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nosag CD 165ANOUCHKA MUKHERJEE / JAN EYRON - Soprano

Anouchka Mukherjee is a dramatic Soprano with broad resourses of expression - from the big drama of Wagner and Puccini to close-ups in music by Swede Gösta Nystroem.

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.

Legendary accompanist Jan Eyron has in a long career both as soloist and accompanist performed all over the world from The Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow to Carnegie Hall and Covent Garden, Royal Albert Hall and Queen Elisabeth Hall, accompanying singers such as Birgit Nilsson, Nicolai Gedda, Ingvar Wixell and Elisabeth Söderström.

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Puccini: from TOSCA - Vissi d´arte


   
 		 
nosag CD 021Bengt Nordfors - THE ANDRÉE EXPEDITION

Dominick Argento’s big song cycle for voice and piano about the North Pole balloon expedition that ended in disaster 1897, and some music from that time with exploring themes. Three premiered artists working together for the first time.
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The Flight aborted


   
 		 
nosag CD 070Bromme/Práda - SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT

Rolf Bromme, baritone from Stockholm, sings some of his favourite songs with pianist Sandra Brucker at this Saterday Afternoon Concert in the Anglian Church of Stockholm, a concert rather typical for the church´s programs. Flutist Kinga Práda plays some virtuoso solos, by Doppler and also the famous Carmen Fantasie by Borne, and she is also playing together with Bromme in music by John Alan Griffiths, English composer living in Sweden.

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.

Kinga Práda Sagvik, flutist, Stockholm, originally from Cluj, Transilvania, is working as free lance flutist and plays with great virtuosity all the classical romantic and modern flute repertoir. Kinga is frequently making concerts together with several of the finest musicians of Sweden and she will in 2003 release two solo CDs on the label nosag records (nosag CD 029 and 082).
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Griffiths: Sweet England


   
 		 
nosag CD 140Solos & Duets - ANOUCHKA MUKHERJEE/ROLF BROMME

Two great singers presenting a rich concert program recorded in the English Church in Stockholm, Sweden.

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.

The singers are on this CD working with two pianists:
legendary Jan Eyron and young and very talented Samuel Skönberg
in this rich program of great varity.

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Bononcini: Per la Gloria

Puccini: Vissi d´arte


   
 		 
nosag CD 124Kerstin Viberg / Kjell Bygdén - IM BRECHTHAUS

Bertolt Brecht spent several years in exile in the Nordic countries. The compositions of this CD are from poems written during this period. He worked in close collaboration with the composers Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill and Paul Dessau. This music has often been performed in theatrical style, but here a lyrical version is presented for soprano and accordeon, in the original keys, as written by the composers.

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.

Since a couple of years Kerstin and Kjell work together as a duo.

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Eisler/Brecht: Das Lied vom kleinen Wind


   
 		 
nosag CD 010Nils Crona - PROFONDO

Songs by Rachmaninov, Tjajkovskij, Mussorgskij, Sjostakovitj, (all sung in Russian) and Beethoven performed by imposingly deep Bass, Nils Crona, listening Ukrainian pianist Nonna Shilo and a dark deep choir.
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Symeon´s praise


   
 		 
nosag CD 019Druve - MENDELSSOHN: DUETS AND ORGAN

17 duets and great organ pieces by Mendelssohn with two young voices with very personal timbre, the twin sisters Druve, and a listening, deeply supporting pianist and organ artist. Listen also to the Druve Twins versions of Schumann duets, combined with some of Schumann´s most loved piano music on nosag 046.
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Blåklockorna


   
 		 
nosag CD 046Druve - SCHUMANN: DUETS AND PIANO MUSIC

Duets and great piano pieces by Robert Schumann performed by the Druve twins, a duo that gave us duets by Mendelssohn on nosag CD 019 "...exactly the way it sounded when Felix and his sisters sang at home - pure and somewhat naïve." according to critics. Now they collaborate with very personal pianist Lars Hägglund, who also presents some of Schumanns most wellknown piano music, but in a way you NEVER heard them played. How about an almost 8 minutes of Träumerei, for example?
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Första mötet


   
 		 
nosag CD 091SOLVEIG FARINGER/LENA JOHNSON - Peterson-Berger och Poeterna

It is commonly acccepted that Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942) is one of Swedish music history’s best known personalities - as composer, critic, cultural debater, opera playwright, translator etc. The selection on this record takes us from the composer’s very earliest songs (late 1880’s) to the last Karlfeldt songs which were written for the poet’s final collection of poems Hösthorn from 1927.

Soprano Solveig Faringer´s versatility is evidenced by a career that has alternated since her debut in 1973 between different genres such as chamber music, romances, opera, sacred music, and folk music.
Pianist Lena Johnson grew up in the province of Jämtland, and was therefore already as a child exposed to the music of Peterson-Berger, which has since then been an oft-recurring part of her repertoire.


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Peterson-Berger/Huch:Vorfrühling


   
 		 
nosag CD 018Eleanor Granath - VILAN VID VÄGEN/REST ALONG THE ROAD

Warm, intimate and sincere poe put to meditative, humble and christian music with Eleanor Granath, Mezzo, and Berth Lideberg, Song & piano.
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Trons spröda stämmor


   
 		 
nosag CD 068Margareta Hallin - JAG TÄNKER PÅ...

The songs of world famous Swedish opera soprano and composer Margareta Hallin are written on texts by well-known Swedish poets, like Ferlin, Martinson, Ekelöf and others. On this CD we hear the composer herself performing together with great clarinet player Kjell Fagéus, also playing Margareta Hallin´s Cadenza for solo clarinet. This very lyrical recording, with some suddenly surprising sharp edges, is a gem for all lovers of contemporary chamber music with contact with tradition.
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Guds födelsedag


   
 		 
nosag CD 040Helén Johansson - TELEPATHIC HEART2HEART

Again she strikes with a NEW amazing softfunk album, Helén Johansson, Swedish songwriter/singer who collaborates with very skilled arranger Stefan Pettersson and presents her second CD (after nosag/GASON CD 036 "Too Good to be True") that shows how the queen of funky Småland embrazes us all with her music - TELEPATHICALLY!!!
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Helén: Cat´s Dance


   
 		 
nosag CD 036Helén Johansson - TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

She is almost too good to be true, Helén Johansson, Swedish songwriter/singer who collaborates with very skilled arranger Stefan Pettersson and presents a CD with a rich output, emotional, humouristic and very rythmical music gripping from upbeat funk via solemn meditative ballads to almost highlife mood. A splendid album for dancing AND thought. Check also her great NEW album "TELEPATHIC HEART 2 HEART" nosag/GASON CD 040
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Helén Johansson: Boo to the flu


   
 		 
nosag CD 154JOHAN HAMMERTH - Den vilde pojkens sånger - 4 Kärlekssånger

Two Song Suites by Swedish composer Johan Hammerth.
The Wild Boy´s Songs have a role model in reality. In 1800 a boy was captured and it was alleged that he had grown up alone in the wild amongst wolves. In his composition, Johan Hammerth has had in mind the mysteriousness surrounding the uncivilized boy. The vocal parts seeks simplicity and clarity whilst the orchestration builds rather more on clangs than melody.

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

4 Kärlekssånger: Fjärde sången


   
 		 
nosag CD 063Gunnar Klum - Schubert Lieder

Gunnar Klum is a young Swedish baritone who gives a new, fresh aproach to some of the great songs of Schubert - Ständchen, Die Forelle, An die Musik and many others - here collaborating with Stockholm Guitar Trio, thus giving the music a totally unexpected warmth, intimity and feeling, very far from the traditional way of performing this repertoar.
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Schubert: Skolie


   
 		 
nosag CD 001Musikgruppen RAA - RAARITETER (2CDs)

Folklore from all parts of the world, except the Antarctic, with a six man group that played ”world music” long before the word was born. Rythmical Balcanic, smooth Asian, funny Nordic, elegant British, orientalic Arabian, strict American and much more. The members, Bert Kolker, Kaj Magnusson, Anders Rabe, Stellan Sagvik, Göran Stark and Arnold Svensson, with guests Ulla-Carin Nyquist and Claes Wang, play more than 50 different instruments from every possible cultural spheare, excluded the Antarctic.
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L´oud


   
 		 
nosag CD 008Stellan Sagvik - AFTER THE PASSION

Sacred music for voices, organ, string quartet & choir, by Swedish composer Stellan Sagvik; Shakespeare text ; "My Mistress’ Eyes", Swedish poems to music; "...amandi", a great Song Cycle with words from Song of Songs "Canticum Szeretni Canticum", and a short, amazing choral piece; "abri".
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Sagvik: from Szeretni Canticum, I am coming


   
 		 
nosag CD 003Stellan Sagvik - CHAMBER MUSIC I

Chamber music by composer Stellan Sagvik
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Marsch for sax and string quartet


   
 		 
nosag CD 004Stellan Sagvik - CHAMBER MUSIC II

Chamber music by composer Stellan Sagvik
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from ...amandi,


   
 		 
nosag CD 039Svärd Mannerstedt/Müller Roos - INSPIRED WOMEN

The woman as a composer and as a source of inspiration is the theme of this CD. It is the result of an active and stimulating research in order to find music connected with this idea.The music we finally decided to record was chosen because of its inspiring qualities... During the research were also found fascinating stories to read about the different lives of the persons whose music are performed in these recordings by eminent soprano Eva Svärd-Mannerstedt who really USES the lyrics in her performance, assisted by very following and colouring pianist Anette Müller-Roos who is also represented as a composer with small piano pieces.
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Woodforde-Finden: Till I Wake


   
 		 
nosag CD 143DEBORAH HENRIKSSON - Simple Gifts

”Simple Gifts” combines different kinds of songs in order to come closer to universal experience, in order to move the listener. Musical expression using the human voice is as old and as varied as humanity. Thus the songs have been carefully chosen to express universal truths and experiences with which we can all identify: the common denominator being that life is a gift, that we are all on the same journey, and that personal truth can be found by looking and listening within.

DEBORAH HENRIKSSON is an American singer and music teacher who has lived and given concerts in Sweden for many years.

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Williams/Bowles: Three


   
 		 
nosag CD 104INGER WIKSTRÖM - OPERA: En dåres försvarstal

The chamber opera The Confession of a Fool is based on the novel by August Strindberg. It tells the story of the passionate love between Siri von Essen and himself. The book was originally written in french with the title Le plaidoyer d´un fou. By order of Strindberg it was not to be published in Sweden as long as Siri was alive. The libretto is not only based on The Confession of a Fool, but also on the love-letters between August and Siri published as He and She, and some of the dialogue is taken from Strindberg´s own plays. Siri played a very important role in Strindberg´s life and writing. She was his model and inspiration, his ideal and de-mon. This opera is about the dramatical marriage between two strong individuals, who´s love and hatred made it´s way into great literature. The worldpremière of The Confession of a Fool took place at the Vasa Theatre in Stockholm August 10th 2002.

MUSIC: INGER WIKSTRÖM
TEXT: AGUST STRINDBERG
LIBRETTO MIRIAM GUTMAN
MICHAEL BARTOV, BARITONE
GUNILLA BARTOV,SOPRANO
INGER WIKSTRÖM, PIANIST
PRODUCTION NORDIC CHAMBER OPERA

”In Inger Wikström we have a new, real opera composer. Her music has vitality, fantasy and an astonishingly broad musical span.” (DN)
Michael Bartov ... ”a display of beautiful, lyrical tone. ” (Opera)
Gunilla Bartov ...”an expressive voice with dramatic resources.” (Opera)

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Inger Wikström: from The Confession of a Fool


   
 		 
nosag CD 164INGER WIKSTRÖM, composer, pianist, conductor

INGER WIKSTRÖM, composer, pianist, conductor
Inger Wikström´s musical artistry has won the enthusiastic appraisal of audiences and critics throughout the world. She started performing in public at the age of 8. At 16 she played for the first time with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and some years later she made successful debuts in London, Berlin and New York. Since then she has played in most European countries, USA, Latin America, Russia, Israel, Africa, China, Japan, and Australia. She has received several international awards a.o. the order of Rio Branco, the Villa-Lobos medal, the Bartók medal, and the Adelaide Ristori Prize. In 1977 she founded the Nordic Conservatory of Music, and in 1980 she founded the Nordic Chamber Opera.

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

Peter Pan Fairy-tale Suite
Piano Inger Wikström

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Inger Wikström: Narrspelet / Fool´s play


   
 		 
nosag CD 083Musik: Jan Wallgren - VANDRING

This CD contains Jan Wallgren´s four main chamber music compositions for string quartet and solists.



JAN WALLGREN (1935 - 1996) Jan was born in Oslo and grew up in Stockholm. He devoted himself for many years mainly to jazz and toured with his own trio as well as playing in several different jazz orchestras, and his piano playing and compositions marked the quartet that Bengt Ernryd led during the middle of the 60s. Jan has appeared as a soloist and composer with among others the Swedish Radio Jazz Group and the Polish Radios Big band, andhe is documented both on LP and CD.

Aside from working as a piano soloist, orchestra leader, and theatre musician, Jan taught singers and musicians, classically trained pianists, and music students. He wrote theatre and film music, and composed an opera, "Balagantjik," that was premiered at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1986. Among several important compositions, his Requiem, "För levande och döda" (For Living and Dead), set to texts by the poet Tomas Tranströmer, stands out.

Jan’s final composition for The Stockholm String Quartet, "Vandring," with texts taken from Dag Hammarskjöld’s book "Vägmärken" (Markings), was finished in April 1996, two months before his death.


with
Ingrid Tobiasson, mezzo
Olle Persson, baritone
Jesper Harryson, oboe
Stockholm String Quartet


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Wallgren: from Six Blueprints: Ostinato

   
 		 
nosag CD 100BJÖlRN ERLANDSSSON - Grönskan

Lennart Sjögren is one of the finest poets of Sweden. He is born and living on the island Öland outside the Swedish east coast. In his poems nature is always present as the fundamental base for all of Man´s doing. Animals frequently pass by and all of his texts are filled with a dark and sincere environmental mood.

Now pianist/composer Björn Erlandsson put some of these poems to music. He scored for Mezzo Soprano (here sung by amazing Margaretha Melz, also appearing on nosag CDs 003 and 008), Saxophone Quartet (Hässlö Saxofonkvartett) and piano (the composer).
Erlandsson also wrote four Summer poems for piano and four saxophones, very well matching the beautiful and tender mood of this sweet CD.



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Sparvhöken


   
 		 
nosag CD 2108STINA-BRITTA MELANDER - Från 14 till 80 år (2CD)

This is a double CD with Sweden´s all time - we dare to say it - best and absolutely most talented coloratura soprano Stina-Britta Melander. This filled production (2 and a half hour of music) presents to us an astonnishing artist all through her long, and still on-going, singing life - From 14 to 80 years (and beyond)! We start with the pre-mature 14 year old girl from North of Sweden in her first wax recording in 1938, and we follow her fantastic development through small and more bigger roles on the operatic stages, via operetta, chanson, lieder and schlager, up to her celebration concert at 80 years of age in 2004.

This is an amazing audial document that no-one must lack in the CD collection!

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Strauss: Amor (1982)


   
 		 
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