Wunderschöne und spannende Interpretation dieser einzigartig konstruierten doch perfekt komponierten Sinfonie mit farbenreichen und perfekt vereinigten Tönen aller Instrumente. Der letzte Satz klingt besonders spannend und echt begeisternd. Der erfahrene und intelligente Maestro dirigiert das hoch funktionelle Orchester in verschiedenen Tempi und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Wunderbar und atemberaubend zugleich!
RCA nicely captured the Chicago Symphony Center ambiance from a mid-hall perspective. Other than slightly hard string tone, the instruments sound quite natural. Gould misses the sheer grit than Schmidt found in his London SO recording but still offers plenty of clarity and balance.
Thanks for your comment Martin - and pointing out the video of Nielsen's 4th. I did this video at the same time as the Clarinet Concerto which I posted a month or so ago (though it was blocked here and can be seen on Google Drive). Otherwise I would have probably done the Second from the Unicorn set. But this Chicago recording is well worth a listen!
@@ClassicsAndVinyl I've the BIS cd, with the Gottenburg/Chung and Kang on violin. In theory it should be available on LP as it was a 1987 release. I wonder.
@@chrisguygeezer Looking on Discogs I can only find listings for a couple of CD issues of the BIS Violin concerto recording. One with the 5th Symphony, the other a reissue with the Flute and Clarinet concertos. Its seems the Violin concerto was never on LP.
This is so beautiful,I've never listened to it before!! In fact,I have just one Lp with music Nielsen in my collection,and it is the symphony n.4 "The Inextinguishable",in the mavellous interpretation of Karajan! But this n.2 it's at the same level of beauty,and the orchestration is also extraordinary. I saw that you posted another very interesting video,with Robert Simpson discussing this very symphony...and now I absolutely need to watch it,too,after falling in love with Nielsen's Second!! Thank you once more for the precious post,and for being my music educator (I am perhaps slightly above the average age of music students,being 56...but,as they say,better late than never!!)☺
Bob has also posted the excellent Nielsen 4th recording from this Schmidt-London SO box set: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-na99OQQAC_o.html
Thank you Sergio! Nielsen's music is tremendous isn't it? And you're never too old to discover new music - I'm over 10 years older than you and still in awe of the amount of music I don't yet know!
@@1mctous Thank you dear Martin,I clicked on the link you posted for me, and I listened to the whole 4th symphony conducted by Ole Schmidt! It's a wonderful rendition indeed,for certain aspects better than the one I have (Karajan,Berliner 1981). Schmidt is more vital and has more drive and passion,Karajan is very focused on instrumental details,which are (quite obviously) wonderful and enjoyable. But I am starting to find the earliest Deutsche Gramophon digital recordings a bit "cold", very analytical and precise,but lacking some warmth...at least,this is my impression!!
@@ClassicsAndVinyl That's true!! I think we both are young men in mind and spirit,we are still searching and discovering,and that's what keep us vital and young!! Thank you once again for letting me discover Nielsen,I just listened to another great post of yours,the 4th conducted by Schmidt (which I didn't know!),and it's almost better than Karajan's!!!
@@sergiociomei1197 Young in mind if not body! LOL! Other good versions of the 4th to look out for are Jean Martinon's - also with the Chicago Symphony (RCA), and Herbert Blomstedt's San Francisco recording (Decca). Karajan's recording comes joint bottom of my own list along with Bernstein. ;o)
Nielsen, first class music by a first class composer, I love his clarinet concerto, this 2nd, the 4th and the 6ths. Like Sibelius in his maturity, Nielsen managed his expresive music language for not to be out of time. From the technical side, there are not enough words to properly curse RCA for the introduction of the Dynagroove system. Saying so, it looks that british pressing sound better than american Dynagrooves that are atrocious, specially if someone doesn´t have a spherical (or conical) stylus. The sound of your system is much better than one can expect on a Dynagroove.
I love Carl Nielsen's music! And yes Dynagroove :o( I read (somewhere) that some British pressings were not actually cut with Dynagroove because the cutting engineers thought it was dreadful. Though of course the album covers still proclaimed it to be Dynagroove. Some of these pressings were for American distribution, but how many I have no idea.
@@chrisguygeezer Yes, I know that Decca and RCA had an agreement on pressing facilities. This page has everything you need to know about Dynagroove! classicalmusicreferences.com/home/classical-music-record-sets/rca-records-dynagroove-process/
