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Nielsen Music for Wind Instruments
Whether or not you know Nielsen's Wind Quintet I do urge you to hear this new Schwann Lp recording is...
Reviewed in issue 2/1989
Nielsen Orchestral Works
Eduard Serov | Odense Symphony Orchestra
For most Nielsen collectors the main interest here will be Snefrid and Amor and the Poet rather than the symphony....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1994
Nielsen/Loeffler/Prokofiev Chamber Works
These days, Nielsen's Wind Quintet is so well represented in the catalogues that choice between competing versions may in the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
Karin Dornbusch - Nordic Clarinet Concertos
Gävle Symphony Orchestra | Karin Dornbusch | Petri Sakari
Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, his good-natured, warts-and-all portrait of Aage Oxenvad (clarinettist at the Wind Quintet’s premiere), has only slowly risen...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2006
Ibert/Jolivet/Nielsen Flute Concertos
No surprise to see eight recordings of Nielsen's genial Flute Concerto in The Classical Catalogue. But I would never have...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Nielsen Aladdin
So far Nielsen's music to Adam Oehlenschlager's Aladdin has been known only from the (relatively familiar) seven-movement suite, Op. 34,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993
Abrahamsen/Nielsen Orchestral Works
Christopher van Kampen | Elgar Howarth | London Sinfonietta
The Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen is now in his mid-40s and is represented in the CD catalogues by a symphony...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1998
NIELSEN Complete Symphonies
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paavo Järvi
‘I still don’t understand how there can be no word for “please” and no phrase for “nice to meet you”,’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016
NIELSEN Carl Nielsen sung by the Danish National Choirs
The hero of Dacapo’s fourth recent recording of Nielsen’s ensemble songs isn’t so much the composer himself as DR, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Dinu Lipatti
Alceo Galliera | Dinu Lipatti | Herbert von Karajan | Nadia Boulanger | Philharmonia Orchestra
Already warmly acclaimed throughout Europe despite war and his own ill-health, Lipatti, approaching 30, at last arrived in England in...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1998
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