Nordic Violin Music

Annemarie Åström · Sonja Fräki · Emil Holmström · Agnes Tschetschulin

2010 · ABCD 347

Credits

Performers: Annemarie Åström — ViolinSonja Fräki — PianoEmil Holmström — Piano
Composers: Agnes TschetschulinTor AulinChristian SindingBengt Carlson

About this release

Nordic Violin Music
Tschetschulin - Aulin - Sinding - Carlson
Annemarie Åström violin
Sonja Fräki & Emil Holmström piano
The new album Nordic Violin Music contains works for violin and piano that have remained hidden until now by four Nordic composers, and it is now time to bring them to the fore.
Among the "forgotten gems of music" selected for the album by violinist Annemarie Åström, the world premieres include Berceuse by Finnish violinist-composer Agnes Tschetschulin (1859-1942) and Sonata for violin and piano, op. 6, where Emil Holmström is heard as pianist.
The other two works on the album are the Swedish Tor Aulin's (1866-1914) best-known chamber music composition Fyra Akvareller, which is a classic in Swedish violin literature, and the Norwegian Christian Sinding's (1856-1941) Romance in D major, op. 79 no. 2, an attractively and skillfully constructed piece of chamber music for violin and piano, in which each instrument in turn gets space for a more soloist approach.

Tracks

1.Berceuse (1888)comp. Agnes Tschetschulin (1859-1942)ISRC FIABA12004282:56
Fyra Akvareller (Four Aquarelles) (1899)
2.Idyllcomp. Tor AulinISRC FIABA12004293:41
3.Humoreskcomp. Tor AulinISRC FIABA12004303:43
4.Vaggsångcomp. Tor AulinISRC FIABA12004313:53
5.Polskacomp. Tor AulinISRC FIABA12004323:55
6.Romanze Op. 79 No. 2 in D major (1907)comp. Christian Sinding (1856-1941)ISRC FIABA12004337:09
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat minor Op. 6 (1918)
7.Allegro, molto moderatocomp. Bengt Carlson (1890-1953)ISRC FIABA120043412:26
8.Allegro vivacecomp. Bengt Carlson (1890-1953)ISRC FIABA12004357:58
9.Lentocomp. Bengt Carlson (1890-1953)ISRC FIABA12004367:34
10.Finale, Allegro vivacecomp. Bengt Carlson (1890-1953)ISRC FIABA12004378:05

Reviews

Suomalaismuusikot tekivät erinomaisen teemalevyn
”Viulisti Annemarie Åström (s. 1977) on levyttänyt tyylikkään kokonaisuuden pohjoismaista viulumusiikkia.
[…] Levyn klassikkopuolta edustaa ruotsalaisen Tor Aulinin Neljä akvarellia , joissa Åströmin Guarneri soi tavattoman kauniisti; siinä on samettinen, suorastaan nuhainen ääni, josta Åström häpeilemättömästi nautiskelee. Legatot ovat sulavia, vibrato tyylikäs ja glissandoja kääntyy hyvällä maulla. Ylärekisteri syttyy loisteeseen lähes aina……
Yle Uudet levyt · Janne Koskinen
Viulu hemaisevan romanttisena
”Lumoavaa pohjoismaista viuluromantiikkaa, joka tarjoaa löytöjä suurelle yleisölle ja asiantuntijoille… musiikinhistoriamme tähtihetki.”
Veijo
Helsingin Sanomat · Veijo Murtomäki
There’s a good balance between the known and the unknown
in this release, and it’s almost always the latter that
gets the collecting juices flowing. So let’s take Bengt
Carlson first. Born in 1890, he studied in Helsinki and then,
before the First World War, in Paris as a student of d’Indy.
Review/Arvio: MusicWeb International
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