Nielsen: Complete Chamber Works for Winds

Ensemble MidtVest

CPO 777872

The Danish ensemble MidtVest from Jutland scored a success with its very first cpo production featuring its finely chiseled and richly colored interpretation of Francis Poulenc's wind sonatas: »Flawless playing technique marks the ensemble's high rank – a meritorious production« (Ensemble 12 / 12). On its new cpo CD the ensemble turns to Carl Nielsen's complete wind chamber works (apart from the sixteen measures of the recorder duet of 1931). Composed over a period of forty years, these compositions offer an exemplary overview of a substantial part of Nielsen's overall musical development. Nielsen himself was very much taken with the individual sound of the various wind instruments and the possibilities offered by their playing technique. In these pieces we hear both the simplicity and folk tradition conveying themselves in Nielsen's more than 250 songs as well as the grand format demonstrated exemplarily in the expansive and mighty expressive will of his six symphonies. Moreover, these are very catchy compositions presented in an entertaining style. This is the first time that they have been brought together in such completeness in recorded form.

CD

3.12.2013

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