The principal post-Romantic Danish composer, Carl Nielsen, was born in 1865, the son of a painter and village musician. Childhood experience as an amateur performer led to subsidised study at the Copenhagen Conservatory as a student of violin, piano and theory, and a long career during which he developed his own personal style of composition, in particular in a series of important symphonies.
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NIELSEN: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 - Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2
This is an important release, containing magnificent performances of some major works. The engineering also is just about perfect - beautifully balanced in the sonatas; warmly natural and not too close in the solo violin works. A great disc!
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8.224218
NIELSEN, C.: Songs
All of these 23 pieces are sung to near-perfection--with lovely tone, excellent expressive control, and native sensitivity to interpretation and pronunciation--by soprano Inger Dam-Jensen (who reminds me of a young Dawn Upshaw) and baritone Morten Ernst Lassen, ably accompanied by Ulrich Staerk.
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8.224169
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
It's all captured in excellent, atmospheric sound that provides clarity, a warm sense of space, and a richly upholstered bottom. Marvelous.
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8.224126
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Schonwandt's rhythms are as punchy as his tempos are flowing. Nielsen's symphonies remain on the edge of the international repertoire--unjustly, because he's as great a symphonic composer as ever put pen to paper.
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8.224156
NIELSEN, C.: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5
In sum, these performances stand as the best modern recordings of these symphonies available, and Dacapo's engineers capture them in a wonderfully realistic and natural acoustic.
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