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Nielsen – Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

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Catalogue numberBIS-2048 SACD
Release date2015-01-01
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time72:28

“Orchestral Choice”, BBC Music Magazine
“Recording of the Month”, MusicWeb-International.com
Disco excepcional, Scherzo

"An impressive second volume from what's turning into a must-hear Nielsen cycle." BBC Radio 3 CD Review

‘The new benchmark’ and ‘set to become the reference recordings’ – these are a couple of the verdicts on the new Carl Nielsen cycle from Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, based on the team’s performances of the Fourth and Fifth symphonies, released in 2013 (BIS-2028). For the present instalment, Sakari Oramo has chosen the composer’s first attempt in the genre, completed in 1892: a work by a composer still in his mid-twenties, and mindful if not overly respectful of previous models. Thoroughly classical in its proportions, Symphony No.1 owes much to Schumann, while at the same time displaying affinities with the fieriness of Berlioz, with the lyrical tone of Grieg, and with the rhythmic vitality of Grieg’s fellow-Norwegian Johan Svendsen, who conducted the work’s première. (In later years Nielsen often conducted his own music, but at this time he was still dependent on his income as an orchestral player, and sat among the second violins.) If the work met with a certain sympathy – one influential critic wrote that the work promised ‘a coming storm of genius’ – what might be termed Carl Nielsen’s ‘definitive’ breakthrough as a symphonist only came some 20 years later, with the première of Symphony No.3, later subtitled Sinfonia espansiva. The work was described by one reviewer as ‘genuinely Carl Nielsenesque in all its strange mixture of naiveté and refinement, humour and lyricism, violence and grace’, and it was soon taken up by orchestras across Europe. In the second movement, Andante pastorale, Nielsen unusually adds vocalises for solo soprano and baritone: as he put it in one of his programme notes, the aim was ‘to underscore the peaceful atmosphere you might imagine in Paradise before the Fall of our first parents, Adam and Eve’. The movement was played at Carl Nielsen’s funeral, in Copenhagen Cathedral on 9th October 1931.
 
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  Composer: Nielsen, Carl
  Symphony No.1 in G minor, Op.7 / FS16 (1891–92) 33:46
01 I. Allegro orgoglioso 09:21 $ 2.24 USD
02 II. Andante 07:34 $ 1.82 USD
03 III. Allegro comodo – Andante sostenuto – Tempo I 08:13 $ 1.97 USD
04 IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco 08:38 $ 2.07 USD
 
  Symphony No.3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva’, Op.27 / FS60 (1910–11) 37:31
05 I. Allegro espansivo 11:23 $ 2.73 USD
06 II. Andante pastorale 09:17 $ 2.23 USD
07 III. Allegretto un poco 06:41 $ 1.60 USD
08 IV. Finale. Allegro 10:10 $ 2.44 USD
 
  Album total 72:28
ComposerNielsen, Carl
ConductorOramo, Sakari
OrchestraRoyal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
SopranoKomsi, Anu
BaritoneFredriksson, Karl-Magnus

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