Carl Nielsen: Works for 4 Hand Piano “Espansiva” (World Premiere Recording)

Kristoffer Hyldig, Rikke Sandberg

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We hope that you will enjoy this World Premiere Recording of Carl Nielsen’s own 4 Handed Piano Arrangement of Espansiva. His orchestral works brought brilliantly to life through the musicianship and scholarship of Rikke Sandberg and Kristoffer Hyldig.

When Danish composer Carl Nielsen finished his Third Symphony, he spoke of the first movement as “a gust of energy and life-affirmation blown out into the wide world,” and called the finale of his Third Symphony “a hymn to work and the healthy activity of everyday life,” truly a sense of optimism all-too-rare for us denizens of the 21st century!

So, why a four-hand arrangement of an orchestral score you ask? In the days before mechanical recordings, four hand arrangements were both a delightful social activity and an invaluable means of making large-scale works available to gifted amateurs who might not otherwise have opportunity to hear them in concert as well as promote them to conductors and concert programmers. As pianist Rikke Sandberg and Nielsen scholar Niels Bo Foltmann describe in the booklet notes, the discovery of the manuscript of Nielsen’s OWN arrangement “Sinfonia Espansiva” was itself a tale of luck and diligent librarianship.


Rikke Sandberg, Piano
Kristoffer Hyldig, Piano


Review from Classical Source

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
Saul & David: Prelude to the Fourth Act Allegro burrascoso
03:20
2.
Saul & David: Battle Music with the Curtain Down Allegro violente
04:03
3.
Symphony No. 3 Op. 27 (Sinfonia Espansiva): I. Allegro espansivo
11:31
4.
Symphony No. 3 Op. 27 (Sinfonia Espansiva): II. Andante pastorale
08:43
5.
Symphony No. 3 Op. 27 (Sinfonia Espansiva): III. Poco allegretto
06:27
6.
Symphony No. 3 Op. 27 (Sinfonia Espansiva): IV. Finale - Allegro
09:10
7.
Hojby Riffle Club March (Højby Skyttemarch)
02:28

Total time: 00:45:42

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