Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1-6

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Release Date: 28th Aug 2012
Catalogue No: 94419
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7 (FS16)

Work length33:07

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Recorded: 2005
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

I. Allegro orgoglioso

Track length9:08

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II. Andante

Track length8:07

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III. Allegro comodo

Track length7:42

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IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

Track length8:10

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (FS29) 'The Four temperaments'

Work length32:02

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Recorded: 2005
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

I. Allegro collerico

Track length8:47

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II. Allegro comodo e flemmatico

Track length4:18

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III. Andante malincolico

Track length12:16

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IV. Allegro sanguineo

Track length6:41

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 (FS60) 'Sinfonia espansiva'

Work length36:47

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Recorded: 2005
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

I. Allegro espansivo

Track length11:19

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II. Andante pastorale

Track length9:39

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III. Allegretto un poco

Track length6:33

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IV. Finale: Allegro

Track length9:16

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 (FS76) 'The Inextinguishable'

Work length34:00

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Recorded: 2005
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

I. Allegro

Track length11:08

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II. Poco allegretto

Track length4:31

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III. Poco adagio quasi andante

Track length9:34

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IV. Allegro

Track length8:47

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (FS97)

Work length34:39

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Recorded: 2005
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

I. Tempo giusto

Track length18:20

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II. Allegro

Track length16:19

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 6, (FS116) 'Sinfonia semplice'

Work length34:43

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Recorded: 2005
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

I. Tempo giusto

Track length13:39

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II. Humoreske: Allegretto

Track length4:07

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III. Proposta seria: Adagio

Track length6:05

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IV. Tema con variazioni

Track length10:52

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Half a bar of Carl Nielsen and you know it’s him - a characteristic of great composers down the ages, to be sure, but one peculiarly concentrated around nationalist composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nationalist, not necessarily through any political affiliation but because they sought to renew both the standard musical forms and genres, and their own country’s culture, with bold and fresh attempts to marry the two. Indeed, Nielsen was so successful at this (like Sibelius in Finland), that for decades afterwards he seemed to cast a shadow over those who came after.

The symphonies lie at the centre of Nielsen’s achievement. They develop as he did, from exuberant Romanticism (No.1), through rangy melodies and ‘visionary’ slow movements (Nos 2 and 3), to an unquenchable embrace of the heroic struggle that places Man at the centre of his world (Nos 4 and 5), finally to rest in a quizzical re-examination of all that we hold worthwhile in mind and music (No.6, the ‘Sinfonia semplice’: never was a symphony more ironically named). Each symphony sets off on its own exciting journey, and the demands Nielsen makes on his participants are extreme - he was a fine violinist himself, and he used his extensive knowledge to turn string players inside out with ferocious fugues and precipitous runs.

Many great orchestras have tackled this music, and some have ended up making it into little more than concertos for orchestra in all but name. Not, however, this apparently less glittering ensemble. David Hurwitz, famously hard to please, is unequivocal in his Classics Today review: 'Theodore Kuchar leads what is without question the most exciting complete Nielsen symphony cycle available, making this the set to get for Nielsen newcomers'.

Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1-6

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