Credo by Hélène Grimaud is one of the most effectively sequenced discs ever released. The movement from the hazy postmodernism of John Corigliano's Fantasia on an Ostinato for solo piano and the passionate Romanticism of Beethoven's Tempest Sonata for solo piano, then on through the Enlightenment ecstasy of Beethoven's Choral Fantasia for piano ...
Surprises are in store here for anyone expecting the contemplative style for which Arvo Pärt is best known. The composer's identity is still recognizable -- events happen deliberately, in a slow, wave-like procession. But all three works on the disc are marked by dramatic contrasts rather than Pärt's usual resounding stasis. There's nothing ...
Collections of the symphonies of Swedish composer Franz Berwald have always been few and far between. Indeed, there have only ever been six sets of the complete symphonies in the whole history of recordings and, needless to say, most of them have been by Swedish conductors. The reason for this, of course, is that Berwald's symphonies are virtually ...
With this superlative 1999 recording by violinist Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard, the Swedish modernist Allan Pettersson's late Second Violin Concerto receives its first digital recording. The only previous recording on Capriccio from 1980 had been performed by the forces that gave the work its ...
The English notes for this disc refer to Allan Pettersson as an "oddball." The French notes have the word as "original" while in German it reads "Querdenker." Unfortunately, the epitaph is not inappropriate. Few composers had a more consistently difficult life and fewer still wrote such relentlessly difficult music. Born on the wrong side of ...
Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942) wrote five operas, the fourth of which, Dromedagsprofeterna (The Doomsday Prophets), received its premiere in 1919 and has had some success in Sweden. The opera, for which the composer wrote his own libretto, is a convoluted love story set in the seventeenth century and involves a wager about ...
Hilary Hahn is always ready to take on new challenges as she has demonstrated in nearly every album of violin concertos in her recording career, from her precocious 1999 recording of Beethoven's masterpiece to her 2006 pairing of showpieces by Paganini and Spohr. On this 2008 Deutsche Grammophon release, she grapples with Arnold Schoenberg's ...
Born in 1947, Swedish composer Anders Eliasson receives two world-premiere recordings on this 2008 CPO disc with Johannes Gustavsson leading the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra: his Concerto for violin, piano, and orchestra premiered in 2005 and his Sinfonia per archi premiered in 2003. Both works are immediately attractive, the Concerto for its ...
Walter Braunfels composed his setting of the Te Deum hymn in thanksgiving for his conversion to Catholicism after witnessing the horrors of the First World War from the front line. Though called a Te Deum, it is more aptly described as a choral symphony and was premiered under Hermann Abendroth in Cologne in 1922. According to one review, it ...
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