Composer: Anders Eliasson
Performer: Anders Paulsson, Christian Lindberg, Joakim Agnas
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson, Sakari Oramo
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2368
Release: 2022
Size: 1.31 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra “Sinfonia concertante”
01. I. Cerca
02. II. Solitudine
03. III. Fremiti
04. IV. Lugubre
05. V. Nebbie
Trombone Concerto
06. Adagio
Symphony No. 4 for Orchestra
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Con moto, minaccioso
10. IV. Adagio
Born into a working-class family, Anders Eliasson’s earliest musical experiences originated from within himself: “they were my own singing, and tunes I heard on the radio”. At the age of nine he began to play the trumpet, and soon after he became the leader of a jazz band for which he wrote arrangements. Aged 14, he found a local organist to teach him harmony and counterpoint, and at 16 he left his hometown for Stockholm to study privately. In 1966 Eliasson enrolled at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying the various techniques and trends of modernism, from dodecaphony to musique concrete. But in the end he found it impossible to “break away from more than a thousand years of tradition”, as he put it: “Music is like H2O: melody, harmony and rhythm are a single entity. And it has to flow”. The three works recorded here – all for the first time – are examples of the highly personal idiom he developed as a consequence.