from 'the garden of Denmark' Nielsen's music: vast and incomprehensibly un-Danish in scope, yet only understandable in its utterly Danish - or maybe even utterly Fiinen - context
(Nielsen catalogue in Odense Music Library)
In March, the new Carl Nielsen Concert Hall and Museum opened in Odense, on the small island of Fyn - Nielsen's birthplace. With scholars, archivists and guides,
Michael Oliver tours the museum and unearths a different Nielsen, the man of the soil, steeped in folk-traditions and a love of the elements.
Reader ANTHONY JACKSON Producer ANDREW KUROWSKI