Classical Music CDs at ArkivMusic Cart Wish List My Account Gift Certificates Newsletter Help
Composers | Conductors | Performers | Ensembles | Operas | Labels | ArkivCDs | DVDs | Search | More... New ArkivMusic Reissues On Sale
New Releases Recommendations Top Sellers On Sale CDs Under $10 Broadway Reissues Super Audio CDs MP3s Blu-ray Discs Listen Magazine
 Home >
WGBH Radio WGBH Radio theclassicalstation.org
Welcome to ArkivMusic, the retail store for classical.net!
 Nielsen: String Quartets Vol 2 / The Young Danish String Quartet
Release Date: 05/27/2008 
Label:  Dacapo   Catalog #: 6220522   Spars Code: n/a 
Composer:  Carl Nielsen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Young Danish String Quartet

Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Multi 
Length: 1 Hours 4 Mins. 

CD  $15.99
Add To Your Cart
In Stock

Add To Your Cart
In Stock: Usually ships in 24 hours.
Notes & Reviews   Works on This Recording  
 Notes & Reviews Back to Top 
As with Volume 1 in this series, these are excellent performances. The works themselves are early, but Nielsen's energy and formal confidence are strikingly refreshing, even if the melodic style isn't as distinctive as it would become later. The first movement of the F minor quartet does feature some remarkable chromatic harmony, though, while the E-flat major quartet of 1898 reveals the composer of the First Symphony well on his way to the Second. It's a splendid work that deserves to be much better known.

The Young Danish Quartet, as the name suggests, brings a youthful enthusiasm to the music that's very compelling. Occasionally, in the outer movements of both works, they bear down a bit too hard on their instruments resulting in some percussive sound effects, but this isn't a major problem--and better more excitement rather than less. Certainly they sustain the slow movements with impressive intensity, and they find perfect tempos for the E-flat quartet's Allegretto Pastorale third movement (with its Presto trio). Vivid sonics in both SACD and normal stereo add to the impact of the performances. Strongly recommended!

--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

 Works on This Recording Back to Top 
1.  Quartet for Strings no 2 in F minor, FS 11/Op. 5 by Carl Nielsen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Young Danish String Quartet
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1890; Denmark 
2.  Quartet for Strings no 3 in E flat major, FS 23/Op. 14 by Carl Nielsen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Young Danish String Quartet
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1897-1898; Denmark 
 About ArkivMusic  Contact Us  Partner Program  Institutional Sales  Terms & Conditions  Privacy Policy  Help  Your Account  Shortcuts  
ArkivMusic - The Source for Classical Music!

Copyright ArkivMusic LLC, 2010.
Data supplied by Muze, Inc. Copyright 1948-2010. For personal use only. All rights reserved. Muze logo
Reviews provided by ClassicsToday.com Copyright 1999-2004