Briefly Noted: Nielsen's Piano Music

C. Nielsen, Complete Piano Music, C. Bjørkøe (2008, 2 CDs)
The music of Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is always worth discovering, rare as it is. Nielsen made his musical living as a violinist, but he learned the piano from a young age and began most of his compositional work at the keyboard. Over the course of his life he composed enough solo piano pieces (see also the extraordinary