CD, Stenhammar (composer)
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This disc is special. Whether it’s the frisson of live performance or the fact that Blomstedt came to these scores late in life and is radiating the joy of discovery, I can’t say. What I do... —
Awards:
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Diapason d’Or, March 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Sara Wennerberg-Reuter; Andreas Hallén; Wilhelm Stenhammar: Swedish Vocal and Chamber Music
Sofie Asplund (soprano), Johan Dalene (violin), Peter Friis Johansson (piano), Daniel Migdal (violin), Albin Uusijärvi (viola), Amalie Stalheim (cello)
Hallén's quartet is probably the only essential listen here, but the other byways of Swedish Romantic music won't waste your time. —
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Pure post-Romantic Scandi loveliness – great tunes, lush orchestrations and a fun fugue. What more could you want of a dull January day? The Antwerps are on form. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Stenhammar: Tirfing
Romantic Opera in Sweden, Vol. 11
Martina Dike, Daniel Hällström, Bengt Krantz, Ulrika Mjorndal, Nils Olsson, Dardan Bakraqi, Per Fernesten, Patrik Forsman, Jakob Högström, Malmö Opera, Malmö Opera Choir, Arnold Östman
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Although Stenhammar's orchestral and concertante works are now quite well known, the music he wrote for the piano has, until recently, been unfamiliar. As a recitalist he seemed to value the... —
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[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 49 – Stenhammar
Seta Tanyel (piano)
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Manze was a shrewd choice of conductor, as was Seta Tanyel as soloist, a pianist whose lyrical grace is matched by a no-holds-barred bravura… —
