Nielsen: Flute Concerto - Clarinet Concerto - Aladdin Suite Philharmonia Orchestra & Paavo Järvi

• Carl Nielsen (1865-1931): Flute Concerto, FS 119, CNW 42:
• 1 I. Allegro moderato 11:11
• 2 II. Allegretto 07:23
• 3 III. Adagio ma non troppo 08:21
• Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57, FS 129, CNW 43:
• 4 Allegretto un poco - 05:05
• 5 Poco adagio - 06:52
• 6 Allegro non troppo - Adagio - Allegro vivace 03:52
• Aladdin Suite, Op. 34, FS 89:
• 7 I. Oriental Festival March 02:46
• 8 II. Aladdin's Dream and Dance of the Morning Mist 02:54
• 9 III. Hindu Dance 03:08
• 10 IV. Chinese Dance 03:14
• 11 V. The Market Place in Ispahan 04:52
• 12 VI. Prisoners' Dance 05:09
• 13 VII. Negro Dance 04:32
• Total Runtime 01:09:19

Info for Nielsen: Flute Concerto - Clarinet Concerto - Aladdin Suite

After completing a quintet for wind instruments in 1922 that would become one of his most celebrated works, Carl Nielsen hit upon the ideas of writing a full orchestral concerto for each of the instruments included in that quintet. Nielsen certainly unlocked something in those five individual instruments that few composers had before him o rindeed would after. "Now I think on the basis of instruments themselves...in a way I creep into them" he wrote around the time of the quintet; "it can surely be said that instruments have a soul". The two concertos of the planned five that did materialize - for flute and clarinet - certainly echo those sentiments. The Philharmonia Orchestra is one fo the world's great orchestras. Widely acknowledged for its pioneering approach to the role of an orchestra in the 21st century, the Philharmonia leads the field for the quality of its playing and its innovative work with residencies, music education, audience development and the use of new technology to reach a global audience.

Samuel Coles, flute
Mark van de Wiel, clarinet
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paavo Järvi, conductor

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