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Symphony No.3 in C major, op.22
Andante con moto - Poco piu moto Allegretto agevole Andante lento, pastorale Andante lento - Allegro maestoso Hjortholm - Tone picture, op.53 Bamberger Symphoniker FRANK CRAMER |
| Ludolf Nielsen's (1876 - 1939) third and last symphony is one of the greatest Danish works in the Late Romantic style, where Ludolf Nielsen concentrates the essence of his Romantic view of life on the basic of the motto of the work:`I see the world with flowers bedight, / Know joy requires a stormy night´. The tone picture Hjortholm is ten years younger, and is an example of his tonal idiom from the inter-war years. Both works are first recordings, and show Ludolf Nielsen as a master of orchestral writing. |
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| 'Conductor Cramer (a German, born in Essen) leads sensitive and sensible performances.The orchestra plays splendidly, with real feeling for the music.The recording (September 1999 in Bamberg) is clean, crisp, and clear – all one could ask for!' |
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| McLain, American Recording Guide, Sept. / Oct. 2000 | |
| 'It is a superb and deeply moving reading that invites a wide audience for this previously unrecorded symphony, and had I to choose just one highlight of this listening year, this it would have to be, by a wide margin.' |
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| Michael Jameson, The Fanfare, Nov. / Dec. 2000 | |
| 'This is a magnificent orchestral piece, deeply romantic in its delicacy of sensations and epic structure, full of soaring melodies, sensuous in sound (never again did Nielsen write for a larger orchestration), but clear and manifest in structure:a wonderful alternative to the long time classics of Romanticism.' |
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| Andreas Obst, FAZ, July 14, 2000 | |
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