A reimagined evening that places the artistic partnership of composer Carl Nielsen and sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen at the centre. Their marriage was turbulent, but their respect for each other's work stayed intact, and this concert explores that shared creative bond.
Pianist Kristine Thorup holds the evening together, playing Carl Nielsen's own piano pieces alongside composer Mogens Christensen's new versions of twelve of them, which take a sculpture by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen as their starting point. Poet Jesper Lützhøft has written texts that imagine the couple in conversation about their art, while photographer Suste Bonnén and video artist Jacob Nielsen bring in details from Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen's works. The concert also includes a few little-known piano pieces by Carl Nielsen, among them a wedding waltz he is said to have written at the age of 13.
