Give your Hi-Fi a blowout and your ears a treat. In these gloomy times, it's good to experience Nielsen's 'hymn to the joy of work' now available in its fullness. It's one of the finest CDs ever produced. . . period. --MusicWeb-International.com, Jack LawsonAlan Gilbert is in the midst of an exciting project with the New York Philharmonic to perform and record Carl Nielsen's complete symphonies and concertos. The first release in the series is terrific, with pulsing and insightful accounts of the Second Symphony ('The Four Temperaments') and the Third ('Sinfonia Espansiva'). --The New York Times, Anthony TommasiniCarl Nielsen's symphonies have been rare finds in American symphonic recording catalogs. Leonard Bernstein programmed them occasionally, and perhaps that was the inspiration for the New York Philharmonic and conductor Alan Gilbert with this intriguing release. The reverse chronological order the Symphony No. 3 dates from 1912, ten years after its predecessor works well, for the Symphony No. 3 is the weightier work...the work certainly is expansive, with a great variety of orchestral tones and an eerie wordless vocal duet that comes in toward the end of the second movement. The New York Philharmonic...sound terrific here. The real highlight is the Symphony No. 2, which neatly merges Nielsen's big symphonic idiom with the flair for comic drama he showed in the opera Maskarade. With Dacapo's typically clear sound, this is a fine addition to symphonic libraries. --Allmusic.com, James Manheim