SACD, 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... —
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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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[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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Special offer. Like to the Lark
Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps
Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... —
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Record Review, 16th November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Whatever the composer’s mood or manner, from full- throated vocal cries to intimate chamber delicacies, Jӓrvi clearly believes in this music. So does the Gotherburg Symphony, the orchestra Stenhammar... —
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A charming and repeatable release where No. 6, especially, deserves to be better known. —
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The Stenhammars conclude the first-ever complete cycle of their namesake's quartets on disc with characteristically energetic and well-explored readings of his first two essays in the genre. —
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this new recording is more romantic and rhapsodic...This is music not just for Nordic specialists and should be investigated. —
