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Postcard from Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition

10 July 2023

2 Kleio Quartet photo Agnete Schlichtkrull

The third edition of the the competition was a reminder of just how wondrous Nielsen’s string quartets are, says Andrew Mellor

Copenhagen is even more nuts about Carl Nielsen than usual right now. Four days after the third Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition ended on 16 April, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra launched a six-concert festival of the composer’s music conducted by Fabio Luisi, its Italian chief whose unlikely love affair with Nielsen has taken even him by surprise…

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