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.

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.

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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.

Four love songs speaks about words and feelings like relationship, love, emotions, fragile, gentle, dissonant cross-roads, dark silhouettes, syncopated rhythm, rhymes, united you and I and repeated mantras - All that is left is you and me.

The amazing singers Olle Persson and Hannah Holgersson colours each song cycle with great variety in expression and emotion and together with the superb playing of the Jönköping sinfonietta and its leader Jan Stigmer we get an expressive experience far beyond the every day concert.

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Den vilde pojkens sånger: Nionde sången

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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.

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"

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...