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Stenhammar - Symphony No.2

Composer Wilhelm Stenhammar
Performer Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Period Modern
Catalogue Number BIS-2424 SACD
EAN 7318599924243
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Nov 2018
Total time 83'31



It was in 1953, 65 years ago, that Herbert Blomstedt conducted the Gothenburg Symphony for the first time. Since then he has been back on numerous occasions, performing a wide range of works – only not those by Wilhelm Stenhammar. Blomstedt has told of how an international career gave him little opportunity to study and conduct Stenhammar’s music. At the age of 85, however, when he no longer had any obligations as a chief conductor, he thought ‘now or never’ and began to study the composer’s major scores in earnest. And when the time came to perform and record them, what other orchestra could he choose but the Gothenburg Symphony – Stenhammar’s ‘own’ orchestra which he conducted between 1907 and 1922. The works on this disc are possibly the finest orchestral music that Stenhammar composed and he gave the premières of both with the orchestra, Symphony No. 2 in 1915 and the revised version of the Serenade in 1920. In fact, he even dedicated the symphony to the members of the orchestra, his ‘dear friends’.
 
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  Wilhelm Stenhammar
  Symphony No. 2 in G minor, Op. 34 45'02
01 I. Allegro energico 13'19
02 II. Andante 9'29
03 III. Scherzo. Allegro, ma non troppo presto 7'16
04 IV. Finale. Sostenuto - Allegro vivace alla breve 14'58
 
 
  Wilhelm Stenhammar
  Serenade in F major, Op. 31 37'09
05 I. Overtura. Allegrissimo 7'02
06 II. Canzonetta. Tempo di valse, un poco tranquillo 4'59
07 III. Scherzo. Presto 7'33
08 IV. Notturno. Andante sostenuto 7'51
09 V. Finale. Tempo moderato 9'44
 
  Album total 83'31
ComposerStenhammar, Wilhelm
OrchestraGothenburg Symphony
ConductorBlomstedt, Herbert

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