Digital Concerts: Nielsen

Carl Nielsen began work on his last symphony in the summer of 1924, at the north Danish seaside resort of Skagen. It was, he announced, to have ‘a different character than my others: more charming, smooth’. There would be something of the delightful conversational character of the recent Wind Quintet: ‘I think through the instruments – as though I had crept inside them.’ The symphony would have a title, Sinfonia semplice (‘Simple Symphony’), refl...