Great Danes in spirited Carl Nielsen anniversary celebration

By Mark Pullinger, 21 August 2015

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“Luisi... took to Nielsen like a mermaid to Copenhagen’s waters”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 20 August 2015

Nielsen, Helios, overture, Op.17

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77

Nielsen, Three Motets

Nielsen, Hymnus Amoris

Nielsen, Symphony no. 2, "The Four Temperaments", Op.16

Nielsen, Maskarade: Dance of the cockerels

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Violin

Anna Lucia Richter, Soprano

David Danholt, Tenor

Danish National Concert Choir

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, Conductor

Winchester Cathedral Choir

Old and new from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Dominic Lowe, 21st August

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that blends two modern works with Beethoven's Ninth.

***11

Steinbacher delivers superb Beethoven in SF

Mayumi Wardrop, 3rd April

Fabio Luisi and the DNSO did not disappoint audiences in San Francisco, presenting a captivating program of Beethoven, Strauss and Nielsen.

****1

St Matthew Passion in Copenhagen

Cynthia Wilson, 10th April

Admittedly, it has been quite some time since I heard a St Matthew Passion in a concert hall as opposed to a church. The Concert Hall of the Danish Radio in Copenhagen is an impressive building both inside and out; it was well-filled and buzzing with excitement for a passion featuring the radio orchestra, choir as well as young and attractive international soloists.

**111

Prom 35: An Evening with the Danish National Orchestra

Simon Birch, 11th August

The evening’s music commenced with Ligeti’s Night; Morning, one of the composer’s last works before his emigration to the West. Although only a very short piece, it exhibits some of the compositional approaches that are now synonymous with Ligeti’s style.

Old and new from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Dominic Lowe, 21st August

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that blends two modern works with Beethoven's Ninth.

***11

St Matthew Passion in Copenhagen

Cynthia Wilson, 10th April

**111

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Prom 46: Great Danes in spirited Carl Nielsen anniversary celebration