Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen – Ophelia Dances (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The idea of building great music from modest or fragmentary means has characterized the work of Nordic composers for generations. In Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen’s music, that idea finds a particularly exquisite and absolutely contemporary expression. In Toccata the music glances towards a filmic chase-down, whereas Nielsen in Ophelia Dances claims to ‘hear the dancing’ of that fragile character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The album concludes with Nielsen’s single-movement symphony, Symphony No. 3, which sets in motion a cumulative journey upwards from low to high: a symphonic Tower of Babel, reaching for the heavens.

Tracklist:
1. Toccata 19:13
2. Ophelia Dances 22:08
3. Symphony No. 3 “Watching Life” 23:33

Personnel:
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen (organ)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
Bjarke Mogensen (accordion)

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