In honor of all the American players plying their trade in Denmark, here's a short piece by Denmark's best known composer and a personal favorite of mine, Carl Nielsen:
Showing posts with label Classical Music. Show all posts
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Classical Music and American Soccer
An Aarhus (Benny Feilhaber and Jerry White represent!) Orchestra conducted by Lance Friedel:
http://www.msrcd.com/1150/1150.html
I only listened to "An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands" (as an MP3 purchased from Amazon). It's okay. I also intend to buy at least the Helios Overture. Nielsen is a similar composer to Sibelius (late Romantic with ever so small 20th Century influences whose music is close to that North European nature), but not quite in the same league probably. I do enjoy Nielsen's use of percussion.
Update: I now also have "Helios" and "Saga-Dream." I really like "Helios."
http://www.msrcd.com/1150/1150.html
I only listened to "An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands" (as an MP3 purchased from Amazon). It's okay. I also intend to buy at least the Helios Overture. Nielsen is a similar composer to Sibelius (late Romantic with ever so small 20th Century influences whose music is close to that North European nature), but not quite in the same league probably. I do enjoy Nielsen's use of percussion.
Update: I now also have "Helios" and "Saga-Dream." I really like "Helios."
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