Hans P lsson - Modern Swedish Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Chelleri is far older than any other symphonist in our series. In his Corpus, the symphony understood in a modern sense, is the accomplishment of a long path of research and transformation of style. When Chelleri did deal with Inchmodern symphoniesInch, counting himself among the proponents of the new instrumental music, after having written mainly plays and harpsichords as well as old-style symphonies, he no longer resided in the Duchy of Parma, where he was born, but in northern Europe, in Germany and in Sweden. Chelleri was a great imitator, and these InchSix new symphoniesInch are clearly six stylistic studies on the new trends in vogue in Europe in the 1730s and 1740s.

Hans P lsson - Skargardsskisser [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/17/2001

The title of Richard Dawson's new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Middling songwriting? End of the Middle is a wonkily beautiful peer into the workings of the family unit, perhaps several generations of the same family InchI wanted this record to be small-scale and very domesticInch, Dawson explains, Inchto be stripped back, stark and naked, and let the lyrics and melodies speak for themselves and for the people in the songsInch. By paring things right back what is revealed is a suite of remarkably poised, oddly elegant, beautiful music.