Browse: Orchestral, Nielsen (composer)
This page lists all classical by Carl August Nielsen (1865–1931), in genre: Orchestral.
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Luisi deserves the lion’s share of the credit. Instead of walking a fine line between the contrasting elements in Nielsen’s music, Luisi fully embraces those contrasts. At the same time, he fuses... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - 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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Winner
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Offer, Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx Adam Walker (flute), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Gardner’s Third has a great deal going for it and you might say that his objectivity gives the piece free rein to sing its pantheistic hymn to the great outdoors. — More…
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[ Symphony No. 5] The richness of the first movement is brought out with exceptional vividness, and Luisi’s sure rhythmic pulse keeps the music animated without let-up. As in the Fourth Symphony,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year and Orchestral Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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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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…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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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the Month
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Sir Colin Davis’s set with the London Symphony Orchestra is very fine as you might expect… There are plenty of excellent sounds to be experienced here. — More…
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Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
It couldn’t have a better advocate than James Ehnes: strong in his lyricism when he needs to be, alert to all dynamics and a sense of fantasy which is outstanding in the two cadenzas. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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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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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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