sentences:  Biographies and studies in English in the 1990s helped to establish Nielsen's status worldwide, to the point at which his music has become a regular feature of concert programming in Western countries.Writing in "The New Yorker" in 2008, the American music critic Alex Ross compares the "brute strength" of Nielsen's symphonies to Beethoven's "Eroica" and Fifth Symphony but explains that only now were the Americans slowly beginning to appreciate the Danish composer.In particular, he compliments Alan Gilbert on his understanding and interpretations of the Nielsen symphonies.