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title: "Syms 1 & 4"
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# Syms 1 & 4

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Product Description          "Music is life, and like life itself, music is inextinguishable," said the Danish national composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). Raised in the Danish countryside as the son of a poor folk musician, Nielsen's indomitable courage and infinite curiosity helped him develop into one of the greatest symphonists of the 20th century. This acclaimed series of Nielsen recordings, featuring the New York Philharmonic and their music director Alan Gilbert, has now reached the 1st and 4th symphonies, the former of which has never previously been performed - not to say recorded - by the New York Philharmonic.             Review          "An occasion to celebrate for Nielsen lovers everywhere." - The New York Times (after the performance in Avery Fisher Hall) "If there is any composer that Alan Gilbert conducts to perfection, it is Carl Nielsen." --The New Yorker<br \><br \>The New York Philharmonic is a powerhouse orchestra, Nielsen is a powerhouse symphonist, and Alan Gilbert revels in the music's energy and dynamism. 10/10 --ClassicsToday<br \><br \>Dacapo's engineering, as with the previous release in this series, is natural and very present. The woodwinds feel just slightly recessed in more fully scored sections, but I can attest that the music really does sound like this in actual performance with a large orchestra, and certainly nothing gets lost. More importantly, the engineers have captured the impression of a live performance, caught on the wing, and the audience is mercifully quiet. --David Hurwitz, classicstoday.com<br \><br \>"It's puzzling why Carl Nielsen's six symphonies, written between 1891 and 1925, are still widely undervalued. They offer a bracing alternative to the afterglow of Romanticism, and with off-kilter rhythms and compact, often spiky melodies, they still sound extraordinarily fresh. Especially so in new recordings by conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, who are in the middle of recording four albums of Nielsen's orchestral music." --Deceptive Cadence, NPR<br \><br \>Sometimes a musician just "gets" a composer's music, for example, the conductor Alan Gilbert and the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). When Mr. Gilbert began the Nielsen Project at the New York Philharmonic in 2011, a multiyear venture to perform and record the composer's six symphonies and three concertos, it was immediately clear that he had a special affinity for Nielsen's visionary music. --Tommasini, New York Times Classical Playlist"As a kid, Carl Nielsen made music by pounding on logs in the family woodpile. He'd grow up to become one of the most important, if still undervalued, symphony composers of the 20th century. Conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have been making a case for Nielsen, recording live performances of all six of the great Danish composer's symphonies. Pairing the First and Fourth shows both how bracing and fresh the works sound and how Nielsen's symphonic language developed. The first, even with its whiffs of Dvorak, reveals the characteristic Nielsen rhythmic life force and harmonic personality. The Fourth, from 1916, subtitled "The Inextinguishable," unfolds in one continuous flow, with episodes of rambunctious glee (lots of fun for two timpanists), potent introspection and, ultimately, triumph." --Tom Huizenga, NPR Best Classical Albums of 2014New York Times, Classical Best of 2014: Alan Gilbert again proves an inspired conductor of the visionary Danish composer Carl Nielsen in this impressive live recording with the New York Philharmonic, part of the Nielsen Project, Mr. Gilbert's survey of the six symphonies and three concertos. Here are gripping, insightful accounts of the First and Fourth Symphonies.-Anthony Tommasini, New York Times New York Times, Fall Preview, 2014: Closing one of the great successes of Alan Gilbert's tenure thus far, the New York Philharmonic comes to the end of a multiyear process of performing and recording the Danish composer Carl Nielsen's six symphonies and three concertos for the Dacapo label. The symphonic cycle wraps up in October, with the Fifth - Nielsen's great masterpiece - and the seething Sixth ("Sinfonia Semplice"), along with the overture to his opera "Maskarade." In January, Mr. Gilbert leads the Clarinet Concerto, featuring the orchestra's new principal clarinetist, Anthony McGill, who will be testing the waters at the Philharmonic in what is officially being called a leave of absence from his position with the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra. If all that is simply not enough of Nielsen, whose 150th anniversary is in 2015, his countrymen will have their say, too: the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, under Cristian Macelaru, will play the dramatic Fourth Symphony ("The Inextinguishable") in February at Carnegie Hall, on a program that also includes Sibelius' "Valse Triste" and Violin Concerto, featuring the great Anne-Sophie Mutter. --New York Times, September 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    and the 5 and 6 cd are the best I've heard
  

*by H***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2017*

I have an Osmo Vanska, BBC Scottish Symphony Nielsen Symphony cycle that I've had for about 8 years.  It's okay, but was never that crazy about it.  This Martin Gilbert/NY Phil changed my whole perspective about Nielsen's Symphonies.  This cd, along with the 3 and 2 cd, and the 5 and 6 cd are the best I've heard.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good performance of Nielsen
  

*by I***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2015*

UPS screwed up in the holiday rush but Amazon is not to be faulted. Good performance of Nielsen, invites more purchases of his compositions.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by W***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2015*

Great recording.

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