Royal Academy of Music Soloist Ensemble - Nielsen Symphony No. 6 & Commotio (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Marking the 100th anniversary of Carl Nielsen’s Sixth – and last – Symphony, conductor Ryan Wigglesworth joins Royal Academy of Music’s outstanding young musicians to revisit the composer’s later period. This recording showcases two works by Nielsen in two spellbinding arrangements by fellow-Dane Hans Abrahamsen. The No 6 ‘Sinfonia semplice’, written during a period of declining health, is viewed by some as a strongly ironic work. However, its lightness is also deeply sincere. With its crystalline weightlessness, Abrahamsen’s chamber arrangement reclaims both the quizzical spirit and sense of fragility in the original. Commotio was Nielsen’s last major work, and modelled after the organ music of such composers as Buxtehude and J. S. Bach. Abrahamsen’s arrangement untangles its dense texture and harks back to Baroque instrumentation and sonorities. The result is a sound-world that defies chronology – a conversation across centuries.

TRACKLIST

1. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice" (Arr. for Small Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): I. Tempo giusto
2. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice" (Arr. for Small Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): II. Humoreske. Allegretto
3. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice" (Arr. for Small Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): III. Proposta seria. Adagio
4. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice" (Arr. for Small Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): IV. Tema con variazioni
5. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Commotio, Op. 58 (Arr. for Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): I. Adagio
6. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Commotio, Op. 58 (Arr. for Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): II. Andantino quasi allegretto
7. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Commotio, Op. 58 (Arr. for Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): III. Andante sostenuto
8. Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble & Ryan Wigglesworth - Nielsen: Commotio, Op. 58 (Arr. for Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen): IV. Crotchet = 80



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