Mogensen/Hvidtfelt Nielsen - Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen: Ophelia Dances

The idea of building great music from modest or fragmentary means has characterized the work of Nordic composers for generations. In Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen�s (b. 1958) music, that idea finds a particularly exquisite and absolutely contemporary expression. In Toccata the music glances towards a filmic chase-down, whereas Nielsen in Ophelia Dances claims to �hear the dancing� of that fragile character from Shakespeare�s Hamlet. The album concludes with Nielsen�s single-movement symphony, Symphony No. 3, which sets in motion a cumulative journey upwards from low to high: a symphonic Tower of Babel, reaching for the heavens.