Carl Nielsen: Symphonien Nr.2 & 3 (CD)

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schönwandt

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Artists:: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schönwandt
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 1999
Item number:: 3461175
UPC/EAN:: 0747313073870
Release date:: 30.5.2008

The most important Danish composer of the first third of the twentieth century, Carl Nielsen was prolific in almost all genres. Dissociating himself strongly from Late Romanticism, Nielsen orientated himself increasingly towards the new currents in European music without any time abandoning his very personal and idiosyncratic style. The Six Symphonies, which become increasingly adventurous as the cycle progresses, are essentially tonal, emotionally direct works, which alternate long lines of melody with passages of blazing energy. The idea of writing a symphony based on the Four Temperaments - The Choleric, The Sanguine, The Melancholic, and The Phlegmatic, came to Nielsen when he saw a primitive peasant painting in a village inn. The title of the Third Symphony, Sinfonie espansiva, an afterthought, has been explained as an expansion of the scope of the mind and of the life that comes with it.

Reviews

M. Kube in FonoForum 4/00: "Geist, Herz und Sinne werden hier gleichermaßen angesprochen. Eine grandiose Einspielung."

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, FS 60, "Sinfonia espansiva": I. Allegro espansivo
2 Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, FS 60, "Sinfonia espansiva": II. Andante pastorale
3 Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, Fs 60, "sinfonia Espansiva": Iii. Allegretto Un Poco
4 Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, FS 60, "Sinfonia espansiva": IV. Finale: Allegro
5 Symphony No. 2, Op. 16, FS 29, "The 4 Temperaments": I. Allegro collerico
6 Symphony No. 2, Op. 16, FS 29, "The 4 Temperaments": II. Allegro comodo e flammatico
7 Symphony No. 2, Op. 16, Fs 29, "the 4 Temperaments": Iii. Andante Malincolico
8 Symphony No. 2, Op. 16, FS 29, "The 4 Temperaments": IV. Allegro sanguineo