From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
… The contrast flows back and forth, almost to the point of incoherence. It takes a truly great composer to throw up his hands and say, I don’t know. Hope flickers to deceive. There is no definitive resolution to Nielsen’s fifth symphony. Each performance differs from the last….
Read on here.
And in The Critic.
En francais ici.
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