SVEND NIELSEN
Works for Sinfonietta
Elgar Howarth

Svend Nielsen, composer

About
Svend Nielsen is a thoroughly lyrical composer. In recent years dramatic undercurrents of expression have surfaced in his music. However, Nielsen's compositions remain essentially impressionistic, characterized as they are by lucid scoring and a refined sense of structure.

Reviews
"The orchestra plays with great refinement and total sensivity" (Fanfare)

"The sensitive performance by the Aarhus Sinfonietta under Elgar Howarth is impeccable throughout, with a keen sense of the weight and importance of each line. This is understated, enigmatic music which greatly repays close, careful listening" ***** BBC Music Magazine

Credits
Recorded at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Århus, on 15, 19 and 20 April 1997

Sound producer: Jesper Jørgensen
Executive producer: Svend Nielsen
Recording engineer: Claus Byrith
Digital editing: Jesper Jørgensen
Publishers: Edition Samfundet

Cover picture: Ulla Becker: "Carillons" (1997)

Recording kindly sponsored by KODA’s Collective Blank Tape Remuneration, Danish Composers’ Society / KODA’s Funds for Social and Cultural Purposes, Augustinus Fonden and Dansk Musiker Forbund DMF

This recording is made in cooperation with the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Århus