NIELSEN: Orchestral Masterworks - 6CD Set
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD
Categories: Box Sets, Chamber Music, Orchestral Music
Budget Periods: 20th Century, Romantic
Composers: Carl Nielsen
Directors: Ole Schmidt, Tamas Veto
Performers: Jennifer Stinton, John McCaw, London Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Saeka Matsuyama
Available: 2
Price: $41.99
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Orchestral Masterworks: 6CD Set
Complete Symphonies
Complete Concertos
Overtures and Suites
London Symphony Orchestra
Ole Schmidt
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Tamas Veto
With:
Saeka Matsuyama
John McCaw
Jennifer Stinton
CD1-3: Complete Symphonies 1-6 / LSO / Ole Schmidt
CD4: Concertos: (Violin) Saela Matsuyama / Odense Orchestra / Jan Wagner
(Clarinet) Jan McCaw / New Philharmonic / Raymond Leppard
(Flute) Jennifer Stinton / SCO / Steuart Bedford
CD5: Rhapsody Overture; Little Suite; Maskarade Overture, Prelude & Dance; The Mother; Pan & Syrinx; En Sagadrom; Saul & David Overture / Odense Symphony Orchestra / Tamas Veto
CD6: Alladin Suite; Springtime in Funen; 3 Motets / Odense Orchestra / Veto / Woldlike
Track Data available from Regis releases: RRC1036, 1134, 1166, 1208, 2046
(Symphonies) "Ablaze with life and a sense of discovery...Schmidt is a sure and penetrating guide...authentic...real feeling for glorious music."
Pengiun Guide
(Concertos)(Violin)"Stunning performance...uplifting rhythmic lilt and a certain rustic vigour...perfect intonation...result is as fine a version as any."
Classics Today
(Overtures / Suites) "Concentration on lighter, more concise Neilsen...vividly characterised and easily recommendable...Little Suite most winning."
Music Web
(Alladin / Springtime) "Enchantinh pieces...yet hardly performed outside Denmark...marvelous performances...Alladin (deserves) popularity of Peer Gynt."
Gramophone