Swedish composer André Chini is born in the mountains of Southern part of France and his people are very similar to the Same in tradition, closeness to nature and music formula. Chini on this CD interprets the jojk chanting soul into a contemporary orchestral piece with lots of rite percussion and clang of the unseen. He also presents the mystery of Arctic light in another great piece - Norrsken, as well as transforming the myths and stories from the North into other of his chamber music pieces.

As an extra bonus we also hear traditional recordings of jojk chanting by four different Same voices.

Anouchka Mukherjee made her national debut as a singer in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, in 2007 singing Nicolai Medtner´s Sonate Vocalise. Anouchka has received The Agnes MacClean Vocal Scholarship from The University of St Andrews and a GTA Vocal Scholarship from the University of Missouri Kansas City towards a DMA in Voice Performance.

She has performed as a vocal soloist/concertsinger in the USA, Scotland, England and Sweden performing amongst other works Händel´s Messiah, Mozart´s Mass in C-Minor, Pergolesi´s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn´s Hymn of Praise, Bach´s St Matthew Passion, Magnificat and Mass in B-Minor, Marzellina in Beethoven´s Fidelio and Nella in Puccini´s Gianni Schicci, as well as a range of concerts where opera arias, scenes from operas, lieder and songs have been performed.

This CD contains a concert version for Baritone Saxophone and organ of the St Eskil Mass, originally composed for Soloists, Choir and instrumental ensemble. It is available on nosag CD 106.

As a musician, specialising in the Baritone Saxophone, and as a singer, Egebjer tours Sweden and other parts of Europe. In the last few years, he has also toured North America. He has for many years played Saxophone interpretations of hymns for religious services broadcasted by the Swedish Radio. One lasting result of this is the friendship and many collaborations with organist Åke Skommar, as on this CD.

Boo Egebjer is also available on
Missa Pro Vivis (nosag CD 014),
Som någon viskar i mitt öra (nosag CD 066), and
Med Psaltare, Harpa och lite Norrsken (nosag CD 138).

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Sandra Brucker, pianist, originally from Arad in Transilvania. She teaches from 1998 at Lilla Akademien in Stockholm.
Tommy Strand, 14, student, is studying piano with Sandra Brucker at Lilla Akademien.

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the Swedish help organisation Den Öppna Dörren (The Open Door), opening a door to homeless or poor people in Sweden, or

The Churches´ World Foundation´s money raising for stopping desert spreading in Mauretania.

Buying any of these CDs, or both, gives ALL the money to the mentioned organisations; CD156 supports DEN ÖPPNA DÖRREN and CD157 collects money to MAURETANIEN.

On these CDs, master flutist Kinga Práda is playing together with legendary Opera singer Solveig Faringer, who is also accompanied by pianist Carl Axel Dominique and Stockholm Chamber Wind Quintet. Dominique and the quintet also present the first ever recording of a Sextet by French composer Louise Farranc.

On this CD, master flutist Kinga Práda is working together with Hungarian cellist Emese Jánky, playing very fresh, specially arranged pieces by among others Villa-Lobos and Honegger, solo flutist Mats Rodius is presenting a rich in expression version of the great suite on La Folia by Marin Marais and also great performances of music by J.S. Bach and Telemann.
All pieces are surrounded by atmospheare and environmental sounds, well in tune with the music, such as goats and sheep in a meadow with bees and flies swirling arround, and seagulls in the distance, we take an old horse coach to the nearby village, visiting Mass in the little church and return out in the open fields, listening to birds singing and feeling the warmth of the sun, while listening to beautiful music and making a contribution to Barnens Hopp.

On this rich, almost 80 minutes filled CD, master flutists from the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Stockholm Andreas Alin, Jan Bengtson, Stig Bengtson, Bengt Christiansson and Eje Kaufelt plays together with free lance soloists Peter Lindblom, Kinga Práda, Björn Rapp and Mats Rodius. The organist of Sollentuna St Erik´s church Per Olsson and an Ensemble from Music School Lilla Akademien completes this interesting production containing music by Inge Ingemarson, Filip Olson, J.J. Quantz, J.S.Bach, Mats Rodius, F. Chopin, Moses Pergament, E.Grieg, L.E.Larsson, Stellan Sagvik, Erland von Koch and Jaques Ibèrt.

On this CD, master flutists from the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Stockholm Stig Bengtson, Bengt Christiansson and Eje Kaufeldt plays together with free lance soloists Kinga Práda, Josefin Nilsson, Kristina Kaufeldt, Josefin Hägvide, Alisa Tserkovnaja and Mats Rodius. The organist of Maria Magdalena church Mathias Kjellgren completes this interesting production containing music by J.S.Bach, Mats Rodius, Gabriel Fauré, Maria Theresia von Paradis and Georg Philipp Telemann.

These CDs are produced in collaboration with Mats Rodius and FIM, Föreningen Ideell Musik (The Society for Idealistic Music), working with collecting support money to different help projects all around the world. All benefit from this CD goes to BIAL - a children´s help organisation working together with EFS and the Swedish Church.

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Grandert: Litet stycke för waldhorn och piano Part 1

All arrangements are free to use, and it is the wish of Mats Rodius´ that all benefit generated from using these scores and selling of CDs are sent to charity from your own choice - international as well as national aid programs and support organisations are some possible goals for the money.

Please also visit the FIM homepage at http://fim.just.nu

These CDs are produced in collaboration with Mats Rodius and FIM, Föreningen Ideell Musik (The Society for Idealistic Music), working with collecting support money to different help projects all around the world.

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H. Purcell: Didos klagan

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Michel Legrand: The Summer Knows

On this CD Rodius himself arranged for flute ensemble the great Passacaglia by JS Bach, and also twelve of Bach´s choral hymns, some of them with soprano solo by Pia Lindblad. Some of the finest among Swedish flutists are playing on this CD, the leading flute players of the Stockholm Philharmonic and also retired solo flutists from both the Radio Symphonic Orchestra and from the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

On this CD Rodius himself arranged for flute ensemble music by JS Bach, Chopin, and Stig Bengtson contributes with adaptions of muisc by Grieg and Swedish Lars-Erik Larsson. Also we can hear an Elegi by Moses Pergament. Some of the finest among Swedish flutists are playing on this CD, the leading flute players of the Stockholm Philharmonic and also retired solo flutists from both the Radio Symphonic Orchestra and from the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

On this CD, master flutists Andreas Alin, Jan Bengtson, Stig Bengtson, Ulrika Björkman, Bengt Christiansson, Erik Frieberg, Anders Jonhäll, Karin Lekteus, Kinga Práda, and Theresia Ståhle are playing great flute pieces by Boismortier, Mozart, Kuhlau and J.S. Bach in settings for three, four or five flutes.

On this CD, master flutists Karin Albons, Andreas Alin, Jesper Alm, Jan Bengtson, Stig Bengtson, Ulrika Björkman Jeanette Bylfors, Erik Frieberg, Karin Lekteus, Niousha Poniatowski, Kinga Práda, Mats Rodius, Teresia Ståhle - and harpist Margareta Bengtson are playing great flute pieces by three composer members from FIM - Mats Rodius, Johnny Grandert and Jan Hammarström.

The rich, almost 80 minutes filled CD contains the debut of young talented pianist Karin Haglund and also the great soprano Anna Lindkvist. The flutist Kinga Práda and an Ensemble from Music School Lilla Akademien completes this interesting production containing music by Peterson-Berger, Grieg, von Koch, Rodius, Sagvik, Seymer, Rodriguez, Debussy, Ibèrt, Franck & Schubert.

The most significant caracteristics of the music of Gunnar Bucht can be simplyfied in one word - orchestral. His music is always powerful, dynamic and filled with colours, even if the "ensemble" is a solo piano or two violins - you almost hear an orchestra playing. This is not in any way meaning that his music is always loud and heavy - on the contrary; few ensembles can play as soft and quiet as a full orchestra, or for that matter - a choir. You get the full spectrum of expression from the chamber music of Gunnar Bucht, who by the way is most known as composer of gigantic orchestral pieces ;-)

All stylistic comparisons aside, this music is ultimately very personal and specifically Agdurian one could say. The melodies are strikingly songful and you almost get an impression of the violin pronouncing invisible lyrics. Sometimes we are moved to the telling of a fairy tale, an atmosphere of once upon a time… However these shadings always gather together in the beauty of the violin melody; this expression is always at the center.

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Agdur: Beate

In 1995 he came third in the international guitar competition at Gargnano, Italy. Jim has given concerts at music festivals in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and Luxemburg. He teaches at the Danderyd Kulturskola outside Stockholm and freelances as a soloist as well as a chamber musician.

On this CD he plays known music by Torroba, Barrioa Mangoré, Piazzolla and Ponce and also new music by Sergio Assad.

Please visit Jakob Henriques homepage.

Texts attributed to Saint Birgitta, in addition to poems by Arsenij Tarkovskij, George Stiernhielm and the Gotlandic poet Gustaf Larsson, have been set to music.

Kerstin Viberg is a lyric colorature soprano. She has sung the leading roles in Igor Strawinsky’s The Nightingale, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, E. Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, W.A. Mozart’s The Impresario and the role of Venus in György Ligeti’s The Great Macabre. Also active as a romance singer. Works as a teacher of singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Kjell Bygdén is an accordeonist. Educated at Trossingen State College of Music (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen) in Germany under professor Hugo Noth. He has worked as a theatre musician, soloist and chamber musician, recently in collaboration with bass singers in a production of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise.

The release also contains a thought-filled thick book in DVD-booklet formata, carrying artistical photos as well as the musical and philosophical thinking of Ladislaus Horatius - in Sweden he is most known because of his provocative pulling of the emergency break onboard the fast train X2000, claiming the speed of man has reached its limits. Ladislaus hasn´t...

The recordings are made under the supervision of the composer.

The recordings are made under the supervision of the composer.

The Unseen Present (1993)
Organic Music No2 "The Uncreated light" (1995)
Gryningsmusik (Dawn Music) (1980)
La Terza Via (The Third Way) (2000)

They are all quite unique and without parallels in the cello literature. Including them in one’s repertoire should be a challenge to every cellist.

Olov Franzén´s compositions encompass all sorts of vocal and instrumental combinations, from solo pieces to large orchestra and choir. His style has been described as "more modern than Modernism, though not difficult to understand," perhaps because his gravity and engagement is always more important than any musical style.

He is quite concerned about the great problems of the world today, with its escalating environmental pollution, violence, and wars. To counter this, he wants to enrich the spiritual values of life in every way.

The soloists are
Anders Bondeman(born in 1937 and is considered the creator of the modern school of improvisationin Sweden, and also one of the greates interpreters of Bach´s music in our time.

Michael Waldenby (b1953) Studied with Alf Linder, Carin Gille-Rybrant, Anders Bondeman and others. Choir master at S:ta Clara 1979 – 2002, then and presently organist at S:t Jacob. Waldenby is mainly a composer of songs. He has composed, and in some cases published, numerous works for solo, choir, orchestra, and the organ.

Anders Bondeman is heard also on nosag CD 097, The Organ of Gamleby Church.

Michael Waldenby is heard also as a conductor on nosag CD 2078, Requiem, by Gabriella Gullin.

My music is mine, but I inhabit a musical room where early memories of popular songs from the fifties; piano exercises; concerts; music school; pop-groups; choirs; music colleges; theatres; Swedish ‘folk parks’; nightclubs; studios, and composition studies co-exist with a constantly present radio. All of these things are input that, of course, affect the output. To me ‘tradition’ is something omnipresent. You can stroll around in it like an old city; take a closer look at the buildings, or just walk about in the everchanging scenery, lost in ones own thoughts. You could chose not to see it, but it´ s still there, regardless.
At times I feel the need to distance myself from my music. I find it helpful to let the music rest for a while. When I do that, mercifully I remember very little of the compositional process. If I don’t let it rest for a while then there’s always the risk that memories of composing the piece might end up blocking my ears. I try to listen intuitively. . Of course I do remember what it was I was trying to achieve, and the special moments when the pieces started coming alive and began communicating with me.

Davor Kajfes and Peter Schuback have been working together for two years with this kind of direct creation, musicianship, composing, or what can even be called improvisation. They prefer the term "impositions".

The repertory on this combined CD+DVD set is from the latter part of the period object for the research. We find music by Elfrida Andrée, Knut Håkanson, Birger Anrep-Nording, Lille Bror Söderlundh and the mostly in Paris working Gösta Nystroem.

The DVD in the set contains a short documentation of the recording sessions and also full length Andante quasi recitativo by Elfrida Andréee and Lille Bror Söderlundh´s Nattvisa till Lindelin.

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Elfrida Andrée: Andante quasi recitativo

The repertory on this CD is mainly classical, with the great 38 min Mozart Divertimento as main course. But we find also music by Gothenburg born jazz pianist Bengt Hallberg who composed several works for classical ensembles, among them the here recorded String Trio.

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B Hallberg: from "String Trio - Scherzando"

Words of Realness is a philosophic, spriritual and very real work, where the composer and the author meet in a various styles music. The texts are included as a poems book in the package. Spoon Jackson participates on the CD by reading some of his poems (the recordings were made in secret, inside the prison walls with not allowed equipment).

Words of Realness will be performed during June 2009 in the prison housing Spoon Jackson, by the same artists that recorded this CD.

2007 privided the choir Stockholm Singers and its conductor Bo Aurehl with an opportunity to celebrate Lucia in the great hall of the Nordiska muséet in Stockholm. The atmosphere was magical, the audience was captivated and a repeat the following year was a forgone conclusion.

This recording featuring soloist Mezzosoprano Susann Végh allows us to recapture these enchanted moments.

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Trad: Sankta Lucia

The Boys Choir is nowadays associated with classical choir music in an English tradition, a change which was made possible by allowing the men’s choir to become a permanent part of the choir. Earlier the men’s choir had only accompanied the boys’ choir on certain occasions. By uniting boys’ and men’s voices at the same time as alto boys were exchanged for counter tenors, conductor Roland Nilsson gave The Stockholm Boys’ Choir a new tonal identity, a new timbre that opened the way to a new exciting repertoire.

Each year the choir gives a large number of concerts in Sweden, participate on TV and at the Opera House in Stockholm. The choir also goes on tour regularly. The choir has visited USA and most countries in Europe several times.

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Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium

Anouchka Mukherjee is a dramatic Soprano with broad resourses of expression - from the big drama of Wagner and Richard Strauss to close-ups in music by Alban Berg and playful young girls from Mozart Operas. nosag records will later this year release a solo perfomance with this amazing singer.

Baritone Rolf Bromme we have presented earlier on nosag records on CD (nosag CD 070 and nosag CD 118) and here he shows an even broader register when he performs music by as different composers as Handel, Bononcini, Josephson and Sibelius.

She made her first appearance in Stockholm in 1960 and continued performing as a soloist with orchestras and in collaboration with the Swedish Radio. She toured in Germany, Poland and all of Scandinavia with many good reviews.

In 1974 she started working as piano teacher at the College of Music in Gothenburg where she also got professor´s title. In Stockholm, where she now recides, Mrs Czajkowski is continuing teaching advanced piano students and several of her disciples reached very high level of performing, almost as high as the teacher...

From 1953 until his tragic death in 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld held the position as Secretary-General with the United Nations. He died in an air crash close to Ndola, while flying on the mission to negotiate a cease-fire between the Katanga and United Nation forces. After his death, the manuscript of Vägmärken-Markings was found in his home in New York.

The Outlaw is one of Strindberg’s earlier works. The play is set on Island during the Viking era. It opened at the Dramatiska Teatern in Stockholm 1871. The Outlaw, the opera composed by Inger Wikström had it’s world première at Confidencen, Castle theatre of Ulriksdal. This CD includes five scenes from the live recording of the original cast.

The response from the young audiences around the country instilled Wikström’s determination to continue to write music for both children performers and audiences. She has since her début let several literary classics come to life on stage, set to her music, such as James M. Barries much loved story of Peter Pan. Here distilled into a piano suite we can follow the adventures of Peter Pan.

MUSIC: INGER WIKSTRÖM
Markings/Vägmärken - Suite for Baritone and Piano
Text Dag Hammarskjöld
Michael Bartov baritone
Inger Wikström piano

Highlights from the Opera The Outlaw - Den Fredlöse
Text August Strindberg
Thorfinn – Erik Saedén
Valgerd – Catharina Olsson
Gunlöd – Chesne Ryman
Orm – Bengt Krantz
Gunnar – Anders Andersson
The Messenger – Björn Ohlsson
Nordic Chamber Opera Orchestra
Conductor Inger Wikström