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Nielsen: Symphony No. 2
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Artist
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Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
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Studio
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VAI Audio
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Format
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DVD Full screen
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DVD Encoding
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MPAA Rating
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Not Rated
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UPC
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089948443797
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Runtime/Release Date
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45 mins/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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25375
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Description
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Stokowski was 85 when he conducted his first and only performance of Carl Nielsen's Second Symphony for Danish television in Copenhagen. He had previously led the Sixth Symphony ("Sinfonia semplice") in London, and this was part of a 1967 summer tour. In a bonus interview, Stokowski calls Nielsen "one of the great composers of the world." "Without baton, Stokowski opens the first movement … with that rich, Stokowski sound: strings left and right; winds, brass, and tympani mounted on tiers directly in front of him. Stokowski turns the score as he leads with the right hand, barely invoking the left except to sculpt some huge, melodic arch or to complement the cues he gives with his eyes and curt nods. Six bass fiddles invoke a period that embraces the French horns, brass, and tympani. Sudden dynamic shifts, sforzati, metric asymmetries, stretti—all proceed under sublime control by a master of his craft."—Audiophile Audition
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