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2019-04-01 02:56:51
Sten Frykberg With The Swedish Radio Symphony Play Music Of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger – 1948 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Soros Flowers (arr. Orch.) – Swedish Radio Symphony – Sten Frykberg, cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Sweden this week for some radio performances of less-known works from Sweden with the Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Sten Frykberg in this 1948 radio broadcast via Sveriges... The post appeared first on Past Daily.
2018-03-12 02:26:59
I hadn’t even heard of this composer before a conductor friend suggested I listen to this piec
2017-03-29 18:10:10
Near the Peterson-Berger home in Frösö, Sweden On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday April 1st, 5–6 pm… It almost seemed as if Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was never at home. Born 150 years ago, he grew up in a small northern Swedish town, Umea, nearer to Lapland than to Stockholm. He felt hemmed in and he longed for the wider world. When he discovered Edvard Grieg’s mix of moody lyricism, myth, and folk culture, he was transfixed. He knew that he must become a composer. He left Umea for Stockholm, studied organ and composition at the Royal College of Music, and played piano. Still, he chafed against the worldview of teachers who wouldn’t hear of the modernist Grieg, let alone his other great musical love, Wagner. So he moved to Germany and studied in Dresden. He traveled to Bayreuth to immerse himself in the excruciatingly romantic operatic world of Wagner. […]
2017-02-04 02:10:32
I have broad, perhaps somewhat eclectic taste in music. This is by accident rather than design. Most of the genres outside what gets airplay on popular radio I have stumbled upon while on other paths. Our culture doesn’t really expose young people en masse to much more than current popular music. And that’s a shame. So it feels like a good idea to do my bit to mitigate our cultural musical myopia. Below are links to 28 works of classical music composed by artists born in February whose works I have enjoyed – one for each day of the month. Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe Emil Hartmann (Feb 1, 1836) Felix Mendelssohn (Feb 3, 1809) Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (Feb 3, 1736) Émile Prudent (Feb 3, 1817) Ole Bornemann Bull (Feb 5, 1810) Wilhelm […]
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