Very impressed with Saraste's Nielsen 4th and 5th. The author of the liner
notes considers Nielsen's music to be *elemental* in nature, and the tunes
do remind me of Bruckner, esp. the big descending melody in 1st mov't of
4th.
I assume elemental means forceful and unencumbered. While I find Nielsen's
tunes of this sort satisfying, is there anyone who thinks that *some* of
Bruckner's elemental big tunes border on the banal? esp. in the 3rd and
6th symphonies?
What do the Twin Hemispheric Protectors of Mahlerian and Brucknerian Good
Taste think?
John Smyth