Carl Nielsen - Quintet op. 43. CARION HD 

Extraordinary performance of this Carl Nielsen masterwork by the Carion musicians!

CARION,because of your fantastic playing I have forgotten that you are Danish. Honnør to Denmark!!!

What a masterful quintet by one of my favorite composers in a performance full of nuance, personality and the quirkiness of later Nielsen in all it's glory.

A whole new genre created. Opera for wind instruments. Fascinating and amazing memorisation. Thanks.

This was just fabulous, the best I've heard, & I wore the grooves off the old record 40 years ago. The staging is a fantastic idea, captivating, even adds insight to the musical structure. Above all, Nielsen showing off one brilliant musical idea after another, rare to see so much in one piece.

0:00 Allegro ben moderato 8:58 Menuet 13:52 Præludium 16:05 Tema med variationer

I come back to this vibrant piece having realized that Nielsen's music has become the center of my listening, finding it challenging me to rethink how I understand it and what it means to my valuing other composers I keep returning to, among them Aaron Copland and John Adams.

glad you like it! it is an argument the clarinetist and bassoonist is having there, our performance style allows us to do it for real on stage. We are glad you find it effective as well.

Excelente. Ustedes son música viva. Bendiciones.

I performed this many times when I was younger and much more active as a performing bassoonist and chamber musician. I never get tired of this piece....one of the most enchanting compositions for woodwinds! Thanks for such an invigorating and beautiful performance!

wonderful! I am driving an OTR truck in eastern Colorado. you make my work much more enjoyable!

This is an absolutely fantastic performance of a masterpiece for wind ensemble. Thanks for posting it here.

Hi! Looks like an amazing concert series. Beautiful.

Excellent music, stellar performances, both musically and dramatically.

Hitting that like button when I'm only 6 minutes in because a) it's already amazing and b) I know it will only get better

What a treasure.....BRAVI TUTTI from Acapulco!

Música excelsa y lugar no menos ideal. Bravo 👏 👏 👏, desde España.

I totally loved! The performance is absolutely beautiful, the balance and the sound is perfect!

Love this quintet, love this performance. Not being confined to a chair and interacting with each other adds a whole new dimension. As a bassoonist it is nice not to see all the fiddling around with reeds. Great memorization! I ejoy all of your postings. Keep up the good work!

A masterpiece of a work, and I have never heard it performed better. Ravishing sound by all. LOve the oboist's sound and playing, but you are all so good. The flute player has made me love and appreciate the flute again

What an amazing and inspiring performance!! Our (amateur) quintet in New York City is playing this piece and we are blown away!!

Amazing quintet, outstanding performance! (And, by far, the most handsome bassoonist I've ever seen!)

Ha! The horn player @ 4:20 is like "listen bitches"

Yes very enjoyable rendition - in the dramatising of the performance one really gets the dual sense of what Nielsen achieved in this musical piece, i.e., conveying both the personality of the instruments and his friends, in this form of musical impressionism he was similar to Elgar in his Enigma Variations - on top of this I am fascinated by the reception of the work - here I mean the feeling of acoustic space - the Gestalt of music - and this seems very tricky, to get the right calibration between the performers - this can be corrected in a recording - but live it always presents a problem - the danger that the wrong instrument will dominate - happily in this musical narrative everything succeeds - and yes it is a marvellous performance and production.

Absolutely beautiful performance . So effectively staged as well. Thank you for sharing this.

the clarinet entrance at 19:30 is the best :D

***** , its recorded seperately, to be released on CD soon. But this is how we perform the piece at concerts. Thanks for your kind words!

Such a music candy!

I used to own that bassoon, you sound wonderful on it Niels!

The choral at 26+ minutes is wonderfully done. Performing the Quintet by memory is most impressive. I have performed this piece with my Quintet(oboe/EH) and thus can really appreciate your great performance. I think the choral section could be the signature opening for a Quintet performance concert. To me no other passage in the literature demonstrates the essence of the quintet sound so well. Ronald Bowers, MD

I play flute, and my brother plays bassoon, and you guys are musicians to definitely look up to! Thank you so much for the video!!!!

Can absolutely not be better performed. Mon chapeau.

love the music and the "play"

Simply fantastic!

Brilliant!

It's a Wonderful Comic Interesting Perfomance! Thanks a Lot !!!

What a great sound and what beautiful music!

beautiful and dramatic realisation that goes to the heart of this extraordinary piece

An awesome piece and an awesome ensemble performing it!

Bravo!

Bravo!!!!

I love this music and the ensemble

SUPERB show - bravo and congrats

This is so fantastic!

Thanks for your excellence and generosity! You made a quiet evening special for me.

Wonderful and Lovely ! I mean the music play !

Very nice environment for the recording. I love the Glyptothek.

excellent performance! BRAVO

Ravishing performance!!!!

Mesmerising!

Wonderful playing ! Thank you so much :)

Beautifully done! It's so impressive that you guys are doing it by memory. Love it!

bellissimo da sentire, e da suonare, anche per il fagotto ...

Congratulations for such a fine performance, so inspiring and cautivating. The fact of playing by heart makes it so much moving and interesting. Fantastic.

ただただ素晴らしい最高の演奏 Just love you guys the best.

What a pleasant surprise did I stumble upon on youtube, great performance guys!!!!!

素晴らしいです

Che dire....magnifici!

Wonderful!

this is beautiful wow

wow, that is awesome!

19:30 is like my cat and my neighbor’s cat react when they see each other

Fantastic

Superb.

I was a little skeptical at first, but your presentation really serves the music. Very enjoyable.

Bellissimo. Braviiiiii;!!!!!!

can't stay to listen... but, yes. - THIS. is how it's done. ( : Excellent on you.

THANK YOU!!..

Lovely performance and sound. I have now decided to play this piece for the next ensemble competition. Please let me know if CARION ever decides to come to Japan!

thank you!!

Merci de mettre ainsi en valeur des instruments de l'orchestre très rarement connus et, donc, souvent ignorés : hautbois, cor anglais, basson, contrebasson (bois à anche double) et cor d'harmonie (cuivre)...

Nice moves!

bravi nell armonia e dinamiche,bel suono di gruppo

This piece is so lovely and it is amazingly done

Certainly didn’t expect the English Horn. What a treat.

Great story .

Nice work ! really enjoy seeing and hearing your performance. Better than having the score in front of you.

This music is otherworldly and the musicians are wonderful actors. Bravo! How do you remember all of that; is the movement spontaneous?

Bravissimi!

amazing production, please don't stop! Francaix, Ligeti, Hindemith....

I thought Nielsen wrote only two operas - Fabulous!

My god that third movement was good

Tocant de memòria i posta en escena mot bonica. Perfecte !! El local te pot ser massa ressonància.

Virtuosic.

Amazing; I've watched (or rather listened) to a few of these now, and as an oboe player, I've been intrigued by the many keys I see on the oboe that are not on mine. The entirety of the top joint looks the same, however the bottom joint has a few keys that I don't recognize, particularly the second bell key. May I ask what these are and their purpose?

Simply wonderful! The players are all great, and the staging emphasizes how chamber musicians communicate while playing. Does anyone remember the Beaux Arts trio?

Cool

Such an engaging performance. You also picked a beautiful room at the Glyptothek.

Not to undermine the uniqueness of this beautiful piece, but right at the beginning, the first thing that came to my mind was Papageno.

That horn player has such dynamite control

❤

Is there a history behind you guys calling yourselves "woodwind quintet" instead of "wind quintet" given the horn? Congratulations on the performance, loved it.

Are we seeing a real time performance...or a pre-record? It's a stunning performance either way.

You all sound great! Have you considered performing Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik?

The first 8 measures of the song played by the bassoon is my audition music for youth ochestra. This sounds above my playing level so I’m really excited and scared to play it.

Dear Carion Quintet, this is a great and perfect performance of my favorite wind quintet. However allow me one question. Why does Eglis does not Play the last 2 bars in the adagio bevore the theme with variations starts? I understand the low c in ppp is critical. But in your "league" I cannot imagine this matters. Doing a recording you could make several takes so there is no risk. Apart from this I really like the performance. The "choreography" gives also some insight in the music's structure. Great!

directed by David Lynch

How many takes :')

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21:03 variation VII