Leif Ove Andsnes - Nielsen: Piano Pieces

1. Chaconne, for piano, Op 32/FS 79
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

2. Den Luciferiske, suite for piano, Op 45/FS 91/1-6, complete
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

3. Pieces (3) for piano, Op 59/FS 131 Impromptu
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

4. Pieces (3) for piano, Op 59/FS 131 Adagio
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

5. Pieces (3) for piano, Op 59/FS 131 Allegro non troppo
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

6. Pieces (5), for piano, Op. 3/FS 10 Folketone
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

7. Pieces (5), for piano, Op. 3/FS 10 Humoreske
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

8. Pieces (5), for piano, Op. 3/FS 10 Arabeske
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

9. Pieces (5), for piano, Op. 3/FS 10 Mignon
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

10. Pieces (5), for piano, Op. 3/FS 10 Alfedans
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

11. Humoresque-bagatelles (6), for piano, Op 11/FS 22
Composed by Carl Nielsen
with Leif Ove Andsnes

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Leif Ove Andsnes - Nielsen: Piano Pieces Carl Nielsen , and Leif Ove Andsnes Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nielsen | Nielsen, Carl | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Bagatelles | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chaconnes | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Andsnes, Leif Ove | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002SQJ Release Date: 1996-07-16

Tracks:

1. Chaconne
2. I. Allegretto un Pochettino
3. II. Poco Moderato
4. III. Molto Adagio E Patetico
5. IV. Allegretto Innocente
6. V. Allegretto Vivo
7. VI. Allegro Non Troppo Ma Vigoroso
8. Impromptu: Allegro Fluento
9. Adagio
10. Allegro Non Troppo
11. Folk Melody (Andante)
12. Humoresque (Allegretto Giocoso)
13. Arabesque (Moderato)
14. Mignon (Moderato)
15. Elf Dance (Tempo Di Valse)
16. No.1: Good Morning! Good Morning!
17. No.2: Spinning Top
18. No.3: A Little Slow Waltz
19. No.4: Jumping Jack
20. No.5: Doll's March
21. No.6: Musical Clock

Average customer rating: Musical jewels are waiting for you! For wind lovers...

Nielsen: Wind Chamber Music Manufacturer: Bis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Nielsen | Nielsen, Carl | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Clarinet | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Nielsen: Quartet, Op. 14 & Quartet, Op. 44 (String Quartets, Vol. 1) Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.2 Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nielsen: Symphonies 3 & 5 Nielsen: Aladdin Suite; Pan and Syrinx; Saga Deam; Maskarade Overture; Helios Overture ASIN: B0000016F2 Release Date: 1994-09-26

Tracks:

1. Fantasisitykke - Andante Cantabile - Leif Ove Andsnes
2. Romanze. Andante Con Duolo - Leif Ove Andsnes
3. Humoresque. Allegretto Scherzando - Leif Ove Andsnes
4. Canto Serioso. Andante Sostenuto - Leif Ove Andsnes
5. Serenata. Allegro Non Troppo Ma Brioso - Lars Kristian Holm Brynildsen
6. No. 2: Taagen Letter (The Fog Is Lifting) - Lars Anders Tomter
7. No. 12: Bornene Leger (The Children Are Playing). Allegretto - Lars Anders Tomter
8. No. 15: To Og Hab Spiller (Faith And Hope Are Playing). Allegro Marciale - Lars Anders Tomter
9. I. Allegro Ben Moderato - The Bergen Wind Quintet
10. II. Menuet - The Bergen Wind Quintet
11. III. Praeludium 1. Praeludium. Adagio 2. Tema. Un Poco Andantino 3.I 4.II 5.III Meno Mosso 6.IV Piu Vivo 7.V Tempo Giusto 8.VI Andantino Con Moto 9.VII Un Poco Di Piu 10.VIII Poco Meno 11.IX Tempo Giusto 12.X 13.XI Tempo Di Marcia 14. Andantino Festivo - The Bergen Wind Quintet
12. Allegretto - Gro Sandvik

Customer Reviews:

Musical jewels are waiting for you!.......2007-05-12

It results absolutely understandable how Nielsen's chamber genre, doesn't enjoy of major knowledge and esteem by part of the great audiences.

The set of Wind Quintets shows us a composer in absolute plenitude of overwhelming inspiration, owner of a domain of the thematic material apart of a remarkable creative vein.

If you love and admire to Nielsen the creator of notable orchestral compositions, you should take into account around this reduced genre of wind pieces, due they contain an important feature of that vertiginous musician. .

For wind lovers..........2007-01-10

This is a wonderful collection of Nielsen's wind compositions. A must for wind lovers.

Average customer rating: Excellent interpratation and performance Andsnes brings fine piano music out of undeserved neglect

Nielsen: Piano Pieces Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nielsen | Nielsen, Carl | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Bagatelles | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chaconnes | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Andsnes, Leif Ove | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005UV9C Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

1. Chaconne FS79, Op.32
2. I. Allegreto Un Pochettino
3. II. Poco Moderato
4. III. Molto Adagio E Patetico
5. IV. Allegretto Innocente
6. V. Allegretto Vivo
7. VI. Allegro Non Troppo Ma Vigoroso
8. Impromptu: Allegro Fluento
9. Adagio
10. Allegro Non Troppo
11. Folk Melody (Andante)
12. Humoresque (Allegretto Giocoso)
13. Arabesque (Moderato)
14. Mignon (Moderato)
15. Elf Dance (Tempo Di Valse)
16. Good Morning! Good Morning!
17. No.2 Spinning Top
18. No.3 A Little Slow Waltz
19. No.4 Jumping Jack
20. No.5 Doll's March
21. No.6 Musical Clock

Customer Reviews:

Excellent interpratation and performance.......2006-04-07

It's great to hear these piano works by Nielsen which have generally been neglected. Andsnes plays with his usual control, color, tone quality, sense of direction, excitement, expression. Not only is it good to hear this repertoire, but to hear it played really well. Kudos to Andsnes.

Andsnes brings fine piano music out of undeserved neglect.......2003-12-22

The Danish composer Carl Nielsen is of course well-known for his six symphonies, and to a lesser extent his string quartets and concertos. His piano music has tended to travel less well, with no major performers taking it up extensively, at least until this recording by the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. The disc contains two early works and three mature ones, and offers a usefully varied selection of Nielsen's output for piano.

The Chaconne was written in 1916, directly after the Fourth Symphony, and continues the mood of that work. Inspired by Bach's famous violin chaconne, it starts with a blocky, rather conventionally unpianistic theme in the left hand before basing a series of twenty variations upon that theme. It is contrapuntally dense, increasingly so as the work goes on, until the texture clears in the closing pages. This is definitely not sensual music, but it is dramatic and expressive nonetheless--the composer and scholar Robert Simpson feels that late Beethoven is the model for the work, and I can see his point.

Probably the finest of Nielsen's piano works is the six-movement Suite, written at the end of the 1910s, as the composer was starting work on the dramatic Fifth Symphony. The first movement is cold and icy, the second more delicate, but the heart of the work is in the third and sixth movements. The third is a slow movement of sustained intensity, before the tension relaxes in two lighter movements. The finale is an explosion of energy unparalleled in the rest of the work, torrents of notes and dramatic writing surging all the way to the end.

The Three Piano Pieces were written in 1928 and are one of the composer's last works. They're also one of his most radical works, coming close to atonality at times. The first piece is all watery shimmering colours; the second a dramatic slow movement and the finale--as with the Suite--is an explosive, dramatic burst of energy.

The other two works are early and less interesting. The Five Piano Pieces and Humoresque-Bagatelles are comparatively conventional, though some of the harmonies hint at the composer Nielsen was to become. It is perhaps a pity they had not been dropped in favour of the Theme and Variations, the one major Nielsen piano work not included here. Nonetheless, this is a disc eminently recommendable to Nielsen fans as Andsnes' performances are generally excellent, even if I sense a slight tendency towards rushing in the Chaconne.

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