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Here are five piano trios, spanning 111 years, written by four high-profile Danish composers. Imagine Hindemith’s pan-tonal harmonic world reinterpreted in starker, bolder terms, and
The performances are still wonderful (for my initial review type Q8051 in the search box), but sonically this SACD multichannel version is clearly the winner,
I like this coupling: both works deal with the struggle between order and chaos, in the largest sense, and contrast music of simple lyricism with
Nielsen’s Fifth symphony was an unfortunate choice for the Hallé Orchestra’s fledgling record label, as Mark Elder’s reading is a definite non-starter. Elder seems out
It would be easy to just say that if you like Brahms and Schumann–and perhaps Wolf without the diminished chords–you’ll like these very attractive and
Osmo Vänskä’s Nielsen cycle has been a mixed bag, compounded equally of inspiration and exaggeration, laxity and fussiness, all projected by a provincial ensemble that
Osmo Vänskä’s performances of Nielsen’s Third and Fourth Symphonies are as fine as those on his previous disc (of Nos. 1 and 6) were deficient.
Douglas Bostock’s Nielsen Symphonies 1 & 6, being free of the stultifying blandness of his previously issued Nos. 3 & 4, are the best so
Richard Stoltzman’s continuing exploration of the clarinet repertoire has yielded some uniquely enjoyable concerto recordings for RCA, of which the current issue is just the
Osmo Vänskä is a fine conductor who always brings fresh ideas to the music he performs. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. Here they
