Virtuoso Voices™ - Herbert Blomstedt (Inside Job)  0:26
January 2010 CD 


[Use this clip to introduce almost any recording of Herbert Blomstedt conducting Carl Nielsen, including Alladin (Decca 425 827), the Helios Overture and the Concertos (EMI 81503); the Symphonies: Nos. 3 and 4 (EMI 00829 and 65415); No. 5 (EMI 00829 and 65867).]


SUGGESTED HOST INTRO

There are several ways to approach music by the Swedish composer, Carl Nielsen.  Many consider conductor Herbert Blomstedt (Bloom-stet) to be a Nielsen specialist.  Coincidentally, Herbert Blomstedt considers Nielsen to be an “instrumental” specialist.


CLIP TRANSCRIPT

“He had a keen sense of the different personalities that was inherent in the instruments.  That is also why he writes different for flute and different for cello and different for trombone.  He said that he was trying to creep into the instruments himself and find out what they wanted to say - the instruments, not the players, the instruments.”


SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt (Bloom-stet).  He joins members of the (insert orchestra) to get inside Nielsen’s (introduce Nielsen work).



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