PHONO SUECIA
Maurice Karkoff's enormous output is already quite legendary. He is a composer who literally lives in music and who has composed works in every imaginable genre; from children's songs to opera and from piano miniatures to symphonies. (label info)
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PSCD108 | PHONO SUECIA
As is apparent on this CD, Jörgen Pettersson is a brilliant interpreter, both technically and musically. He is a chamber music player, he likes to work in close collaboration with composers, preferably young and preferably unconventional ones. He likes to work with ...
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PSCD81 | PHONO SUECIA
"The Swedish composer Jan Carlstedt studied with professor Lars Erik Larsson in the late 1940's and continued his studies in England and Italy. He has always composed music that is completely sincere and profoundly human, with unbroken threads to tradition, nature and ...
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PSCD101 | PHONO SUECIA
Johannes Jansson was a relatively unknown composer until 1998, when the release of his CD "The Silver Call" caused something of a sensation. One reviewer found "Something spiritual and timeless about his beautiful and important work," and Lennart Bromander, writing in ...
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PSCD104 | PHONO SUECIA
Mikael Edlund (b. 1950) is a composer who has blazed new trails of his own. His string quartet "Brains and Dancin'" (1981) proved to be a major breakthrough for a composer of extreme austerity whose endeavour has come to focus on "sensuality and time". His rock and jazz ...
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PSCD20 | PHONO SUECIA
"New music which is not academic, a record which can demolish many prejudices" was one reviewer's verdict on this record, in which KammarensembleN, under its sadly short-lived founder and conductor Ansgar Krook, plays music by Anders Eliasson and Henrik Strindberg, ...
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PSCD57 | PHONO SUECIA
"Wlodek Gulgowski was born in 1944, in Lodz, Poland where he studied piano at the conservatory. After his studies, he dedicated himself to improvisation and jazz. He came to Sweden in 1965 and worked as a pianist, arranger and composer; during this time, he collaborated ...
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PSCD65 | PHONO SUECIA
"André Chini, a Frenchman by birth but living in Sweden for many years now, has always been critical of his former compatriots' nuclear weapons tests, and his Mururoa violin concerto was written in protest against them already in 1989. "Nils-Erik Sparf is a brilliant ...
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PSCD80 | PHONO SUECIA
"Music by Werner Wolf Glaser, one of Sweden's most productive composers. He was born i Cologne, Germany, but is since 1944 an important figure in the musical life of Vasteras, Sweden: as a composer, music reviewer and founder of The Vasteras School of Music. He studied ...
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PSCD14 | PHONO SUECIA
"When this recording was released, one review declared that the Hägersten Motet Choir and Ingemar Månsson, its director, belonged to the upper firmament of choral music! Innumerable are the works by Swedish composers which the choir has premiered. The three choral ...
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PSCD25 | PHONO SUECIA
