Although he is most highly regarded for his six symphonies (Naxos 8.503006), Carl Nielsen also composed a number of short orchestral pieces and a large body of incidental music for the theatre. The finest of the shorter pieces is undoubtedly the tone poem Pan and Syrinx, whose radical approach to timbre and texture anticipates the Fifth Symphony. The most important of Nielsen’s music for theatre productions is Aladdin, a lavish score which now enjoys an independent existence as the Aladdin Suite. The most famous number is The Marketplace in Ispahan, which superimposes four different musical ideas so as to evoke the sensation of sound coming from all sides of the market arena.