Don Satz, also standing up for Nielsen, suggested:

>Some new releases of interest:
>
>a.  Nielsen's string quartets nos. 3 & 4 performed by the Oslo Quartet on
>Naxos.  Their previous installment was very good, and the price can't be
>beat.

You are an unusual guy.  Usually people don't get caught up with Nielsen
by listening first to his quartets or the 6th Symphony.  Usually they hear
Symphony 1-5 and nearly faint from the ecstasy of realizing that one in
their own century was a true musical genius of the Bach, Beethoven, eh!
Brahms --wait!  "the German Requiem-- remove "eh!" just plain Brahms
variety.

But if you say so.  I'm going out at lunchtime to buy them quartets.

Andrew E. Carlan <[log in to unmask]>
Standing Up For Nielsen