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Tue 14 Aug, 2018:
Stenhammar: Symphony No 2 in G minor, Op 34; Incidental Music for August Strindberg's 'A Dream Play' (1916): concert version by Hilding Rosenberg (1970)

Here's a first-rate companion SACD to this team's fine BIS anthology (reviewed by Rob Cowan on 7 August 2014) containing Wilhelm Stenhammar's glorious...

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Thu 07 Aug, 2014:
Stenhammar: Serenade in F major, Op 31; Excelsior!, Op 13; Sången (The Song), Op 44 – Interlude

Listened to back-to-back, Sweden’s two Romantic masters Franz Berwald (1796-1868) and Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) have at least one thing in...

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Wed 12 Feb, 2014:
Stenhammar: String Quartets – No 5 in C major, Op 29 (Serenade); No 6 in D minor, Op 35; String Quartet in F minor (1897)

Wilhelm Stenhammar's last two string quartets could hardly be more different from each other: No 5 (written around 1910) possesses a wit, luminosity...

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Fri 11 Oct, 2013:
Stenhammar: String Quartets – No 3 in F major, Op 18 and No 4 in A minor, Op 25; Lodolezzi sjunger, Op 39 (Elegy & Intermezzo)

Three cheers for this first volume in a complete survey from BIS of string quartets (seven in all) by that underrated Swedish figure, Wilhelm...

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