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

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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."

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