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Nielsen: Organ Works
Ask any Nielsen-lover about the organ works and you will probably encounter unqualified enthusiasm. They are all late pieces, with...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
Nielsen Symphony No 4 etc
Douglas Bostock | Jan Lund | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Inextinguishable s come and go, but even so this newcomer is the 16th currently available. Like Schonwandt, Bostock uses the...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Nielsen Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jukka-Pekka Saraste
An impressive account of the Fourth Symphony, which can, I think, hold its own among the very best now before...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1998
Nielsen Syms Nos. 1 and 6
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Michael Schønwandt
Michael Schonwandt directs a patient, sensitively moulded account of Nielsen’s marvellously invigorating First Symphony. One or two interpretative quirks may...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Nielsen Symphonies
(Royal) Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Gennady Rozhdestvensky
There has always been a strong Nielsen tradition in Sweden: there are at present three (or nearly three) Nielsen cycles,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994
Langgaard; Nielsen Organ Works
The suspicion is that the interest shown in the organ music of those composers who are more famous outside the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2010
Nielsen Songs
Jens Schou | Jørgen Klint | Rosalind Bevan
To the average Danish citizen and to many Danish schoolchildren Carl Nielsen is better known for his songs than for...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
Khachaturian/Nielsen Flute Concertos
This issue is certainly not going to win any awards for sound-quality. Rampal is placed absurdly forward in the Nielsen,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Nielsen Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Anu Komsi | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Christian M. Immler | Osmo Vänskä
Last summer Osmo Vänskä and the BBC Scottish took their performance of The Inextinguishable to the Proms, where they rose...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2003
Nielsen Orchestral and Chamber Works
This issue is bound to have special meaning for lovers of Nielsen's music, particularly for those who missed out on...
Reviewed in issue 3/1993
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