Orchestral, Nielsen (composer)
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Luisi deserves the lion’s share of the credit. Instead of walking a fine line between the contrasting elements in Nielsen’s music, Luisi fully embraces those contrasts. At the same time, he... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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It's a joy to find so much intelligent care and attention expended on Nielsen's First Symphony...You can feel the exuberance, the intellectual control, and also the sense of danger...But there's... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Winner
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Oramo certainly knows how to generate and sustain a good current. Both of these symphonies are conceived as strong, purposeful wholes...Oramo also has a truly admirable way with phrasing Nielsen's... —
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[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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Sakari Oramo's cycle of Nielsen symphonies roars to its conclusion with an account of the Second, The Four Temperaments, irresistibly driven by a fifth - Oramo himself. The choleric hero positively... —
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[ 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,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Recording of the Year and Orchestral Winner
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Nielsen: The Symphonies & Concertos
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano) & Joshua Hopkins (baritone), Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Helios & Symphony No. 5
Alessandro Carbonare (soloist), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Carbonare's virtuosity searches out every corner of the exacting solo part, while Gardner's accompaniments are vivid and alert...Then comes the Fifth Symphony, in an interpretation brilliantly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, April 2014, First Choice
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…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... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the Month
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