Nielsen night

To restate a conviction offered in various fora and media over the years, going back to WHRB's Nielsen Orgy of 1990: Thomas Jensen's 1952 live version of the Nielsen Fourth and Launy Grøndahl's 1956 take on the Second are among the greatest, grittiest recordings ever made. If I ever hear an orchestra play with half the passion of those Danish Radio musicians of the fifties, I'll count myself very lucky.