Nielsen - Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 Orchestral & Concertos LSO Live

Nielsen - Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

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LS 0722

Nielsen - Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Label Catalogue Number:
LSO0722

Running Time: 66:35

Release Date: February 2013
Originally recorded in 2011

Composer
Carl Nielsen

Solo - (soprano)
Emily Hall

Solo - (baritone)
Marcus Farnsworth

Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor
Sir Colin Davis

Producer
James Mallinson

Engineer
Neil Hutchinson

Venue
The Barbican, London

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos

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CARL NIELSEN

Symphony No.2 'The Four Temperaments' *

Allegro collerico (Choleric)

9:57

Allegro comodo e flemmatico (Phlegmatic)

4:16

Andante malincolico (Melancholic)

9:54

Allegro sanguineo - Marziale (Sanguine)

7:47

Symphony No.3 'Sinfonia Espansiva' **

Allegro espansivo

11:28

Andante pastorale

7:26

Allegretto un poco

6:29

Finale: Allegro

9:18

66:35

Solo: Emily Hall - (soprano)

Solo: Marcus Farnsworth - (baritone)

(track 6)

Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Sir Colin Davis

Recorded live:

* 4 & 6 December 2011 and ** 11 & 13 December 2011

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Reviews

Music *** (Good) Sound *** (Good)

Michael Kube - Fono Forum magazine - November 2013

"... Colin Davis’s controlled, neoclassical approach is refreshing. The London Symphony playes like a great Nielsen orchestra with its crisp winds and brass and clear silky strings, and it takes such an orchestra to make Davis’s cool approach work ..."

Roger Hecht - American Record Guide - May/June 2013

***** Exceptional

Giuseppe Rossi - Musica magazine - April 2013

Performance **** Recording ***

"... an exhilarating display of the life-force at full blast in both composer and conductor."

Anthony Burton - BBC Music magazine - May 2013

**** Excellent album

John Tyler Tuttle - Classica magazine - April 2013

"... Davis’s readings are a notable achievement, and one can only admire his having taken on a major cycle ..."

Richard Whitehouse - International Record Review - March 2013

"... Sir Colin Davis’s interpretations of the great Dane’s idiosyncratic and tempestuous scores have been revelations."

The Times

"With this sublime setting down of Symphonies 2 & 3, Colin Davis brings to a triumphant conclusion his enlightening Nielsen symphony cycle. The first title in the series, Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, was an instant critical success (with some caveats), while the second, with Symphonies 1 & 6, was similarly acclaimed. Nielsen’s Second Symphony was a result of the composer’s exposure to a naïve painting representing the four temperaments of the human personality. The Third is the most characteristically Danish of his symphonies, and is given a non-pareil reading here in glowing surround sound which tames the Barbican acoustic."

Classical CD Choice (UK)

"... Zesty and affectionate, with depth of feeling when required, there is a freshness to this account that makes it worth hearing, and the joyous finale has a bounce that is infectious."

ClassicalSource.com

Pick of the Week

"... Colin Davis establishes himself as a first-class Nielsenian on our pick of the week With this coupling, Davis leaves the best for last, too: Nielsen’s most accessible symphony, “The Four Temperaments” (No 2), a work ideally suited to Davis’s volatile humours; and the “Sinfonia Espansiva”, arguably the composer’s greatest and most characteristically nationalist."

The Sunday Times

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