Goteborg Opera Orchestra - Hugo Alfven: Complete Orchestral Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sweden is well-known for it's many great singers, but perhaps less known for it's operas and orchestral songs. Now you have the opportunity to hear a selection of works by both male and female Swedish composers Hugo Alfven, Elfrida Andree, Ingeborg von Bronsart, Helena Munktell, Laura Netzel, Gosta Nystroem and Ture Rangstrom. On top of everything performed by a Swedish vocal dream team (Kerstin Avemo, Sabina Bisholt, Julia Sporsen, Viktor Johansson, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson) and the Goteborg Opera Orchestra conducted by Patrik Ringborg. World premiere recordings of more than half of the content! Album Tracks 1. Fritiofs saga~Inledning 2. Fritiofs saga~Nu är det höst 3. Fritiofs saga~Förlåt mig 4. båt med blommor 5. Ballade Op. 35 6. I Firenze~Tror ni en kvinna så lätt kan glömma 7. I Firenze~En sådan bikt man aldrig glömmer 8. Isjungfrun (Vision Polaire) 9. Jery und Bätely~Singe, Vogel, singe 10. Jery und Bätely~Es rauschet das Wasser 11. Kronbruden~Forskarlens sång 12. Herr Arnes penningar~Om intet jag såge 13. Herr Arnes penningar~I vilket elände har du dragit mig in

Hugo Alfvén was an accomplished writer and painter as well as musician and composer. Born in Stockholm in 1872, he studied first at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (the Royal College of Music) and then in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and Brussels. Influenced by Wagner and Richard Strauss, Alfvén's style is also permeated with the influence of Swedish folk music. Festspel (Festival Play) was commissioned to inaugurate the new art nouveau building for Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern (the Royal Dramatic Theatre) in Stockholm, in 1908, the work is suitably rousing and celebratory for such an occasion. Alfvén was asked in 1932 to write incidental music for a play by Ludvig Nordström, to commemorate the 300-year anniversary of the death of the protestant Swedish monarch at the battle of Lützen, at the end of the Thirty Years War, the suite that he subsequently extracted is a substantial work in it's own right. Cantus arcticus is perhaps Rautavaara's best-known work, and was commissioned by the University of Oulu, in northern Finland, to honour it's first formal doctoral graduation ceremony, in 1972, Rautavaara instead took his inspiration from the natural environment of the region, incorporating two-channel tape recordings of birdsong as part of the orchestral texture. Details 1. Festspel, Op. 25 2. Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61-The Bog (Think of Autumn and of Tchaikovsky) 3. Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61-Melancholy 4. Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61-Swans Migrating 5. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-1. Vision 6. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-2. Intermezzo 7. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-3. I Kejsar Ferdinands Slottskapell 8. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-4. Sarabanda 9. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-4. Bourée 10. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-4. Menuett 11. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-5. Elegi. Till Carin, Min Hustru 12. Gustav II Adolf, Op. 49-6. Breitenfeld. Bataljmånlning

Album Tracks 1. Molto Allegro 2. Andante 3. Allegro Scherzando 4. Finale Maestoso 5. Allegro 6. Andante Sostenuto 7. Intermezzo Allegro Giusto 8. Finale Andante-Allegro Con Fuoco 9. Allt Under Himmelens Faste 10. Du Gamla, Du Friska, Du Fjellhoga Nord