For a while in the '60s, it looked like Danish fin de siècle symphonist Carl Nielsen was going to hit it as big as his Austrian contemporary Gustav Mahler. His six symphonies got a fair number of recordings by such international conductors as Bernstein, Ormandy, Horenstein, Previn, and Barbirolli and received a fair number of positive reviews from international critics. But the '60s ended, and while Mahler's symphonies have become part of the standard international repertoire, Nielsen's have remained the almost exclusive ...
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For a while in the '60s, it looked like Danish fin de siècle symphonist Carl Nielsen was going to hit it as big as his Austrian contemporary Gustav Mahler. His six symphonies got a fair number of recordings by such international conductors as Bernstein, Ormandy, Horenstein, Previn, and Barbirolli and received a fair number of positive reviews from international critics. But the '60s ended, and while Mahler's symphonies have become part of the standard international repertoire, Nielsen's have remained the almost exclusive property of Danish conductors, though the Finns have made successful forays into his music.This 2008 disc, however, demonstrates that the loss is entirely to the international repertoire because it is as compelling a performance of Nielsen's Fifth and greatest symphony since the '60s. English conductor Mark Elder clearly has a strong feeling for the Fifth, grasping both its romantic roots and its modernist intentions and uniting its embattled opening movements and its striving...
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