Norwegian Wood ( wind ) But it's Danish !

The next one up of the vintage BBC Music magazine cover disks from about six years ago. A worthwhile coupling of music from Nielson, the Clarinet Concerto and Symphony no 4 ( The Inextinguishable ) The performers are the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Tadaaki Otaka conducts the concerto, soloist Robert Plane, and the symphony is conducted by Petri Sakari. I have another performance of The Inextinguishable as part of the complete symphonies on two double cd's by the San Francisco Symphony and Herbert Blomstedt, so will talk about it more when they roll around. This is the only recording I have of the Clarinet Concerto however. A late work by Nielson, it is very sparsely scored and although maybe not immediately attention grabbing, it repays close listening and is considered one of, if not the, major clarinet concertos since Mozart. As a totally off the wall observation, what do we thing of hairstyles ? All the photgraphs I've seen of Nielson show a surprisingly modern looking spikey cut for a guy whose youth was at the back end of the 19th century ! Symbolic of the forward thinking of his music maybe ?