David A. Rich, Ph.D.

In my last installment, I looked at the best recordings on LP and CD of Nielsen symphonies from the start of stereo issues (1963) to the...

Carl Nielsen is the only composer of the first rank that remains almost totally unknown. There are six symphonies at the center of Nielsen’s art although he wrote in all forms. Most critics and musicologists agree his orchestral music ranks with the great symphonists of the 20th century like Mahler, Shostakovich, Sibelius, and Vaughan Williams.