Orchestral, Symphonies, 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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[ 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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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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Special offer. 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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Building a Library, April 2014, First Choice
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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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Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
It couldn’t have a better advocate than James Ehnes: strong in his lyricism when he needs to be, alert to all dynamics and a sense of fantasy which is outstanding in the two cadenzas. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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[Davis] matches Herbert Blomstedt when it comes to grandeur and sense of the long evolving line, and yet the music also seems to fluid and changeable, and alive on so many levels. Full marks... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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