Composer: Jonathan Östlund
Performer: Andrea Pedrazzini, Andreas Laake, Anna Noakes, Caroline Doerge, Coro Calliope, Elena Saccomandi, Evelyne Bologa Cimoca, Evgheny Brakhman, Gabriella Dall’Olio, Laurence Perkins, Lina Ferencz, Maria Zagorinskaya, Marta Potulska, Mauro Zappala, Myriam Hidber-Dickinson, Nataly Grines, Nizhny Novgorod Soloists, Oleg Egorov, Paola Nervi, Sasha Grynyuk, Stefan Cassar, Ursula Leveaux, Vladimir Kharin, Walter Gatti, Yan Li, Yukiko Ogura
Orchestra: Orchestra da Camera del Locarnese
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Divine Art
Catalogue: DDA 21239
Release: 2022
Size: 539 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Imago Theme
02. L’eau de l’oubli
03. Paraphrase on Bach’s ‘Sicilano’
04. Fantasia on Bach’s Toccata in D minor
05. Les Oiseaux et François
06. Arrangement of Reger’s ‘Mariä Wiegenlied’
07. La Neige de Noël
08. Paraphrase on Bach’s ‘Komm süßer Tod, Komm selge Ruh’
09. La nuit étoilée
10. Mondspiegel: Fantasia on Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’ mvt. 1
11. Turquoise Spring
12. Rêve et Lune Duet
13. Night of June
14. Lumieres de jardin
15. Will-o’-the-wisp
16. Midnight Hour: fantasia on a Swedish Carol
17. Zephyr
18. Titania
19. Swedish Folk-dance
20. Dance on Glowing Strings – Swedish Rhapsody
21. La Sirena
22. Castel Caracal
23. A True Love of Mine – Fantasia no. 2 on Scarborough Fair
Bouquet (Suite for Two Clarinets):
24. I. Fantasisa on Swedish Folk-song
25. II. Fantasia on Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5
26. III. Fantasia on Debussy’s ‘Afternoon of a Faun
27. IV. Fantasia on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’
28. V. Fantasia on Mussorgsky’s ‘Promenade’ Theme
29. VI. Fantasia on Mussorgsky’s ‘The Old Castle’
30. VII. Fantasia on Tchaikovsky’s ‘June’
31. Traumgewalt – I
32. Traumgewalt – II
33. The Jester
34. La Flûte Rêveuse
35. Imago Theme 2
Jonathan Östlund (b.1975) is a Swedish composer who has recently been living in Romania and before that London before returning to his home country in 2021. He has manifested an avid interest for music from an early age and has pursued his passion with a BA and MA in Composition at the Luleå Tekniska Universitet, in Sweden. He has studied under the artistic guidance of Prof. Rolf Martinsson, Prof. Jan Sandström and Prof. Sverker Jullander, among others, and has so far completed over 100 works, including several orchestral pieces, a Violin Concerto and a Piano Concerto, and has been awarded many prizes in international competitions.
This new album follows the distinctive format of previous programs in that it features orchestral, vocal, choral, instrumental and chamber music. Östlund’s primary inspiration is nature which is brought out fully in beautiful Impressionist works such as L’eau de l’oubli and La nuit étoilee. He is also fascinated by the art of composing fantasies and paraphrases on classics and several are included here. A large team of soloists (several of whom also gave the world premieres of these works) were gathered in various locations, often having to work through lockdowns, to record this album. Östlund’s music is very accessible and tonal and often full of wit and humor, and is always atmospheric.