Gramophone Awards, Nielsen (composer)

Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[ Symphony No. 5] The richness of the first movement is brought out with exceptional vividness, and Luisi’s sure rhythmic pulse keeps the music animated without let-up. As in the Fourth Symphony,... — Fanfare, March/April 2023More…

[the Nielsen] merits the supreme artistry that Shraon Bezaly brings to it, both in terms of deft, discerningly harnessed virtuosity and in her supple, sinuous shaping of the music. Neeme Jarvi... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013More…

…this disc is a good reminder of just how experimental Nielsen could be: prepared to try out not just different stylistic devices but even different kinds of persona. Thomas Dausgaard conducts... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Frang makes almost as much of a strange adventure out of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto as she does of Nielsen's typically quirky specimen...There can be no higher praise for Eivind Hullberg... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Speed requires confidence, and you can feel the Seattle Symphony’s building with this further exploration of what remains an alien aesthetic to so many orchestras. More to the point, Nielsen’s... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2020More…