Concertos, Violin Concertos, Nielsen (composer)
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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJohan Dalene (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Dalene has a strong command of long evolving lines – crucial in both composers – but he balances that with a fine feeling for ‘speaking’ phrasing and articulation...The expression can certainly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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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: 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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Nielsen: The Concertos
Bomsori (violin), Ulla Miilmann (flute), Johnny Teyssier (clarinet), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
The chameleonic protagonist is the great Dane himself, inhabiting at least four temperaments in each concerto…the soloists tune into that with unparalleled vividness, responding so sensitively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Concerto
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Nielsen & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
Vilde Frang (violin)
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Gullberg Jensen
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Concerto
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Special offer. Korngold & Nielsen: Violin Concertos
Jiyoon Lee (violin)
Odense Symphony Orchestra, Kristiina Poska
Lee's playing is full-toned, consistent and energetic, besides technically spot-on, and she brings out to excellent effect the Korngold Concerto's first movement's yearning character, and the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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New. Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Complete Warner Classics Edition
Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Nielsen: Concertos
RecommendedRobert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet), Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
In the Violin Concerto Nikolaj Znaider, sweet and slender in tone, is equal to all the work's ferocious technical demands. He treats the first movement's Bach-inspired cadenzas with convincing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2015
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Scandinavian Classics Volume 1
Copenhagen Philharmonic and Danish State Radio Orchestra, Thomas Jensen
