Classical: The Danish invasion Carl Nielsen is Denmark's most famous composer, but he's just one of many being featured at this year's Proms.

The Independent - London | July 23, 1999| | Copyright

I have always adored the Danish island of Funen, though I never actually arrived there until last month. For years, Denmark's greatest composer after Buxtehude ferried me on the wings of his delightful "lyrical humoresque", Springtime in Funen. Nowadays, the train journey from Copenhagen to Funen speeds past windmills and sprays of poppies, beneath a stretch of sea and across a long bridge. Carl Nielsen would not have recognised the sophisticated railway station-cum-library complex in his home-town of Odense, still less the social problems that appear to be growing there. But he would surely ...

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