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AWARDS
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Phono
Suecia
wins
Grammy
Phono Suecia’s
production “Clarinetto con forza”
with Staffan Mårtensson as soloist won
a Swedish Grammy in the category
Classical Solo Album of the Year 2006.
The CD received much acclaim
this past year – in amongst other
places the Swedish Radio program cdrevy
gave it a top mark – as one of the
best CDs of 2006. The CD contains
music by Jonas Forssell, Carin
Bartosch Edström, Fredrik Söderberg,
Ingvar Lidholm, Hans Eklund, Sven-
David Sandström, and Viking Dahl.
PSCD 168 – Clarinetto con forza
Rolf Martinsson—
Rosenberg prizewinner
The 2007 Rosenberg Prize, which is awarded by the
FST (The Society of Swedish Composers), has been
presented to Rolf Martinsson for being “an instrumentational
equilibrist… who has now blossomed on
the orchestral stages of Stockholm, London, Berlin,
Bonn, Helsinki, Detroit, Zagreb…”
NEWS FROM EDITION SUECIA
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Madeleine Isaksson
RUM (ROOMS)
for alto flute, bass clarinet,
percussion and cello
Score SUE 545. Parts SUE 545a
Madeleine Isaksson’s music comments, associates
and expresses atmospheres through a singular,
developed language. Rum (“Rooms”) was first performed in Stockholm in 1999 (parts 1 and
2) and has subsequently been performed in its complete version in Göteborg, Copenhagen,
Vienna and under the 2003 Stockholm New Music Festival.
Recorded on Phono Suecia, PSCD 134, by Ensemble MA and Staffan Larson, conductor.
Per Henrik Wallin
COMPOSITIONS
FOR PIANO · 19 pieces
SUE 543
Per Henrik Wallin (1946–2005) was a jazz legend even
during his own lifetime. He is regarded as by far the most
impulsive jazz pianists and composers Sweden has ever produced.
His style has been branded as uncompromising, masterly,
and violent, but there is also an intimacy and a poetry,
as revealed in this collection of piano compositions: pure
jazz tunes, little gems, miniatures in a tradition rooted in
Beethoven’s Bagatelles.
www.editionsuecia.com
Photo: Lars Torndahl
NEW RELEASE FROM
PHONO SUECIA
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DRAMA
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JONAS FRANKE-BLOM
PSCD 158
The music in Drama was originally written
for the theatre. Much of the inspiration for the
works comes from a stage situation where the
music functions as a counterpoint to the text
and where returning motives become important
cornerstones.
The compositions were commissioned in
connection with the respective productions at
the Gothenburg City Theatre: Hamlet in
1997, Albert Speer in 2001 (at Stora Teatern),
and The Tempest in 2002.
MUSICIANS
Chamber ensemble, Gothenburg Chamber
Choir
Conductor: Jonas Franke-Blom
HAMLET SUITE
The Execution, part one – Moment of Death
– Hamlet and Ophelia – Solo Cadenza – Music
of Destiny – Madness – Ophelia’s Entreaty –
The Execution, part two
ALBERT SPEER
The Song of Ukraine – Waiting – The People
– Solo – Requiem
THE TEMPEST
Prospero and the Sea – Bathing Music – Duet
– The Song of Miranda – Chorale – The
Tempest – Waltz
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