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作曲家: Nielsen
演出者: James Ehnes (violin) 
指揮家: Edward Gardner
樂團: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Nielsen's epic Violin Concerto was premiered in Copenhagen in February 1912, by the violinist Peder Moller. Nominally the work is structured in two movements; each opens with a slow section and moves to a faster one. Whilst unusual, this layout could be seen as a more usual fast – slow – fast three-movement form, but with an extensive slow introduction to the first movement. The music moves quickly from one idea to the next, and overall has a bold, playful, and optimistic atmosphere. In stark contrast, although written only a few years later, the Fourth Symphony is more cohesive and unified as a work. Written against the background of the First World War, the work is a celebration of life itself. Just before the premiere, in 1916, Nielsen gave it the following motto: 'Music is Life, and, like it, inextinguishable.' While it follows the usual four-movement design, each movement continues into the next without a break. The final movement features two sets of timpani battling each other across the orchestra. The recording was made in Bergen's Grieghallen, in Surround Sound, and is available as a hybrid SACD and in Spatial Audio.

曲目:

CARL NIELSEN
Concerto, Op.33, FS 61 *33:19
for Violin and Orchestra
Dedicated to Emil Telmanyi
1. I Præludium. Largo - (Quaver = 76) - 6:16
A tempo, ma molto tranquillo (Quaver = 60) - (Quaver = 69) -
A tempo (Quaver = 60) - A tempo, ma tranquillo - Molto adagion (Quaver = 40) -
2. Allegro cavalleresco (Minim = 84) - Poco meno (Minim = 63) - 12:03
A tempo, ma tranquillo -
Cadenza. [ ] - Poco tranquillo - Quasi andantino -
Piu mosso (Crotchet = 100) - Tempo I (Minim = 84) - Poco meno -
Piu presto
3. II Poco adagio - Poco agitato - Tranquillo - A tempo, ma tranquillo - 5:37
4. Rondo. Allegretto scherzando - Tranquillo - Semplice - Cadenza. [ ] - 9:23
Tempo I - Tranquillo - A tempo

Symphony No.4, Op.29, FS 76 ''The Inextinguishable'' 34:25
(''Det Uudslukkelige'')
5. Allegro - A tempo, ma tranquillo - Un pochettino di piu - 12:20
Tranquillo - Risoluto e giusto -
Molto tranquillo - Tempo I - Poco allegretto -
6. A tempo [Poco allegretto] - A tempo ma tranquillo - 4:24
7. Poco adagio quasi andante - Con fuoco - A tempo [I] - 9:04
Poco adagio - Molto tranquillo - Un poco agitato -
Tempo I - Un poco agitato - Tempo I - Agitato un poco -
Adagio - Un poco piu vivo, ma pesante -
Piu lento - Un poco piu vivo, ma tenuto - Con anima -
8. Allegro - Stabilimento - Poco pesante - Glorioso - 8:35
Piu mosso - Tempo giusto

Total time: 67:42