Ikoner Lars Edlund PSCD 135 - Svensk Musik - Stim

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Polar Music
Prize 2001
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
The Polar Music Prize presented by the
Stig Anderson Music Prize Fund of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music has
been awarded in 2001 to three winners
for the first time. They are the American
composer Burt Bacharach, the engineer
Robert Moog and the German composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen. The prize –
1,000,000 Swedish kronor to each – is
one of the most substantial and prestigious
music prizes in the world and will
be given for the 10th time to the prize
winners at a ceremony to be held in
Stockholm on May 14th by the King of
Sweden.
Burt Bacharach, composer, arranger,
record producer and pianist, is being
awarded the Polar Music Prize for his
achievements as an architect of contemporary
music. He has been a principal
player on the musical scene ever since his
debut in the late 1950s, producing a host
of timeless classics stemming from his infallible
feeling for powerful, memorable
and unmistakably personal melodies and
for brilliantly designed harmony.
Robert Moog is awarded the prize for
his design of the MiniMoog, the first
compact, easy-to-use synthesizer, which
paved the way to the realm of electronic
sounds that has revolutionised all genres
of music during the past half-century. He
is still developing instruments but his first
inventions have since been further developed
by Roland, Sony and other producers
of modern synthesizers.
Karlheinz Stockhausen is awarded the
prize for a career as a composer that has
been characterized by impeccable integrity
and never-ceasing creativity, and for
having stood at the forefront of musical
development for fifty years. His list of
works is very comprehensive (285 to
date) and he has also published books
which have a worldwide reputation and
are of the greatest importance.
NEW RELEASE ON PHONO SUECIA
SVEN-DAVID SANDSTRÖM
A Cradle Song
– The Tyger
PSCD 139
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Eric
Ericson, conductor
Hear My Prayer
April and Silence
Étude No 4 as in E Minor
A Cradle Song - The Tyger
A New Heaven and A New Earth
Agnus Dei
Swedish
Gramophone
Prize for
Phono Suecia
Seven Pieces – compositions by
Lennart Åberg and featuring Peter
Erskine, Bobo Stenson and Palle
Danielsson – has been awarded the
Swedish Gramophone Award for
2000 in the category of Jazz Album of
the Year (PSCD118).
Lars Johan Werle
receives
Atterberg Prize
Lars Johan Werle has been awarded the
Atterberg Prize for the year 2000. The jury’s
motivation is as follows: “Ever since
the international music days in Bilthoven
in 1960, where Lars Johan Werle won first
prize in all categories for his string quartet
Pentagram, Lars Johan Werle has been
one of our most acclaimed composers.
Due to his undogmatic and creative production,
above all in the fields of musical
drama and choral music, Werle has today
a firm place in Swedish musical life. Werle
has also been involved in political activity
concerning music and has worked to
improve his colleagues’ situation. His pedagogical
work with opera students in
Sweden and abroad has also contributed
to the understanding of new musical drama.”
The prize was presented at the regular
ceremony on December 17th at STIM. At
the same event, the writer Oscar Hedlund
was awarded STIM’s Author’s
Award.
Photo: Hans Havelund
NEW RELEASES ON CD
A selection of recordings released
during the last months.
Jazz/World
MIRRORS
Joakim Milder, Christian Spering,
Fredrik Norén. Associations.
MICD 009
BURT BACHARACH
ROBERT MOOG
ACT
Nils Landgren, Esbjörn Svensson.
Layers of Light. ACT 9281-2
AMIGO
Maria Kalaniemi, Sven Ahlbäck.
Luftstråk. AMCD745
CAPRICE
The Golden Years (1952-1955).
CAP 22042
DRAGON
Peter Danemo Kapell. Alive.
DRCD 354
DRONE
Sågskära. Apelgrå. DROCD023
EAR
Göran Månsson, Sven Åberg.
Spår. EAR 011
IMOGENA RECORDS
Lars Jansson. Nordic Meeting.
IGCD 090
LJ RECORDS
Sten Sandell. Elektrika Sten.
Ljcd 5226
Johan Berthling, Fredrik Ljungkvist,
Sten Sandell. Ljcd 5224
Classical
INTIM MUSIK
Nelson, Henryson, Högberg.
21st Century Swedish Composers.
Västerås Sinfonietta/Glenn Mossop.
IMCD 072
NOSAG RECORDS
Lars-Erik Larsson. Förkädd Gud.
Enskede Kammarkör, Birgersson,
bar, Larsson, sopr, Levengood, rec,
musicians from the Sw Radio SO/
Eva Karpe. Nosag CD 064
PHONO SUECIA
Lars Edlund. Ikoner.
Gustaf Sjökvist Chamber Choir, Uppsala
Chamber Orchestra. U Eckstrand,
sopr, J Köhn, sopr, K-M Fredriksson,
bar, B Forsberg, pf, P Myrberg,
rec/Gustaf Sjökvist. PSCD 135
Sven-David Sandström. A Cradle
Song - The Tyger. Eric Ericson
Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson.
PSCD 139
STERLING
August Söderman. Orchestral
Music, vol. 2. SO of Norrlands
Opera/Roy Goodman. CDS 1040-2
Swedish Jazz Awards
As mentioned in the Newsletter 4/
2000, the first Swedish Jazz Celebration
took place in Stockholm in
February, and during that occasion
the following jazz awards were handed
out:
The Django d’Or Awards:
Rolf Ericson - Legend of Jazz
Bengt Hallberg - Master of Jazz
Palle Danielsson - Contemporary
Artist of jazz
The ‘Jazz in Sweden’ Award:
Lindha Svantesson
The Swedish Broadcasting Corporation
Award ‘Jazzkatten’ (“The Jazz Cat”):
Mats Gustafsson - Jazz artist
Patrik Boman’s Seven Piece Machine - Jazz
ensemble
Jonas Kullhammar - New artist
Best jazz recording of 2000 ‘Gyllene
Skivan’ (“The Golden Record”):
Patrik Boman’s Seven Piece Machine
341020 Gotlands Grafiska Visby 2001
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