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nosag CD 3115ALLGÉN: Sonata for Solo Violin - JOAR SKORPEN (2CD+1 DVD)

This is the world premier recording of the almost two hour Sonata for Solo Violin by Swedish excentric composer Claude Loyola Allgén - this is music that, like the composer´s String Quartet #2 (nosag CD 114), had an enormous impact on the listeners when it was performed, now by young violinist Joar Skorpen in 2000. This is a recording from that very live concert - on two CDs and with an extra bonus: Parts of the general rehearsal with all the 25 music stands, the broken string and Skorpen´s struggle captured on a DVD.
Most of the musical oevre of Claude Loyola Allgén was unperformed for a very long time, considered "crazy" or "unplayable". When this talented artist plays the complicated score it turns out to be filled with great beauty, fantasm, composer´s skill and sentiment. This is, like the recording of the String Quartet #2, a historical - and artistical - really great deed, indeed!


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Allgén: from 3rd movement of Sonata for Solo Violin


   
 		 
nosag CD 097Anders Bondeman - ORGELN I GAMLEBY

On this CD you hear organ music by Bach, Brahms, Bondeman and Mendelssohn played on the organ from 1868 of Gamleby church in South of Sweden. The soloist Anders Bondeman was 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.

He was the winner of the improvisation contest in Haarlem in 1965.

Anders Bondeman is heard also on nosag CD 2098, The Organ of St Jacob´s Church, together with organist/composer Michael Waldenby.


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Anders Bondeman: Morgonens rodnad (Prelude to SvPs 496)


   
 		 
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 086Aron Nilsson plays Gullin - FOR THOSE BORNE IN MIND

GABRIELLA GULLIN, composer and church musician active at the St. Clara Church in Stockholm’s Cathedral Parish since 1980, with broad experience as a choir conductor and pedagogue, poet. In the work "För de i minnet burna" (For Those Borne In Mind) she supplies a poetic expression for the state of humanity at the turn of the millenium.

ARON NILSSON received his diploma as a church musician at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm in 2001 with Erik Boström as his organ teacher. This CD is part of his final examination. He studied Gabriella Gullin’s organ works as part of his education in interpreting contemporary music. Gabriella Gullin’s melodrama, "För de i minnet burna", is a work commissioned by Aron Nilsson and he premiered the work at the Umeå Organ Festival in 2000 with the composer as narrator.


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Gullin: from Alla Ballata


   
 		 
nosag WGW1BENGT WIKSTRÖM - Lagrima

The elegant guitar player Bengt Wikström on this his second CD (the first was released in 1976 and is sold out) presents almost 50 minutes of Romantic and virtuoso music from the 1800:s. We meet the great masters of the time - Ponce, Sor, Tarrega, Albeniz, Villa-Lobos and Torroba - and some of the most well-known pieces of this repertory, such as Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Asturias and some Villa-Lobos Preludes.

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Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra


   
 		 
nosag WGW2BENGT WIKSTRÖM - Liebeslied

On this his third CD Bengt Wikström presents more music from the Romantic and virtuoso period of the 1800:s and also some transciptions of Baroque pieces by Bach and Handel. We meet the great masters of the great times of the guitar - Sor, Tarrega, Albeniz (both Isaac and Mateo), Mertz, Sainz de la Maza, Iradier and Granados.

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Albeniz: Rumores de la Caleta


   
 		 
nosag CD 139BENGT WIKSTRÖm - Lariane

The elegant guitar player Bengt Wikström presents 54 minutes of Romantic and virtuoso music from last century and beyond, mostly with the light touch of an entertainer in the salon. Welcome to enjoy a real artist!

Ever since the debut in 1974 Bengt Wikström has toured and played in Scandinavia, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria performing more than 700 solo recitals. Wikström has appeared on radio and TV-shows and released several recordings. Apart from his concert activities Bengt has written articles for guitar magazines.

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Mozzani: Feste Lariane


   
 		 
nosag CD 025Bengt Forsberg - SCHUBERTIADE

One of Sweden’s most prized pianists, Bengt Forsberg (a.o. awarded by The Gramophone and Swedish Grammis together with mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter) plays Schubert’s big G major sonata, Moments Musicaux and the first Impromptu in his very own way. (Forsberg also appears together with tenor Bengt Nordfors and violinist Nils-Erik Sparf on nosag CD 021, ”The Andrée Expedition”).
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Allegro Moderato, from Moments Musicaux


   
 		 
nosag CD 113Björn Malmqvist - BALTIC BASS

The double-bass has a fantastic potential as a solo instrument with its enormous range, its very special colour palette, its harmonics, its pizzicato possibilities and last but not least, its singing qualities. Many contemporary composers have realized this, and through the last decades there has been a great deal of music composed for the double-bass. The influences of great instrumentalists like Gary Karr, Franco Petracchi, Edgar Meyer, and many others can not be overestimated.

A little bit of this music is presented on this CD. It is all what we call "contemporary" –Henze’s "Serenade" from 1949 being the oldest and Christensen´s "Le Chemin de Diamant" being the newest, composed in 1996. The music is all written for double-bass solo, except for the Christensen piece, which is a duet with the cello. One instrument but many moods and characters. We call the CD "Baltic Bass" because the music all comes from countries around the Baltic Sea.

Here you here the great soloist Björn Malmqvist, the principal of the bass section in the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (SON).


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Henze: from Serenade

   
 		 
nosag CD 084Carolina Martin - YOURS SINCERELY

This CD contains the debut of Carolina Martin, 14 year old and very talented. Many grateful thanks to the Parish of Högalid for its substantial support to this recording. The whole income from the CD is aimed to benefit Carolinas further artistic education.
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M. Moszkowski: Étude F Major

"I enjoy playing… running passages… delicate, beautiful chords and rich use of the piano pedal… also Bach’s music – so special to play: you really have to listen!"


   
 		 
nosag CD 030Christer Karlberg - GUITAR FLAMES

The guitar Maestro Christer Karlberg is often seen and heard as a studio musician both in Swedish TV and on Swedish radio. This solo guitar CD, with music ranging from the renaissance via flaming Spanish and Argentine tango to contemporary pieces, gives a rich view over a very broad guitarist, playing both alto and prim guitar.
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Robinson: Lantero


   
 		 
nosag CD 160BOO EGEBJER - St Eskilsmässan / Guds dag

Boo Egebjer is educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, his work as composer and lyricist covers simple songs as well as big scale pieces for choir and orchestra. Stylistically he uses both jazz and hard rock: no honest expression is alien to him.

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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Egebjer: Intermezzo



   
 		 
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 2081Ilona Jánky - PIANIST (2CDs single price)

Ilona Jánky, this Transilvanian Hungarian professor of piano, teacher at several academies and a long career of touring, concerts and recordings, was never before available on CD. This double CD contains some astonnishing first releases of her great playing!
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Chopin: from Sonata B minor, Op 58

Hear her interpretations of music by Chopin, Brahms, Prokofjev, Schumann and Bach, played with an amazingly beautiful clang and expression. These are documentary, live recordings from 1965 to 1982


   
 		 
nosag CD 150JIM NILSSON - Remembrance

Jim Nilsson, born in 1967, studied at the Royal School of Music in Stockholm, and Hochschule für Musik in Basel where he was awarded a soloist diploma 1997 after studying under Oscar Ghiglia. He has on a number of occasions been awarded scholarships by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

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.

For further information please visit www.jimnilsson.com

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S Assad: Remembrance


   
 		 
nosag CD 089Jakob Henriques - GUITAR

Guitar virtuoso Jakob Henriques was born and raised in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. He started to play the guitar at the age of thirteen. Five years later, in 1990, he became a student at the Royal State College of Music in Stockholm where he studied with Rolf La Fleur and he recived his Concert Recital Diploma in 1997. He made his recital debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu performing the D-major concert by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Jakob has won the maximum of Scholarships from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, an annual music competition which is one of the most important in the nation. He has also won prizes at other national competitions.

Jakob has given recitals in important concert halls in Sweden such as Berwaldhallen of Stockholm with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal House of Stockholm. He has several times also performed in Swedish television and radio both as a soloist and in ensembles.

Jakob is one of the founders of Stockholm Guitar Trio. Two recordings are made with the trio, one in 1997 distributed by Opus 3 and the other, Schubert lieds with vocal by Gunnar Klum,nosag CD 063, released by nosag records in 2000.

Please visit Jakob Henriques homepage.


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Lauro: Vals Venezolano no 2


   
 		 
nosag CD 096Jakob Henriques - PLAYS MUSIC FROM THE 19TH

On this CD with virtuoso pieces for the guitar you hear music by Johann Kaspar Mertz, Antonio Giménez Manjón, Fernando Sor, Dionisio Aguado and Mauro Giuliani. The soloist Jakob Henriques was born in 1972 and received his soloist’s diploma from the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm in 1997. He has been a soloist with several Swedish orchestras, including twice with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Okku Kamu and Niklas Willén.

Among his awards can be mentioned that Jakob has been awarded the maximum stipend for foreign studies from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He has won first prize and runners-up in several international guitar competitions.

Jakob has had solo recitals at music festivals in Sweden, Italy, and the US. He has participated in a handful of CDs, two of which are solo recordings with original music for guitar that can regularly be heard on the Swedish Radio. He is also often engaged as jury member at international guitar festivals in Sweden and Italy, as well as being a popular teacher of master classes at several of Sweden’s conservatories. Since the spring of 2004, Jakob is the artistic director of the Swedish music festival Music Days in Gryt.

Jakob is heard also on nosag CDs 063, Schubert Lieds, on 089, Jakob Henriques, guitar and on 094, Scheherazade, together with violinist Jonas Lindgård.

Please visit Jakob Henriques homepage.


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Johann Kaspar Mertz: Fantaisie Hongroise


   
 		 
nosag CD 082Kinga Práda - KINGA! PLAYS FLUTE MUSIC

Romantic Flute music, played by one astonnishing young artist, flutist Kinga Práda together with pianist Ilona Jánky. We are here offered flute music from the classical virtouso repertory by great composers - Enescu, Doppler, Franck, Demerssemann and Samuel Barber. The CD contains very varied and beautiful music, played with breathtaking skill and rich in clang, by this Transilvanian duo, they are on top of that from the same family - daughter Kinga and mother Ilona!

Kinga! is also heard on
nosag CD 029
nosag CD 055
nosag CD 070 and
nosag CD 073

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Franck: from Sonate, part 4 for flute and piano


   
 		 
nosag CD 029Kinga Práda - KINGÁM

New Swedish Flute music, played by one astonnishing young artist Kinga Práda together with virtuoso partners like percussionist Markus Leoson, pianist Ilona Jánky and Filarmonica de Cluj. We are here offered new music by four great Swedish composers - B Tommy Andersson, Tommie Haglund, Martin Larson and Stellan Sagvik. The pieces are world premiere recordings and the CD contains almost 80 minutes very varied music - from flute solo via different chamber music constallations to an amazing Concerto for flute and strings by Stellan Sagvik.

Kinga! is also available on
nosag CD 055
nosag CD 070
nosag CD 073 and
nosag CD 082

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S Sagvik: from Kingám for flute and percussion


   
 		 
nosag CD 042Knut Sönstevold - PLAYS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

"The best Bassoonist in the world" he has been named by conductor Ingemar Månsson, Knut Sönstevold, first basson player of the Swedish Radio Symphonic Orchestra. He has been concerning himself with contemporary music, both as instrumentalist and as a composer all his active musical life. Now he presents chamber music pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen, pieces Knut played many times, all with great success and amazing skill: Tierkreis, Spiral, Solo and In Freundschaft. This technically very intricate music is also good representatives of the experimental views on composing during the 70:s.
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K Stockhausen: from Tierkreis


   
 		 
nosag CD/deer meadow 1MAGNUS GUTKE - touché I

Touché I is the name of Magnus Gutke's debut record, which came out in 1997. The selections are weighted toward Spanish composers like Tárrega's Adelita and Mazurka, followed by Maria. The intensity rises with Johann Sebastian Bach and the Prelude in D-Minor. Two preludes by Villa-Lobos are followed by Moreno-Torroba's Fandanguillo. Yet another pearl is the beautiful Campanas del alba. We may also listen on this CD to compositions by Sor, Segovia, Mompou and de Falla.

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Moreno-Torroba: Fandanguillo



   
 		 
nosag CD/deer meadow 2MAGNUS GUTKE - touché II

Touché II - this recording represents the culmination of more than ten year's work with pieces that date from Magnus Gutke's studies in Paris with the maestro Alberto Ponce and contain, besides Sainz de la Maza´s Platero y yo, Antonio José's Sonata. His work offers subtle melody and tonality in pieces such as Pavana triste and invites us to an explosive Finale with rapid scales and rasgueados. Together with the Frenchman Maurice Ohana we are transported yet further away from the tonal and listen to two movements from Si le jour paraît. We are offered Aube; a work with caustic tones and quarter tones and the virtuoso movement Jeu des quatre vents. A work with impressionistic stamp, Solilioque, by the Frenchman Henri Sauguet, forms an elegant conclusion for this album. .

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Sainz de la Maza: La Muerte



   
 		 
nosag CD/deer meadow 3MAGNUS GUTKE/JAN-OLOF STRANDBERG - Silver och jag

On the cd Silver och jag (Silver and I/Platero y yo) the actor Jan-Olof Strandberg together with the guitarist Magnus Gutke gives their interpretation of the suite Platero y yo by Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. The text reading is in Swedish. Sainz de la Maza, who is considered to be one of the most prominent contemporary composers for the classical guitar, composes in a jazz influenced style inspired by composers like Debussy and Ravel. This suite is inspired by the Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez and his prose Platero y yo from 1914.

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Sainz de la Maza: La Muerte



   
 		 
nosag CD 056Magnus Andersson - SHORT SOUNDS

The virtuoso guitar player Magnus Andersson is specialized in contemporary music. He had several pieces written directly for him and as he spent a lot of time in Italy, many Italian composers wrote him music.
On this CD Magnus plays a collection of these Italian masterpieces of today by maestri Maderna, Bussotti, Berio, Clementi and Donatoni.
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Bussotti: from RARA


   
 		 
nosag CD 117Magnus Andersson - The Plucked North

The virtuoso guitar player Magnus Andersson is specialized in contemporary music. Here we find fresh recordings of new music for guitar, ukulele and electric guitar, solo and in different chamber ensemble constallations and also a new, rich Concerto for guitar and Orchestra. Magnus Andersson masters music from the Nordic countries Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

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Morthenson: from SONORA


   
 		 
nosag CD 129Markus Leoson - COLLUDO

On this CD we meet Markus Leoson on his second album as a soloist on the nosag label, this time collaborating with splendid string ensemble Uppsala kammarsolister. The repertory this time consists of first recordings of contemporary Swedish music by Stefan Solyom, Hans Söderberg and Eberhard Eyser, spiced with music from South African Peter Klatzow and Brazilian Ney Rosauro.



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Solyom: from Concert Piece for Drums and Strings


   
 		 
nosag CD 071Markus Leoson - MARKUSSION

Markus Leoson, young percussion vituoso from Sweden, plays amazingly versions of some of the most interesting and varied pieces for solo percussion from our time, some of them in first recordings. On top of that he also presents a first recording of the Swedish composer Johan Hammerth Concerto for percussion and orchestra, together with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by wellknown Heinrich Schiff, in a very dynamic performance filled with temperament and tremendous skill!

You can also listen to Markus Leoson together with violinist Semmy Stahlhammer on the nosag CD Marimbolino (nosag CD 059) and on Requiem by Gabriella Gullin
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Hammerth: from Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra


   
 		 
nosag CD 080Olov Franzén - LA TERZA VIA

This CD contains Olov Franzén´s four main compositions for solo cello:

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.

Music is one such important way.
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Franzén: from The Unseen Present


   
 		 
nosag CD 123PRADA / SPARF / STOCKHOLM STRING ENSEMBLE - Nukonserter

The Stockholm String Ensemble was formed in 1998 by freelance musicians who had worked together earlier in music projects of a more temporary nature. Their goal is to play primarily Swedish music with emphasis placed on the music of our times, preferably in close collaboration with the composers.

Many pieces have been given their world premieres by flutist Kinga Práda. She has also recorded a CD solely consisting of contemporary Swedish music for flute, together with the percussionist Markus Leoson, Ilona Jánky Práda and Filarmonica de Cluj, on nosag CD 029, and also together with Ilona Jánky Práda nosag CD 082 with virtuoso flute pieces from 19th and early 20th centuries.

Nils-Erik Sparf, violin, is highly regarded as a soloist and chamber musician around the world and has made award-winning records with Anne-Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg. He appears on several nosag CDs.

The conductor Sven H Åberg is at the moment a teacher in flute and conducting at the music institute on the island of Åland. He is also active as a chamber musician and soloist, recording for the Swedish Radio and nosag records. For the past five years he has conducted the Stockholm String Ensemble.

On this very intense concert CD these great artists perform new concertos - Nukonserter - by Csaba Deák, Johan Hammerth, Ingvar Karkoff and Martin Larson.


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Martin Larson: Lucifer, probleme die lügerin


   
 		 
nosag CD 128PETER SCHUBACK - for cello

The cellist Peter Schuback on this CD presents a collection of his compositions for solo cello. We meet Don Giovanni, writing letters to himself from Hell, Euridice´s voice in a beautiful, echoing piece of vast mists, a powerful Sonata and also suites of the same great inventionary talent of this rare artist, one of the most well-known and established in the field of contemporary music for cello.

You can also listen to Peter Schuback on impositioner (nosag CD 067) together with pianist Davor Kajfes.

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Schuback: from Lettere di don Giovanni


   
 		 
nosag CD 088Solveig Wikman plays DAG LUNDIN

Solveig Wikman´s debut on the concert platform took place in 1965 and since then she has given concerts as a soloist, performed chamber music and acted as an accompanist all over Sweden, the neigh-bouring Nordic countries and other countries. She has also played piano duets with her husband Bertil Wikman for concerts, radio, TV and recordings. Since 1978 she has been one of Sweden’s few full-time pianists, at present at Sörmland’s Music & Theatre.
For many years Solveig Wikman has been one of the first to take an active part on behalf of Dag Lundin’s piano compositions. Many of them have been performed at concerts and some have been recorded for Radio Sweden.

Dag Lundin may be said to be a ‘tonal composer of today’, one who has never been interested in radical experiments in his composing. He treats the instruments and the singing voice in a traditional manner and prefers to write music that appeals to the general public. All music must be melodical and have a main thread, a connecting thought, he says; it may be in some repetition, a bass line, a rhythm or a special motive. Dag Lundin’s musical style can be described as a Nordic constellation of late Romanticism and Impressionism with elements of folk music.
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Lundin: Etyd


   
 		 
nosag CD 2090Staffan Björklund - 12 modulationen, Palindrom, Reminiszenzen (2CD)

"12 Modulationen, Palindrom und Reminiszenzen" has its spiritual starting point in Bach’s “Das Wohltemperierte Klavier,” and the work’s pianistic play it is also related to K. Stockhausen’s "Klavierstücke." In the field of energy between these poles, an inner drama "an inner battle" plays itself out: the lone person’s battle with himself and his means of expression, the lonely fight before the ice-cold and ancient eye of the universe.

This is a Double CD at single CD price!
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Björklund: Reminiszenz II Agitato


   
 		 
nosag CD 044Staffan Björklund - DIALOGUES...

Staffan Björklund (b. 1944), former cathedral organist in Linköping, Sweden, now free lance as a pianist and composer, created this enormous "Dialogues pour piano seul" 1991 when he spent some months in Paris, re-taking contact with his friends from studying years, and also concentrating on composing. The result is an amazingly powerfull solo piece, 70 minutes long and filled with extreme expression and emotion. The recording, from the performance at Swedish Academy of Music 1993, captures the intensity that even caused a string to breake in the grand Steinway piano!
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Björklund: from Dialogues pour piano seul


   
 		 
nosag CD 032Staffan Björklund - THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

Staffan Björklund (b. 1944), cathedral organist in Linköping, Sweden, has within a short time risen to a dominant position in Swedish religious musical life. A cathedral of the scale of Linköping´s offers great possibilities, not only for the classical heritage of sacred music but also for Staffan´s own compositions that fill the huge space with novel sounds. Staffan has a deep instinct for music´s spiritual dimensions and we can hear many influences - Swedish folk music, jazz and blues. He has strong connections with French musical life, but is mainly inspired by his love of the Swedish landscape. The Choral is the heart of the evangelical sacred music. Like an enormous oak it stretches its bulk of leaves towards the sun. But into the dark soil the roots dig themselves for nourishment. The music on this CD is Staffan Björklund´s declaration of love to the many faced Choral, with its plenitude of expressions.
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Björklund: from In Dulci Jubilo


   
 		 
nosag CD 069Stella Czajkowski - POLISH PIANO MUSIC

Stella Czajkowski is a virtuoso piano soloist from "Freistadt Danzig", today Gdansk in Poland. In 1958 she moved to Sweden, where she is now living.

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...

Stella Czajkowski plays repertoir from all times. On this CD she presents in live recordings made between 1970 and 1976 her interpretations of contemporary Polish music as well as a selection of Chopin oevre.
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Lutoslawski: from Bukoliki


   
 		 
nosag CD 120ÅSHILLD HENRIKSEN - Favorites for horn and orchestra

This is really an unusually romantic, harmonic, well played and beautiful CD, containing virtuoso music for the French Horn and Orchestra, performed by two of Sweden´s greatest artists in the field - Åshilld Henriksen (originally from Norway, OK...), Solo Hornist of and here playing together with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, all conducted by Hannu Lintu. A collection of the most beautiful pieces for this lyrical brass instrument, by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Dukas, Larsson and Glière, played with such grace and artistery, and such an easy and effortless virtuosity that you really believe in the saying that the world´s best hornists are female!


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Larsson: from Concertino


   
 		 
nosag CD 178STEFAN LINDGREN - Four Piano Sonatas

Stefan Lindgren has played as soloist with the great orchestras of Sweden - Royal Philharmonics, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Gothenburg Symphonics. He has played many recitals in Sweden and abroad in New York, London, Paris and Vienna. 1993-2001 he was the orchestral pianist of the Radio Symphony Orchestra and since 2007 he has the same position with the Royal Philharmonics. Stefan Lindgren made many recordings both on CD and for the Swedish Radio.

As a composer he has publiced two piano concertos, one concert for piano and strings, a symphony, poem for orchestra, six piano sonatas, piano quintet, piano quartet, flute trio, horn trio, piano trio, violin sonata, cello sonata, clarinet sonata, flute sonata, bassoon sonata, songs, poem for organ, duo for clarinet and piano and a number of smaller pieces.

This CD contains the four latest sonatas for piano - numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6 - played by the composer.

You need Real Audio to listen to this file:
Lindgren: From Piano Sonata 4 part 3




   
 		 
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