With this 2017 release on the Seattle Symphony label, Thomas Dausgaard presents his first recordings of symphonies by Carl Nielsen, the Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia Espansiva," and the Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable." (DaCapo's 2011 set of Nielsen's works included performances conducted by Dausgaard, who led the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in several popular orchestral pieces, but the six symphonies were conducted by Michael Schønwandt.) As a Danish conductor, Dausgaard has undoubtedly felt an obligation to ...
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With this 2017 release on the Seattle Symphony label, Thomas Dausgaard presents his first recordings of symphonies by Carl Nielsen, the Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia Espansiva," and the Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable." (DaCapo's 2011 set of Nielsen's works included performances conducted by Dausgaard, who led the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in several popular orchestral pieces, but the six symphonies were conducted by Michael Schønwandt.) As a Danish conductor, Dausgaard has undoubtedly felt an obligation to record Nielsen's symphonies, and their increasing acceptance by orchestras and audiences around the world has secured their place as modern classics. The Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia Espansiva" gets its nickname from the first movement's tempo marking, Allegro espansivo, though the symphony itself is tightly structured, rather dense in material, and compact in duration, running around 37 minutes. The work's claim to fame is the wordless vocal duet in the Andante pastorale between a soprano...
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