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[Davis] matches Herbert Blomstedt when it comes to grandeur and sense of the long evolving line, and yet the music also seems to fluid and changeable, and alive on so many levels. Full marks... — More…
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Great Works for Flute and Orchestra
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Neeme Järvi
[the Nielsen] merits the supreme artistry that Shraon Bezaly brings to it, both in terms of deft, discerningly harnessed virtuosity and in her supple, sinuous shaping of the music. Neeme Jarvi... — More…
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It's a joy to find so much intelligent care and attention expended on Nielsen's First Symphony...You can feel the exuberance, the intellectual control, and also the sense of danger...But there's... — More…
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Nielsen: Orchestral Music
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
…this disc is a good reminder of just how experimental Nielsen could be: prepared to try out not just different stylistic devices but even different kinds of persona. Thomas Dausgaard conducts... — More…
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Offer, Nielsen: The Symphonies & Concertos
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Erin Morley (soprano) & Joshua Hopkins (baritone), Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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Nielsen: Maskarade
Johan Reuter, Stephen Milling, Niels-Jørgen Riis, Dénise Beck, Anne Margrethe Dahl, Ditte Højgaard Andersen, Guido Paevatalu
Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Michael Schønwandt
The mighty bass Stephen Milling catches the ageing paterfamilias Jeronimus's comically fallible humanity likeable…Denise Beck and Ditte Højgaard Andersen as love interests Leonora and her maid... — More…
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Nielsen & Aho - Clarinet Concertos
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Those who cherish earlier versions of Neilsen's masterpiece… will know how deep this music runs and how haunting it is. The young Swedish clarinettist give what I must say is the most searching... — More…
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Offer, Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Lucy Hall (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Davis approaches both works with driving energy...this recording is an exhilarating display of the life-force at full blast in both composer and conductor. — More…
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Offer, Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
This is the second instalment of [Davis's] Nielsen Symphony series with the LSO, recorded with admirable clarity and carrying no extra-musical sounds apart from an occasional gasp, groan or semi-melodic... — More…
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Nielsen: Songs for Choir
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Michael Bojesen
These simple tunes can unlock many a greater truth in Nielsen's concert works. In that sense they wholly deserve the artistry of Ars Nova Copenhagen...open-throated singing that befits the direct... — More…