Alfven - Symphony No. 5, Andante religioso | Naxos 8557612

Alfven - Symphony No. 5, Andante religioso

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557612

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th January 2007

Contents

Artists

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Niklas Willén

Works

Alfven, Hugo

Revelation Cantata, op.31
» Andante religioso
Symphony no.5 in A minor, op.54

Artists

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Niklas Willén

About

A gifted musician, writer and watercolourist, Hugo Alfvén is regarded in his native Sweden as the most significant composer after Berwald. 
 
The Fifth Symphony occupied Alfvén throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and draws on themes from his ambitious 1923 ballet The Mountain King. The first movement has sometimes been performed on its own, but the symphony is relatively rarely heard as a whole. The Andante religioso is Alfvén’s arrangement for harp, celesta and strings of an intermezzo from his Revelation Cantata, Op. 31. 
 
This disc completes the Naxos cycle of the complete Alfvén Symphonies.

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