7318599926865

Sara Wennerberg-reuter; Andreas Hallen; Wilhelm Stenhammar: Swedish Vocal And Chamber Music

Sofie Asplund; Johan Dalene; Peter Friis Johansson; Daniel Migdal; Albin Uusijarvi; Amalie Stalheim

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Format: SACD

Cat No: BIS2686

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Release Date:  05 September 2025

Label:  Bis / BIS Records

Packaging Type:  EcoPak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7318599926865

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Sara Wennerberg-Reuter; Andreas Hallen; Wilhelm Stenhammar

  • Description

    Pianist Peter Friis Johansson has brought together renowned musicians, including violinist Johan Dalene and soprano Sofie Asplund, for a programme that juxtaposes three generations of Swedish composers. The vocal and chamber works performed here testify to the special place these genres occupy in Swedish art music and to the vitality of musical societies in the early twentieth century, which sparked an interest that went far beyond easily digestible music. Andreas Hallen is the oldest of the composers featured here. His Piano Quartet shows great confidence despite being an early work. Like many composers of his generation, Hallen readily incorporates folk elements. Wilhelm Stenhammar produced an important and varied body of work. His Violin Sonata is a work that reflects the ideals of his German education: it is absolute music without any explicit extra-musical narrative content, a 'synthesis of classicism and sensitive poetry', as his first biographer put it. Sara Wennerberg-Reuter is the least-known of the three, and many of her scores remain unpublished. Stockholm's only female organist with a permanent position, she left behind a varied body of work spanning a wide range of styles. She distanced herself from her contemporaries with a musical style that focused on melody, a commodity she felt had by then become scarce.