With this 2014 release on DaCapo, Alan Gilbert continues his exceptional SACD series of the symphonies of Carl Nielsen, performed with high energy and technical brilliance by the New York Philharmonic. One doesn't often find audiophile recordings by this orchestra, but the NYP seems to have a special connection to Nielsen's music that goes back to the important recordings Leonard Bernstein made with them in the 1960s, and the hybrid multichannel format is an ideal way to do justice to these multidimensional works. The ...
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With this 2014 release on DaCapo, Alan Gilbert continues his exceptional SACD series of the symphonies of Carl Nielsen, performed with high energy and technical brilliance by the New York Philharmonic. One doesn't often find audiophile recordings by this orchestra, but the NYP seems to have a special connection to Nielsen's music that goes back to the important recordings Leonard Bernstein made with them in the 1960s, and the hybrid multichannel format is an ideal way to do justice to these multidimensional works. The Symphony No. 1 and the Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," were separated by a little more than two decades, but the distance between them seems much greater because they straddle the Belle époque and World War I. Both symphonies show Nielsen's characteristic folk-like themes, strong propulsion, and rugged counterpoint, but the Symphony No. 1 was influenced by Brahms and shows a late Romantic harmonic richness, while the Symphony No. 4 is more linear, transparent in textures, and...
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