Nielsen: Flute Concerto - Clarinet Concerto - Aladdin Suite
3/3/2017, 13 Tracks, 1:09:20
Featuring
Samuel Coles
Paavo Järvi
Mark van de Wiel
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carl August Nielsen
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Compositional Technique
The Flute Concerto features a playful antagonism between the solo flute and a bass trombone, which Robert Simpson described as "spread[ing] himself all over the score with a grotesque and aimless blether."
Compositional Technique
The Clarinet Concerto, despite its modernist edge, is built on Classical structural principles, with its movements flowing into one another without a break.
Performer Biography
Paavo Järvi, the conductor, is known for his close affinity to Carl Nielsen's music and has recorded the complete Nielsen symphony cycle, which received international acclaim.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Carl Nielsen, the composer, believed that musical instruments have a soul and that he would "creep into them" to compose.
Composition History
Nielsen's Flute Concerto was part of a larger, uncompleted plan to write a concerto for each instrument in his 1922 Wind Quintet.
Critical Reception
The Clarinet Concerto initially received cool reviews from critics, with one describing it as "absolutely the worst thing that this slightly too obviously experimental and provocatively sidestepping Dane has yet put together."
Composition History
The Aladdin Suite was created by Carl Nielsen as a standalone concert work before the theatrical production for which it was written opened, due to concerns about the production's handling of his music.
