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Nielsen - Symphonies Nos 1 & 6 | Naxos 8570737

Nielsen - Symphonies Nos 1 & 6

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570737

Barcode: 0747313073771

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Contents

Artists

Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR

Conductor

Michael Schonwandt

Works

Nielsen, Carl

Symphony no.1 in G minor, op.7
Symphony no.6, 'Sinfonia semplice'

Artists

Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR

Conductor

Michael Schonwandt

About

The most important Danish composer of the first part of the twentieth century, Carl Nielsen was prolific in almost all genres. Dissociating himself strongly from Late Romanticism, Nielsen orientated himself increasingly towards the new currents in European music without at any time abandoning his very personal and idiosyncratic style.

The Six Symphonies, which become increasingly adventurous as the cycle progresses, are essentially tonal, emotionally direct works, which alternate long lines of melody with passages of blazing energy.

The exuberant Symphony No.1 is here coupled with the enigmatic Symphony No.6, which has been described as “music of clear sunlight and sudden shadows”.

This is the welcome completion of what now ranks, in my judgment, as the best set of the Nielsen symphonies yet accomplished in the recording medium.” - Fanfare on the original Dacapo release (8.224169)

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