H kan Hageg rd - Sigurd Jorsalfar / Landkjenning / Bergliot - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Although their first joint appearance on a Polish stage took place 6 years ago, it is in 2020 that their debut album is launched by the DUX record tag. Violinist Malgorzata Wasiucionek and pianist Sylwia Michalik present the album Enescu / Prokofiev / Szymanowski to the public. Currently, both artists define their cooperation as an absolute professional priority. Although each of them could endow at least a few outstanding musicians with their achievements, they observe the world through the prism of chamber music, being a tandem of charismatic artists. The duo is characterized by similar artistic views, excellent stage understanding and, above all, a fascination with the repertoire featured on the album. Album Tracks 1. Sonata No. 3 in a Minor for Piano and Violin InchIn the Romanian Folk StyleInch, Op. 25 (1926) 2. Five Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 35 Bis (1925) 3. Myths. Three Poems for Violin and Piano, Op. 30 (1915) 4.

Symphony No. #3 and Sinfonia seria are World Première Recordings. Along with Lars-Erik Larsson and Dag Wirén, Erland von Koch was part of a generation of composers who all made their débuts during the 1930s. Active until the end of a very long life (1910-2009), von Koch became one of Sweden's best loved composers, himself describing his artistic goals as follows 'I aim for a simple, clear, melodic style, often with elements of folk tone and with a definite rhythmic profile... The older you get, the more aware you become of the importance of melody.' One of von Koch's most frequently performed orchestral works is Nordiskt capriccio, which was inspired by a folk tune from Dalecarlia, and which forms the festive finale on the present disc. The compositions which precede it here are less well known, however - Impulsi (the first part of a triptych later completed with the works Echi and Ritmi) was taken up by conductors such as Sergiu Comis-siona and Walter Weller, but the two symphonies appear for the first time on disc. Especially in Symphony No.3, influences from Bartók and Hindemith can be detected - composed in 1948, it is a work which in it's thematic material contrasts defiance with lyricism and, finally, a feeling of . Sinfonia seria, von Koch's fourth work in the genre, followed a few years later, undergoing a final revision in 1962. As indicated by the title, the underlying mood of the work is grave and bittersweet - possibly this is reflected in the composer's own words regarding the thankless task of writing symphonies 'They are rarely played - especially if they are Swedish - and it takes a long time before they are InchdiscoveredInch and accepted, if indeed they ever are.' With this disc, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Per Hammarström are making their case for a hoped-for, and long overdue 'discovery' of Erland von Koch's symphonies. A

The Norwegian Soloists' Choir and Grete Pedersen have made acclaimed recordings of music spanning a millennium - from chants by Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) to the most recent compositions - and in styles ranging from folk songs to Bach motets and Berio's Coro. On their new album, the focus is on contemporary Norwegian music, with three works which all originate in words and challenge the relation between language and music. For his Lament from 2015, Lars Petter Hagen has chosen to set a short text by E. E. Cummings, written when the poet was 6 years old. The words of the poem are split up and stretched out into pulsating waves of grief, at once mysterious, beautiful and painful. Awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2018, Muohta (Snow) consists of 18 sections, each setting a single word in Sámi, the language of the indigenous people in the north of Norway. The words are all related to snow, and composer Nils Henrik Asheim has found inspiration in how indigenous peoples live with nature, as opposed to seeking to control it.