Today, the Kleio Quartet perform Nielsen’s first String Quartet and pianist Alim Beisembayev plays Ravel’s tender homage to Schubert, the Noble and Sentimental Waltzes. Schubert himself ...
The Danish soil and character (though not so much its folk music) pervades all Carl Nielsen's work; there’s an attractive, unsentimental directness about it and, though it has its bleak moments, a ...