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Hjalmar Borgstrom - Violin Concerto, Symphonic Poems | Simax PSC1311

Hjalmar Borgstrom - Violin Concerto, Symphonic Poems

Label: Simax

Cat No: PSC1311

Barcode: 7033662013111

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd May 2010

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Contents

Artists

Jonas Batstrand (violin)
Nils Anders Mortensen (piano)
Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperan

Conductor

Terje Boye Hansen

Works

Borgstrom, Hjalmar

Die Nacht der Toten, op.16
Jesus in Gethsemane, op.14
Violin Concerto in G major, op.25

Artists

Jonas Batstrand (violin)
Nils Anders Mortensen (piano)
Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperan

Conductor

Terje Boye Hansen

About

Over the past 10 years, the music of Hjalmar Borgstrøm, a Norwegian composer who wrote around the turn of the 20th century, has been rediscovered by performers and audiences.

The three pieces on this new CD, the two symphonic poems “Jesus in Gethsemane” and “Die Nacht der Toten”, as well as the highly melodic Violin Concerto, are all receiving their World Premiere Recordings. Violinist Jonas Båtstrand and pianist Nils Anders Mortensen are joined by the Symphony Orchestra of NorrlandsOperan and conductor Terje Boye Hansen.

Norwegian composer Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1864–1925) studied with the Swedish composer Johannes Svendsen, and although his music stands at the point of intersection between neo-romanticism and expressionism, it is far more classical in form than many of his European contemporaries. However, Borgstrøm also idolized Wagner, and was an ardent champion of programme music.

Jesus in Gethsemane
was premiered in Kristiania in 1904, and performed many times after that. In his written programme notes, Borgstrøm uses text from all four gospels, describing the agony of Jesus the night before the crucifixion.

The Night of the Dead was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1905, but has never been performed in Norway. Along the lines of Saint-Säens’s Dance Macabre, the work takes place in a cemetery around midnight.

Premiered in 1914 with Leif Halvorsen as soloist, Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto has only been performed twice since. The work is highly imaginative and reveals how the composer uses all the elements of music to give it a narrative style.

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