SACD, Nielsen (composer)
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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJohan Dalene (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Dalene has a strong command of long evolving lines – crucial in both composers – but he balances that with a fine feeling for ‘speaking’ phrasing and articulation...The expression can certainly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Winner
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Helios & Symphony No. 5
Alessandro Carbonare (soloist), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Carbonare's virtuosity searches out every corner of the exacting solo part, while Gardner's accompaniments are vivid and alert...Then comes the Fifth Symphony, in an interpretation brilliantly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Orchestral Choice
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[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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Nielsen: The Symphonies & Concertos
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano) & Joshua Hopkins (baritone), Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Oramo certainly knows how to generate and sustain a good current. Both of these symphonies are conceived as strong, purposeful wholes...Oramo also has a truly admirable way with phrasing Nielsen's... —
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Sakari Oramo's cycle of Nielsen symphonies roars to its conclusion with an account of the Second, The Four Temperaments, irresistibly driven by a fifth - Oramo himself. The choleric hero positively... —
