Rotterdam Filharmonikerne - Nielsens 4.: Det Uudslukkelige

‘Music is life,’ Nielsen wrote, ‘and, like life, inextinguishable.’ That irrepressible vitality comes to the fore in his Clarinet Concerto and especially in his Mahlerian Fourth Symphony. The music features a duel between two sets of timpani, growing stronger as a result and building to a glorious, radiant climax. Opening this concert is the world première of a new orchestral work by Willem Jeths, whom the NRC describes as ‘the Mahler of this century’.

Thomas Søndergård - conductor
Martin Fröst - clarinet

Willem Jeths - New work (world première)
Carl Nielsen - Clarinet Concerto
Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 4 ‘The Inextinguishable’

Photo: Mats Backer