin
Lund Christiansen, piano

Recorded November 21, 1938, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Gramophone Company 78-rpm matrices 2CS 1069-1 and 2CS 1070-1. Issued in HMV's Scandinavian Red Label series as DB 5226.

Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) was German-born but became a resident of Denmark from 1810 (and citizen from 1813), whence he had fled to avoid conscription in the Napoleonic Army. Kuhlau was famous in his time for founding a school of Danish opera, but he is remembered today chiefly for his piano sonatinas and his works involving the flute. The last of these, the Trio, Op. 119, was published in 1832 as a work for two flutes and piano, but the second flute part was also arranged for violin or cello, and it is the violin version that is heard on this recording, which is complete as issued. The two unrecorded movements are an Adagio patetico and a Rondo (Allegro).

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