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Schierbeck: Symphony, etc.

David Hurwitz

Not surprisingly, the principal influence on Danish composer Poul Schierbeck’s marvelous symphony (1921) is Carl Nielsen, who also conducted the work’s premiere. The first movement

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Madge’s Medtner

Jed Distler

Originally issued in 1991 on the Danacord label, BIS reissues Geoffrey Douglas Madge’s Medtner Concerto cycle as a two-for-the-price-of-one CD set. Essentially, the Medtner Concerto

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