Atterberg - Concerto for Violin & Cello, Barocco, Sinfonia for Strings | Danacord DACOCD836

Atterberg - Concerto for Violin & Cello, Barocco, Sinfonia for Strings

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Label: Danacord

Cat No: DACOCD836

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st March 2019

Contents

Artists

Amus Kerstin Andersson (violin)
Mats Levin (cello)
Orebro Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Thord Svedlund

Works

Atterberg, Kurt

Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, op.57
Sinfonia for Strings, op.53
Suite no.5 'Barocco', op.23

Artists

Amus Kerstin Andersson (violin)
Mats Levin (cello)
Orebro Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Thord Svedlund

About

Atterberg has told us that the Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, alternating between G minor and C major, is the last piece of his music worth performing. “The weather turned awful, and 14 August there was at thunderstorm and the hailstones covered the ground in white. But that pushed the work with my double concerto ahead.” He was engaged as Kapellmeister at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and it became a natural thing for him to be given the first option of arranging old music or composing new pieces for the theatre’s performances. He wrote music for plays such as The Old Play of Everyone, Androcles and the Lion (Shaw), Fedra (Racine), Sister Beatrice (Maeterlinck) that became the beloved Suite no.3, the music to Turandot (Gozzi) that was transformed to Suite no.4, while Hassan (Flecker) became Suite no.6, and he wrote music for great Shakespeare dramas such as Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Storm (ended as an opera), Antony and Cleopatra (Suite no.7), Julius Caesar and Macbeth (these two for radio), and The Winter’s Tale, from the music to Suite no.5 which is recorded on this CD.

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