Despite giving titles to the majority of his symphonies, Danish composer Carl Nielsen was often vague about what influenced each work. Nevertheless he was a master symphonist and his music is mesmerising, combining propulsive energy with lyrical invention.
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Reviews
Top Classical Albums of 2011
"... the great British maestro brings the expansiveness and rigour of his celebrated Sibelius to two of the Danish composer’s most frequently heard symphonies."
The Sunday Times - 11 December 2011
Editor’s Choice
"At last! Nielsen’s two best-known symphonies in modern performances with real fire in their belly he [Davis] brings animal excitement to the task, such asthrilling sense of discovery and existential danger"
Gramophone - March 2011
CD of the Month
Hi FI Magazine
Orchestral - Choice of the Month
BBC Music Magazine
"... this disc bodes well for the rest of Davis’s Nielsen cycle over the coming year."
Richard Whitehouse - International Record Review - February 2011
’The playing and recording are both exemplary’
The Guardian
’Disc of the Week’
The Sunday Times
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