STERLING

	IVAR HALLSTROM: Label: STERLING 1001/2 Our Price: $35.00 Quantity in Basket: none
IVAR HALLSTROM (1826 - 1901):Den bergtagna (The Bride of the Mountain King), opera in five acts. Umea Symphony Orchestra; Choir from the Norrland Opera/Alan Hacker/B. Tommy Andersson; Soloists: Monica Sjoholm; Hillevi Martinpelto; Lars Billengren; Helge Lannerback; Karl-Robert Lindgren; Lars Tibell; Berit Lindholm; Bengt Krantz. The most important opera composer Sweden ever had. There are clear traces of folk music in this huge National Romantic opera, which was perfromed on numerous occasions at the Royal Opera in Stockholm during the 1870's. WORLD PREMIERE! ( 2CD )
	JAKOB ADOLF HAGG: Label: STERLING 1007 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
JAKOB ADOLF HAGG (1850 – 1928): Nordic Symphony; Overtures; American Festival Music. Gavleborg Symphony Orchestra/Mats Liljefors/Goran W. Nilson. Hagg indeed possessed a talent that was allowed to stagnate. The front cover of the CD features Josephson’s famous portrait of the composer, in which he gazes dreamily towards the prospect of future greatness…The symphony clearly shows the influence of Schumann – but Hagg had a tremendous melodic gift, as evident from the two overtures. WORLD PREMIERE!
	KURT ATTERBERG: Label: STERLING 1010 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
KURT ATTERBERG (1887 – 1974): Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 3 (1909 – 11, revised edition 1913), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Stig Westerberg; Symphony No. 4 in G minor ‘Sinfonia Piccola’, Op. 14 (1917), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Sten Frykberg.....AVAILABLE AGAIN! Can a composer write more contrasting symphonies than these? The First is a powerful, stormy piece of music, with a second movement that is humble, sentimental and beautiful. The Fourth is more idyllic and delicate – and is here conducted by the legendary Sten Frykberg. WORLD PREMIERE!
	OSKAR LINDBERG: Label: STERLING 1013 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
OSKAR LINDBERG (1887 – 1955): Requiem, Op. 21; Choral pieces a cappella; Florez and Blanzeflor, Op. 12. Hans Kyhle and Stig Westerberg, conductors. Oskar Lindberg’s duties as organist and choirmaster at the Engelbrekt church in Stockholm made him one of Sweden’s finest choral specialists. The Requiem is a stately and very passionate work, coupled on this CD with some beautiful a cappella pieces. WORLD PREMIERE!
	ELFRIDA ANDREE: Label: STERLING 1016 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
ELFRIDA ANDREE (1841 – 1929): Fritiof Suite; Symphony in A minor. Stockholm Symphony Orchestra/Gustaf Sjokvist. Elfrida Andree was a Reinecke pupil, and his style is recognizable in the ‘Fritiof Suite’, originally an opera, with its lively orchestration. The composer thought that it would be more frequently performed as an orchestral suite, however, and thus prepared the version recorded here. WORLD PREMIERE!
	DU PUY; WEYSE, ETC.: Label: STERLING 1018 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
DANISH OVERTURES: ROYAL DANISH ORCHESTRA
	OTTO OLSSON: Label: STERLING 1020 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
OTTO OLSSON (1879 – 1964): Symphony in G minor, Op. 11. Gavleborg Symphony Orchestra/ Mats Liljefors. Here is something almost unbelievable. A huge Swedish symphony by a composer who is almost unknown in this field! Most of Olsson’s music was written for the organ; Sibelius was among his main sources of inspiration. The long third movement is unique in Swedish music with its beautiful slow melodies. WORLD PREMIERE!
	ARMAS JARNEFELT: Label: STERLING 1021 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
ARMAS JARNEFELT (1869 – 1958): Ouverture lyrique; Korsholm; Berceuse; Praeludium; Music from ‘Sangen om den eldroda blomman’ and ‘Det forlovade landet’. Gavle Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Koivula. Armas Jarnefelt – brother-in-law of Sibelius – is principally remembered as conductor of the Stockholm Opera, a post he held for many years, and as the composer of the idyllic ‘Berceuse’ for orchestra. This CD also contains larger-scale orchestral works; ‘Korsholm’, a magnificent symphonic poem in a Wagnerian, late-Romantic spirit, describes how the Swedes introduced Christianity to Finland. WORLD PREMIERE!
	HANS HUBER: Label: STERLING 1022 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
HANS HUBER (1852 – 1921): Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 115, ‘Bocklin Symphony’; A Comedy Overture, Op. 50; Symphonic Prologue to the Opera ‘Der Simplicius’. Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra/Jorg-Peter Weigle. The first disc in a series featuring Switzerland’s foremost Romantic composer. The music clearly show the influence of Brahms; the symphony, however, is at times more daring in its harmonies, with stormy and grandiose sonorities. WORLD PREMIERE!
	OSCAR BYSTROM: Label: STERLING 1025 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
OSCAR BYSTROM (1821 – 1909): Symphony in D minor; Andantino Overture in D major; Overture to ‘Herman Vimpel’; Concert Waltzes Nos. 1 & 3. Gavle Symphony Orchestra/Carlos Spierer. Finally on record! Berwald was the inspiration for his colleague Bystrom. The symphony has devilish and ingenious elements, and the CD also features a beautiful, sweeping orchestral Andantino. Full of feeling and atmosphere. WORLD PREMIERE!
	KURT ATTERBERG: Label: STERLING 1026 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
KURT ATTERBERG (1887 – 1974): Symphony No. 7, Op. 45, ‘Sinfonia Romantica’; Symphony No. 8, Op. 48. Malmo Symphony Orchestra/Michail Jurowski. Atterberg allows Swedish folk music to gush forth in symphonic guise – especially in the Eight Symphony, which features many recognizable melodies. An immaculate recording by the Malmo Symphony Orchestra! WORLD PREMIERE!
	HANS HUBER: Label: STERLING 1027 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
HANS HUBER (1852 – 1921): Symphony No. 5, ‘Romantic’, in F major, with solo violin; First Serenade, ‘Summer Nights’, in E major, Op. 86. Hansheinz Schneeberger, violin; Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra/Jorg-Peter Weigle. Two works of a more idyllic nature than those on the first Huber CD. Mendelssohn is never far away from the ‘Summer Nights’ serenade – a hot, trembling summer night with atmospheric woodwind solos. The symphony on this disc is almost like a violin concerto in which the composer gives a musical description of a mediaeval legend, with tone paintings in the spirit of Berlioz. WORLD PREMIERE!
	ANDREAS HALLEN: Label: STERLING 1028 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
ANDREAS HALLEN (1846 – 1925): Ett Juloratorium (A Christmas Oratorio)(1904). Lena Hoel, soprano; Mathias Zachariassen, tenor; Swedish Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra/B. Tommy Andersson. It is indeed a mystery that this Christmas Oratorio is not a standard repertoire work in Sweden. A jubilant, splendid, grandiose and at times highly impassioned and beautiful work by a real master – who was held in low esteem during his lifetime because of his contentious opinions. WORLD PREMIERE!
	ALBERT RUBENSON: Label: STERLING 1029 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
ALBERT RUBENSON (1826 – 1901): Drapa; Symphony in C major; Symphonic intermezzo; Trois Pieces symphoniques. Umea Symphony Orchestra/Roy Goodman. This is a unique production. A masterful composer, today almost entirely forgotten, who – after studies in Leipzig together with Ludvig Norman – attempted to reform Swedish musical life. Unfortunately he failed, and the composer ended up as a conscientious inspector at what was then the Stockholm Conservatory of Music; he often crossed swords with Alfven, who studied there. Peterson-Berger must have been influenced by Rubenson’s very striking and varied style. WORLD PREMIERE!
	AUGUST SODERMAN: Label: STERLING 1030 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none
AUGUST SODERMAN (1832 – 1876): Catholic Mass (1875); Die Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar (1859 – 66). Soloists; Musikhogskolans stora kor; Musikhogskolans kammarkor; Musikhogskolans symfoniorkester/Per Borin. Soderman, perhaps Sweden’s greatest musical genius, wrote only a few large-scale, fully developed works. This oratorio was written towards the end of the composer’s life. Wonderful leaps and individual, concise themes characterize the music; this recording (listen and be amazed!) is by pupils of the College of Music in Stockholm. Such pupils render their teachers redundant. WORLD PREMIERE!