04. - 07. Carl Nielsen - Violin Concerto, op.33 [36'36]
Vilde Frang- violin, Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eivind Gullberg Jensen
EMI 6025702 (recorded August 2011; CD issued 2012)
(CD rip; flacs, booklet, cover * inlay scans)
Recording venue: DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen
Recording engineer: Jan Oldrup; Producer: Jorn Pedersen
This superb recording has been available for some time from the usual internet download sites but the links all appear to be dead. As it was selected by Andrew Mellor as his top choice for the Nielsen concerto in Gramophone magazine's Collection feature in the May 2019 issue, I thought it worthwhile to post again. It's not my rip; many thanks to the original provider. I have added a digital download for the booklet - although this purports that the recording is by Warner Classics.
Unusually, I find myself in total agreement with Gramophone Collection's conclusions. (How on earth they could have published a survey by David Fanning of recordings of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony in their February 2019 issue without even mentioning Sakari Oramo's recording for BIS is quite beyond me.). On first hearing I wasn't sure about this performance but now I find it impossible to choose between the Frang/Jensen and the equally fine Cecilia Zilliacus/Blendulf on dB Productions, recorded in 2014, for the Nielsen concerto. I guess that the coupling might make the choice easier - the over-popular Tchaikovsky concerto for Frang and a selection of Nielsen's music for solo violin for Zilliacus. Zilliacus was Andrew Mellor's runner up.
Frang is ably supported by the Danish orchestra and conductor Jensen in both the Nielsen and the equally fine performance of the Tchaikovsky concerto.
Download from MEGA.