Marteau,Henri / Garaguly / Kyndel / Nissen Et Al - Swedish Pupils & Colleagues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

If a composer writes 24 caprices for the violin, and if he himself is also a uniquely virtuoso violinist, then a comparison with the 24 caprices by Paganini is inevitable Henri Marteau was not only appreciated and revered as one of the greatest violinists of his time, but his compositional work was lost in the background. He shared this fate with Niccolò Paganini, who was also experienced during his lifetime more as a InchwarlockInch of the violin than as a serious composer and musician. So, if this comparison is almost inevitable, it must be mentioned that Paganini himself, with his main work published in 1820, also took up the example of other composers, such as the Etudes and Caprices of Rodolphe Kreutzer. The subtitle of Henri Marteau's Caprices Inchd'exécution transcendanteInch is also very revealing. Moreover, Marteau has his miniatures accompanied throughout by the piano, unlike Paganini, who uses the violin alone. The violin virtuoso Ingolf Turban considered his own violin class at the Hochschule München predestined for this first recording of all 24 of Marteau's caprices. So together they dared to do the almost unbelievable all twelve students in his class were involved in this mammoth task, the absolute peak of which, of course, lies in the very elaborate piano accompaniment. Here he engaged the pianist Tomoko Nishikawa, who confidently took on this mammoth task! Ingolf Turban also described himself as the Inch13th studentInch, so to speak, so he took the caprices for his own playing from the InchrestInch, which for hidden reasons was rather spurned, and gladly took part in it. The present recording is the result of a live concert on 12 December 2017 in the large hall of the Munich Musikhochschule and a smaller event on 7 October 2019.

Vinyl LP pressing. Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 album from Toronto singer/songwriter Ladan Hussein (AKA Cold Specks). InchFool's Paradise,Inch the title track of the album, was partially inspired by the legend of Araweelo, a mythic Somali queen who's said to have castrated male foes. InchFool's ParadiseInch is also the first time Cold Specks' music has incorporated the Somali language. The words in the song's bridge are Inchkala garo naftaada iso laftaada,Inch or Inchunderstand the difference between your bones and your soulInch-a phrase Hussein says she learned from her grandmother, and a sentiment entirely at home amidst Cold Specks' brand of spare, meditative soul.

This is a collection of Swedish orchestral recordings, originally released on LP and now transferred to new mediums. The music spans the Baroque era of Johan Agrell through to the mid-20th century of Bo Linde. There are many premiere recordings here, including Peterson-Berger's May Carnival in Stockholm, an exciting work celebrating the end of winter and the Stockholm Spring. Other highlights are Erik Saedéns wonderful singing of the Peterson-Berger ballads, the brooding Romanticism of Adolf Wiklund's Symphonic Prologue, and the timeless melodies of Lars-Erik Larsson long appreciated by Swedish audiences. Hugo Alfvén's short piece, part of a cantata, was said to be the composer's own favorite composition. Varied and rich, as it should be - a Smörgåsbord of Swedish orchestral music.