LPO/Vänskä – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonNearly 90 years on, Nielsen's Sixth and last symphony, the misleadingly subtitled Sinfonia Semplice, continues to tease. A downright peculiar piece, it has a hauntingly mischievous quality that stays in the mind. Its first and third movements, earnestly cerebral in the busy opening, weightily eloquent in the Adagio, may seem to be from a musical place you recognise. But the second and fourth movements cock a snook at expectation. The brief Humoreske is one of the most ...

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