

Despite the short playing times, these six discs offer a […]

Record companies have to make records. Only this mundane fact accounts for Chandos’ pointless release of John Storgards and the relentlessly uninteresting BBC Philharmonic in

Nielsen fans really are spoiled for choice. In addition to the superb recent Gilbert/NYPO cycle, we now have this remarkable series from Oramo and Stockholm.

This is very, very good. We seem to be going through a particularly satisfying period as regards Nielsen symphonies on SACD. First we had Gilbert’s

It seems like ages ago, but it was actually 1974-ish

These are strong, exciting performances of symphonies that demand the sort of bold muscularity in their execution that these artists offer. In Alan Gilbert’s hands

Herbert Blomstedt’s San Francisco recordings of the complete Nielsen symphonies

This is an incredibly stupid collection of superb performances. Herbert

The excellent booklet notes by our very own Jed Distler

After his gruesome Elgar Second, I have to confess that
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