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Volume 3 of Classico’s Carl Nielsen Edition continues its failure to produce recommendable performances of the major works. The Inextinguishable is an especially challenging work
This release completes EMI’s re-reissue of Herbert Blomstedt’s first Nielsen cycle in “twofer” format. The Fifth Symphony in the later San Francisco performance represented the
Herbert Blomstedt’s first Nielsen Symphony cycle has made the rounds of reissues and now appears in its cheapest incarnation yet. All of these performances were
The remarkable disc, emanating from the 1999 Danish Wave music festival in New York City (which also took in the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition),
Some of the music on this disc has been kicking around various pirate labels for a while, and none of it need trouble anyone but
This disc concludes the finest available cycle of Nielsen Symphonies with two performances fully worthy of the preceding four. Michael Schonwandt leads a freshly vibrant
Zubin Mehta’s is one of the great Nielsen Fourths, a performance in which he combines a firm grip on the work’s structure with a powerful
Listening to Douglas Bostock conduct the opening of Nielsen’s Third Symphony is like watching a clumsy runner struggling to regain his footing. His hasty accelerando
When asked why his Mozart performances lacked the Romantic warmth of Bruno Walter’s interpretations, George Szell retorted, “I cannot put chocolate sauce on asparagus!” It’s
I love the sound this quartet makes: they really dig into the strings with a gutsy, rich, but still smooth sound that, allied to dead
