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Nielsen: Aladdin Suite; Pan and Syrinx; other orchestral works.(Sound Recording Review)
Nielsen: Aladdin Suite; Pan and Syrinx; other orchestral works. Niklas Witten, South Jutland Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.557164.
One is not apt to think much beyond Danish composer Carl Nielsen's symphonies when considering the man's output, and it hasn't helped that his shorter orchestral works are so seldom recorded. I recall an old EMI Greensleeve LP with Herbert Blomstedt that I used to own, and I believe there is currently a DG recording with Jarvi; but it isn't much, so this budget-priced Naxos disc fills a much-needed hole in repertory.
There are six separate selections on the album, all of them essentially brief tone poems. Things begin with the Aladdin Suite, seven selections the composer took from his incidental theater music. Don't expect anything so remarkable as Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, but do expect to be entertained by some lavish orchestrations, several inventive dances, and one unique composition, "The Marketplace in Ispahan," in which the composer tries to imitate the varied sounds of a bazaar coming from all directions. I couldn't help wondering while I was listening to it how it might be ...
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