Scandinavian Wind Quintets

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Cat No: 8553050

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099405027

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Scandinavian Wind Quintets

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Scandinavian Wind Quintets John Fernström (1897 - 1961)Wind Quintet, Op. 59 Allegro moltoAdagio Scherzo Finale - Rondo: Vivace Johan Kvandal (b.1919)Wind Quintet, Op. 34 Preludium: Largo Presto Adagio ma non troppo Allegro assai Three Hymn Tunes, Op.23bOur Lord is Faithful in Life and Death (Vor Gud er tro i liv og død) (from Gudbrandsdalen) Praise to the Lord (Lover nu Herren) (from Nordfjord) The Price is Greater (Det koster mer end man først betenker) (from Gudbrandsdalen)Carl Nielsen (1865 - 1931)Wind Quintet, Op. 43 Allegro ben moderato Menuett Præludium: Adagio — Tema con variazioni The Swedish composer John Axel Fernström was born in 1897 in Ichang, in China, where he spent the first ten years of his life at his father's mission station. In 1913 he entered the Malmö Conservatory and from 1916 until 1939 served as a violinist in the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, of which he was manager from 1932 and director of student concerts. As a violinist he had had further training as a pupil of Max Schlüter in Copenhagen and with Issay Barmas in Berlin and between 1923 and 1930 studied composition with Peder Gram in Copenhagen and in 1930 at the Sondershausen Conservatory, where he had his training as a conductor. From 1939 to 1941 he was conductor of the Malmö Radio Orchestra and from 1948 until his death in 1961 he was director of the conservatory and conductor of the symphony orchestra in Lund. In 1950 he founded the Nordiska Ungdomsorkestem (Nordic Youth Orchestra) and was also conductor of various choirs, including the Lunds Kvinnliga Studentkör. In 1953 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy. His study of painting in Paris led to a number of fine works in this medium, while, as a composer, he wrote twelve symphonies and three operas, two on ancient Egyptian subjects and the third a version of Calderon's La vida es sueño and, among many other works, settings of Songs of the Sea, with words taken from Tennyson, Wordsworth, Shelley and Thomas Moore. Fernström's Wind Quintet, Opus 59, was written in 1943 and bears witness to his own description of his music at this time as generally tonal, classical in form, if eclectic in its attempt to provide a synthesis of contemporary styles. The first movement of the quintet opens with a single angular melodic line, at once imitated by clarinet and then by oboe and bassoon in a predominantly contrapuntal texture. The slow movement unwinds in similar fashion, as the strands of melody are interwoven. A more agitated accompaniment in the central section is followed by a return to the long-drawn melodic line and contrapuntal texture, with its Baroque imitations and suspensions. The mood changes as the flute introduces the brief Scherzo, with its contrasting central section. The quintet ends with a final Rondo, introduced in the same contrapuntally imitative fashion and containing material of some variety. Johan Kvandal, born in Oslo in
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