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Eklund - Symphonies 3, 5 & 11 | CPO 5550872

Eklund - Symphonies 3, 5 & 11

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5550872

Barcode: 0761203508723

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th August 2020

Contents

Artists

Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Hermann Baumer

Works

Eklund, Hans

Symphony no.3 'Sinfonia rustica'
Symphony no.5 'Quadri'
Symphony no.11 'Sinfonia piccola'

Artists

Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Hermann Baumer

About

Hans Eklund (1927-1999) numbers among the Swedish composers who gained public notice in the 1950s following his studies at the Royal Music Academy from 1947 to 1952 with Lars-Erik Larsson, one of his country’s most popular composers. Although Eklund was one of the very first Swedish composers whose music was performed at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, his music never abandoned tonality. Eklund wrote a total of thirteen symphonies. With the exception of the fourth, all of these works have richly associative Italian titles.

His Third Symphony was inspired by the landscape and folk music of the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, while in his Fifth Symphony he deals with the subversive powers of war. The music sounds grey, sharper, not so smooth rhythmically, and hotter. Although Eklund termed his Eleventh Symphony of 1995 the “Sinfonia piccola”, it is ironically one of his longest such works as well as a memorial tribute to his honoured teacher Lars-Erik Larsson. The time to rediscover this important symphonist is now!

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