Browse: Nielsen - Chaconne, Op. 32 (FS79)

The suite is not only Nielsen's greatest keyboard work but arguably the mightiest ever written in Scandinavia. Martin Roscoe is right inside this music and guides us through its marvels with... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The first disc includes admirable education pieces — a twin series covering sharp keys then flat — but it is the second that contains the deep, original substance...The Chaconne, Op 32, is profoundly... — Sunday Times, 12th April 2015 More…

To give Rangell a slightly left-handed compliment, he succeeds in draining away quite a lot of [the B flat Impromptu's] 'fat content'....Rangell projects [the Nielsen's] thicker and thinner textures... — International Record Review, December 2010 More…

Throughout, Bjørkøe impresses with her beautifully phrased and idiomatic interpretations and I warmed to her way with the music right from the start of the early Op 3 set. Where necessary she... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 More…

Neither of those two contemporaneous but wildly different composers wrote much piano music, but what little they did produce was of very high quality. Andsnes is master of their idioms, and... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The virtuoso performance given Sofia Gubaidulina’s early Chaconne (1962) achieves a terrifying intensity…Gulyak also makes a strong case for the rarely heard Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel’s... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…