Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Kansas City Symphony, March 2023 Join Michael Stern and Dan Margolies for a varied program that celebrates Danish master composer, Carl Nielsen. We'll hear his ...

After 16 years in the second violin section of the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1889 when he also composed his first two symphonies, in 1905 Danish composer Carl Nielsen gave up his orchestral position ...

The Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia expansiva," from 1911 by Danish composer Carl Nielsen that he described as a tribute to human activities here on Earth and to humanity’s infinite potential, is today’s ...

Before launching into Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 2 later in the hour, we hear a pair of preludes Nielsen wrote for the theater. Sir Oluf He Rides premiered in 1906. Tamas Veto and the Aalborg ...

At age 24 in 1889 Carl Nielsen began his 16-year position in the second violin section of the Royal Danish Orchestra. Five years later he performed in the orchestra for the premiere of his own First ...