Atterberg - Orchestral Works Vol.1
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5116
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 25th February 2013
Contents
Works
En varmlandsrapsodiSuite no.3 for violin, viola and string orchestra, op.19 no.1
Symphony no.4 in G minor, op.14 'Sinfonia piccola'
Symphony no.6 in C major, op.31 'Dollar Symphony'
Artists
Gothenburg Symphony OrchestraConductor
Neeme JarviWorks
En varmlandsrapsodiSuite no.3 for violin, viola and string orchestra, op.19 no.1
Symphony no.4 in G minor, op.14 'Sinfonia piccola'
Symphony no.6 in C major, op.31 'Dollar Symphony'
Artists
Gothenburg Symphony OrchestraConductor
Neeme JarviAbout
Atterberg was one of Sweden’s leading composers of the twentieth century, not to mention a conductor, critic and founder of the Society of Swedish Composers. Largely self-taught, he developed a compositional style which initially owed much to Brahms and Alfvén, although he was more inclined to paint vivid, loosely structured melodic pictures than to adhere to the traditional classical frameworks. Tuneful, accessible and fairly folkloristic too, Atterberg’s music became more impressionistic by World War I, and it was around this time that he composed most of the works on this disc.
Symphony No.4 (1918) was composed in friendly competition with a Swedish colleague, Natanael Berg. They had decided that each should compose a work lasting no longer than twenty minutes, and that a bass tuba should be heard in ‘splendid isolation’ somewhere in it. The resulting piece by Atterberg is full of humour and wit, the language open and simple, and strongly inspired by Swedish folk music.
That same year, Atterberg was asked to write music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Sœur Béatrice. For the theatre performance itself, he only had three musicians at his disposal, playing violin, viola and harmonium. A few years later, however, he reworked the harmonium part of extracts from the incidental music for string orchestra, retaining the solo violin and viola, after which this became known at Suite No.3, a work filled with beauty and passion, and ultimately one of his most frequently performed pieces.
For many years, the only work by Atterberg that circulated widely outside Sweden, in performance, recording and notoriety, was his Symphony No.6, for which in 1928 he won a prize awarded by the Columbia Gramophone Company for a work in the spirit of Schubert, who had died 100 years earlier.
En värmlandsrapsodi (1933) was written to mark the seventy-fifth birthday of the 1909 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Selma Lagerlöf, and it was performed for the first time in a live broadcast by Swedish Radio. Upon hearing the piece, Lagerlöf wrote to Atterberg: ‘It was a solemn moment when we heard the rhapsody streaming from the radio. We listened with great joy and excitement and were made happy by the echo of melodies from Värmland. May the piece live and win the people’s ear.’
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