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Radio 3,24 Oct 2013,20 mins

Nielsen Symphony No. 4

Discovering Music

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Nielsen declared that in his Fourth Symphony, written during the First World War, he wanted to give expression to 'the elemental will to live'. Stephen Johnson explores the structure of the work, also known as 'The Inextinguishable'.

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