Nielsen: Piano Music

By Herbert Kupferberg

(John Ogdon; RCA Victor LSC-3002). Nielsen’s piano pieces share some of the characteristics of his orchestral music, combining a kind of rugged strength with a prevailingly lyric feeling. Included here are the Suites Opus 8 and Opus 45, the Chaconne, Opus 32, and Three Piano Pieces, Opus 59. Ogdon plays them with vigor.