The fourth and fifth of Carl Nielsen's six symphonies are the only ones commonly heard, at least outside of Scandinavia, but conductor Thomas Dausgaard made a successful recording of the Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 ("Sinfonia espansiva"), with the Seattle Symphony in 2017, with the Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 ("Inextinguishable"), and earned a Grammy nomination for his efforts. He returns with the rarest pair of the six, captured in live performances in Seattle, and he makes a strong case for their revival. The Symphony No. 1, Op. 7, ...
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The fourth and fifth of Carl Nielsen's six symphonies are the only ones commonly heard, at least outside of Scandinavia, but conductor Thomas Dausgaard made a successful recording of the Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 ("Sinfonia espansiva"), with the Seattle Symphony in 2017, with the Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 ("Inextinguishable"), and earned a Grammy nomination for his efforts. He returns with the rarest pair of the six, captured in live performances in Seattle, and he makes a strong case for their revival. The Symphony No. 1, Op. 7, completed in 1892, is essentially a student essay in the Beethoven-Brahms mold, but it has a packed, restless quality that suggests originality, and it's entirely listenable. The Symphony No. 2, Op. 16, from a decade later, has the unusual subtitle "The Four Temperaments," and it is here that Nielsen's formal genius first truly begins to show itself. The four movements are, as promised, each based on the four temperaments or humors of medieval medicine (choleric, phlegmatic,...
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