Complete Piano Music [Import]

Nielsen (Artist), Westenholz (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B00000168Y
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,091,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I. Folketone

2. II. Humoreske

3. III. Arabeske

4. IV. Mignon

5. V. Alfedans

6. I. Intonation. Maestoso

7. II. Quasi Allegretto

8. III. Andante

9. IV. Finale. Allegro

10. I. Goddag! Goddag!

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. I. Allegretto Un Pochettino

2. II. Poco Moderato

3. III. Molto Adagio E Patetico

4. IV. Allegretto Innocente

5. V. Allegretto Vivo

6. VI. Allegretto Non Troppo Ma Vigoroso

7. I. Allegretto

8. II. Allegretto

9. 9/1. III. Allegro Scherzoso-Grazioso

10. IV. Andantino

See all 35 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Just for die hard Nielsen 's fans!, October 1, 2007

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Piano Music (Audio CD)

First at all, there is to remark Carl Nielsen was a violinist, and just used the piano as a working instrument when he composed.

Nielsen's piano music was composed in quite three different phases. The first of these covers the last decade of the XIX Century, it just about domestic music and sincerely it doesn't present major importance.

The second period to my view is the most interesting of all. Three major compositions seem to prove it by far.

The Chaconne OP. 32, - written in 1917 - for instance. Such work is hovered by a dark and autumnal poetry, strongly spiced with phantasmagoric ornaments and incorporeal thrills. The transitions are almost indiscernible. It begins unmistakably in D minor and ends sophistically in the major.

Theme and Variations Op. 40 is if I may, a descriptive, and cheerfully programmatic piece, and it seems to have been inspired when he went to the Zoo, according the words of Anne Marie Telmanyi.

The Suite op. 45 best known as Luciferan (although Nielsen wrote it in the literal sense of Lucifer= (Bringer of light) and basically consists OF Six variations.

I got this set because among other reasons I am a profound admirer of Nielsen's music; so in this sense I recommend it.

On the other hand, I cannot give this performance five stars due Madame Westenholz is extremely flat in the whole sound and so lacks in expression.