3/5. Conflict. Nielsen completed his Fourth Symphony in 1914, and saw it as reflecting the life-force "transformed by its struggle to survive all obstacles thrown against it". Donaid Macleod looks at a selection of Nielsen's works written during this period of domestic and political crisis.
Now Leaps the Spring from Its Bed
Peder Severin (tenor), Dorte Kirkeskov (piano) Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , conductor Simon Rattle
Suite: Den Luciferiske , Op 45 (excerpt) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Pan and Syrinx, Op 49
Beethoven Academy, conductor Jan Caeyers Repeated from Wednesday