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The questing, listening music of composer Lars Sandberg is there like a carefully laid trail. A melody pauses, expands and moves on. It is down to us listeners to have the courage to leave the impedimenta of preconceived opinions about contemporary music behind us and, ...
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PSCD89 | PHONO SUECIA

Six compositions, ranging from solo instrument to full wind orchestra, here form a CD-portrait of Pavol Simai. With humour, distance and seriousness the composer creates music inspired by batik pictures by the artist Jarmila Simai. Dynamics, energy, airy structure and ...
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PSCD123 | PHONO SUECIA

"This CD presents four works from the late 90s- a period in Lars Ekström's composition which he himself describes as strongly marked by melody, long cantilenas, a sort of atmospheric storytelling and at the same time within a large, strictly composed framework. Lars ...
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PSCD122 | PHONO SUECIA

The large symphonic work The Stockholm Cantata had its première in June 1998 in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm. The cantata is written for choir, symphony orchestra and soloists. The work (with lyrics by the well-known Swedish poet Niklas Rådström) describes the history of ...
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PSCD121 | PHONO SUECIA

Grandert's talent as a composer is undeniably inspired by a poetic muse - but he is a friend of Dionysus rather than Apollo. The reference to The Great Feed is not chosen at random; if you try to describe Grandert's works you unavoidably find yourself using a vocabulary ...
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PSCD111 | PHONO SUECIA

Sören Hermansson has an international reputation as a sought-after soloist and teacher. He collaborates frequently with present-day composers and has had several concertos written for him, including Roberto Sierra, Daron Hagen, Bengt Hambraeus and Folke Rabe. The music ...
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PSCD113 | PHONO SUECIA

This CD presents a spectrum of a bit less than a decade of creation ranging from Symphony No 1 and Funeral Music, both from 1989, to Scapes from 1987. Viaggio, the first piece on the CD and its last, Funeral Music comprise the characteristic extremes of the selections. ...
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PSCD115 | PHONO SUECIA

1 Keep the Change (1993) , Composer: Melin, Sten (1957);2 Endymion (1993) Composer: Mellnäs, Arne (1933); 3 Totentanz (1993-94) Composer: Nilsson, Ivo (1966); 4 Om Att Cykla (1992/1996) Composer: Jönsson, Reine (1960); 5 Contra (1990) Composer: Morthenson, Jan W ...
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PSCD120 | PHONO SUECIA

tracks: Anglar Skapelsemakter, String Quartet No. 2, Naket Liv, Hommage a Terry Riley; Performer: Persson, Mats / Scholz, Kristine (1944) / Rosell, Lars-Erik (1944) / Axelsson, Mikael / Axelsson, Lise-Lotte
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PSCD119 | PHONO SUECIA

"The music collected on this CD gives a broad picture of Mikael Råberg's musical spectrum. Mikael has always picked song soloists who have a sort of Nordic style of singing, possessing an almost virgin purity. The young Linda Pettersson, who has a starring role on this ...
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PSCD136 | PHONO SUECIA

Lars Edlund, a pioneering pedagogue of choral music, is here presented by Gustaf Sjökvist's Chamber Choir conducted by Gustaf Sjökvist with some of his latest works for choir: Paradiso with Ulrika Eckstrand, soprano, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, baritone; Tva Dikter with ...
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PSCD135 | PHONO SUECIA

"This recording is unmissable! After listening to Ilona Maros's fascinating vocal resources, there just aren't enough superlatives to go round. Her incredibly pure, clear and richly nuanced lyrical soprano is so full of feeling that she seems superterrestrial." Hans ...
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PSCD37 | PHONO SUECIA

"The music of Csaba Deak can be termed playful and essentially musikantisch, but his massive craftsmanship is at the same time a guarantee of quality. The CD Vivax (meaning vigorous, long-lived) contains music for wind orchestra, chamber orchestra and symphony ...
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PSCD32 | PHONO SUECIA

Hans Gefors' opera "Christina", based on the drama by Lars Forssell (1968) and world-premièred at the Royal Stockholm Opera in 1986, was one of the biggest successes ever in new Swedish music drama, and was even telecast. This CD is based on the opera, and Lars ...
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PSCD73 | PHONO SUECIA

"Norrköping Symphony Orchestra has premiered most of his orchestral works such as one of his most important work Längtans väv (Web of Yearning). This orchestral poem describes Norrköping's former industrial district and its workers. The visual arts have been an ...
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PSCD054 | 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