Christopher Hogwood, Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Niels Gade: Symphonies, Vol. 4 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 58:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN10026 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 58:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN10026 | Recorded: 2001
If not the most adventurous of composers, and in his later years over-conservative, Gade in his youth certainly had his moments. his inventiveness is evident in all four symphonies presented here, albeit in very different ways. The Sixth (1856-7) is perhaps the most perfect, Classical in design although with a minatory feel suggestive at times of middle-period Haydn. If it stays within its own clearly defined harmonic and stylistic limits, the First, Third and Fifth do not.