Carl Nielsen - Symphonies Nos.4 & 5_音乐专辑
Carl Nielsen - Symphonies Nos.4 & 5
又名: 尼尔森《第四与第五交响曲》
表演者: Michael Schonwandt/Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2000
唱片数: 1
出版者: Dacapo
条形码: 0730099985628
专辑简介
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Carl Nielsen's mature symphonies have been well represented on disc. Considering the Fourth, for example, the listener can choose between Leonard Bernstein's searing account for CBS, Bryden Thomson's more sober approach, and Herbert Blomstedt's excellent Decca recording, all with very good sound. And for the Fifth, there's Bernstein again, in a classic recording that helped popularize Nielsen's music in the States, as well as Blomstedt and a handful of others. The Danes, however, have begun reclaiming Nielsen as their own, first rereleasing some historic recordings performed by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and now a digital series with essentially the same organization conducted by Michael Sch?nwandt, who has returned to the manuscript sources for a somewhat more authentic Nielsen than we're used to hearing. But instead of offering the musicology lesson of the scholar-conductor, Sch?nwandt has recorded these symphonies in a way that, for sheer power, conviction, and natural presence, will delight Nielsen lovers and become the definitive versions for years to come.
Sch?nwandt persuades us to rethink some earlier recordings' excesses. He takes the composer's antiromanticism at his word ("A harp in the orchestra is a like a hair in the soup," Nielsen once remarked), but retains his ferocity and speed. The energy of this Fourth, the "inextinguishable" quality of life and art that it embodies, easily overpowers the score's occasional darkness and distress. But will we ever hear the battle of the timpani performed more fearsomely? The same goes for the snare drum's attempts to disrupt the narrative flow of the Fifth, which ultimately transcends discord. Nielsen responded to the brutality of the early 20th century by reaffirming the primacy of the creative force. Sch?nwandt's disc serves that purpose to the ultimate degree. --Robert Burns Neveldine
曲目
# Symphony No. 4 ("Inextinguishable"), Op 29/FS 76
Composed by Carl Nielsen
Conducted by Michael Schoenwandt
# Symphony No. 5, Op 50/FS 97
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Tom Nybye, Niels Thomsen
Conducted by Michael Schoenwandt
