Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Winner
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...
Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Winner
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...
About
The first volume of this new cycle was widely acclaimed upon its release in December 2013 (BIS2028).
Symphony No. 1 owes much to Schumann and was completed in 1892, when the composer was still in his mid-twenties.
Symphony No. 3 was the true breakthrough work, following twenty years after the first symphony and rapidly taken up by Europe’s leading orchestras.
Contents and tracklist
Work length34:08
- Kungliga Filharmonikerna
- Sakari Oramo
- Recorded: January 2013
- Recording Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden
I. Allegro orgoglioso
Track length9:23
II. Andante
Track length7:35
III. Allegro comodo
Track length8:14
IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
Track length8:56
Work length38:16
- Anu Komsi, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson
- Kungliga Filharmonikerna
- Sakari Oramo
- Recorded: May 2014
- Recording Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden
I. Allegro espansivo
Track length11:28
II. Andante pastorale
Track length9:24
III. Allegretto un poco
Track length6:45
IV. Finale. Allegro
Track length10:39
Awards and reviews
March 2015
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 also a tender, affectionate streak in this symphony, which Oramo and his orchestra bring out well while resisting the temptation to indulge...The Sinfonia Espansiva (No. 3) is also finely controlled and full of character.
March 2015
Oramo had his Royal Stockholm Philharmonic wind players relax into [No. 1's] almost Baroque-like ornateness, and when the tune 'turns' in the violins, its does so with effortless charm...The 'Espansiva' heart of the [Third] is the second movement...and is a departure in every sense - it's a rarefied air that Oramo breathes.
April 2015
This is a Nielsen First to sweep listeners off their feet and blow old favourites into the proverbial weeds…[and the] Third is no less gripping...This is a field-leading release, both musically and sonically; roll on Two and Six.
18th January 2015
Bravo...to the Finnish conductor, a Sibelian whose credentials need no advertisement, for championing his national composer’s exact Danish contemporary’s symphonies. This second instalment of his Nielsen cycle offers bracing accounts of the G minor (No 1) and “Espansiva” (No 3).
