Release Date: 01 September 2018
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599923772
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Ingmar Bergman
Description
Ingmar Bergman made fifty films, directed more than 150 theatre productions and wrote several books, but the recurrent thread running through his life was music. Bergman’s interest in classical music became evident early on in his career. Music in Darkness (1948) is about a pianist who loses his sight, To Joy (1950) features a violinist who dreams of a solo career and Summer Interlude (1951) takes place at the Royal Swedish Opera. He admired all who could perform music, reserving his greatest love for pianists. One of Bergman’s favourite Swedish pianists was Roland Pöntinen, who here performs a number of pieces featured in Bergman’s films, by composers including Mozart, Chopin and Schumann. Pöntinen is joined by the Stenhammar Quartet in the second movement of Schumann’s piano quintet, used by Bergman to great effect in the award-winning Fanny and Alexander. Another of the director’s favourite performers, the cellist Torleif Thedéen, also contributes to the project, with the sarabandes from three of Bach’s suites for solo cello.
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
Trio Boccherini
Masato Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki; Masato Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki
