I haven't done many classic music super audio cd round ups as the numbers of titles issued of interest every quarter is small as only a handful of labels issue recordings and some of those that do like Chandos don't issue every title in that form although they play on both regular and Super audio cd players.
This cd in their Nielsen cycle, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra are joined by the flautist Adam Walker in a program that combines the Flute Concerto, the Third Symphony, and the tone poem Pan and Syrinx.
It was an Easter present.
Work began on the Third Symphony in 1910, some seven years after he had completed his second symphony 'The Four Temperaments', and the work was premiered in Copenhagen in 1912. In his album note, Paul Griffiths describes the work's eventual title, 'Sinfonia espansiva' as a fifth temperament - Joviality. In the second movement, uniquely in his symphonic output, Nielsen calls for (wordless) voices - solo soprano and baritone.
This was also the first of his symphonies to be commercially released on record.
Composed in 1926, the Flute Concerto is a late work, and demonstrates Nielsen's stylistic evolution towards the new modernism.
The soloist engages in repeated interactions with other instruments within the orchestra, most notably the clarinet and the bass trombone. Pan and Syrinx dates from 1918, and is based on the ancient legend which tells how the amorous god Pan invented the pan flute whilst pursuing the nymph Syrinx
This is a most useful addition to my small amount of Nielsen works on super audio cd.
This interesting compilation of less popular items by Tchaikovsky performed by the BBC Scottish Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan came out in 2023 which is useful although I have a good number of discs of Tchaikovsky's orchestral compositions.
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