Amanda Maier (1853-1894) and Julius Rontgen (1855-1932) were a couple in both music and love. This new album includes world premiere recordings of Amanda Maier's preludes, Julius Rontgen's piano suite "Julklapp" (Christmas Gift), and the piano suite "Zwiegesprache" (Dialogues), that the young couple composed together. In addition to this, you also get Rontgen's brilliant variation work "Neckens Polska," which he dedicated to his future bride. This release is charming, beautiful, and highly romantic music at it's best, performed by one of Sweden's most outstanding musicians: the award-winning pianist Bengt Forsberg.

Stockholm-based British conductor, Simon Crawford-Phillips, leads the award-winning Swedish chamber orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, in Aaron Copland’s "Appalachian Spring", George Gershwin’s "Variations on I Got Rhythm", and reflections by various Swedish composers on the famous Swedish traditional tune, "Visa från Utanmyra". Bonus tracks include exclusive and rarely heard alternative ending of Copland’s "Appalachian Spring"! Since 1883, Västerås Sinfonietta has offered tones and traditions. On the home stage in Västerås Concert Hall, the 33 musicians orchestra plays for its audience in, among other things, subscription series, lunch and coffee concerts, Christmas concerts, and a rich selection for children and young people.

This album presents unknown, high quality Swedish 20th century guitar music. From the nationally colored neo-classicism of Gunnar de Frumerie and Erland von Koch, over Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Sven-Eric Johanson, to Bengt Hambraeus and Gunnar Bucht. With two exceptions, these are all world premiere recordings, performed by one of Sweden’s foremost guitarists, Marten Falk. Marten Falk is one of Sweden's most multi-faceted guitarists, with repertoire ranging from 16th century vihuela music over Russian 19th century Romantics until today's hardcore contemporary music.

Swedish-based British conductor, Simon Crawford-Phillips, leads the award-winning Swedish chamber orchestra Västerås Sinfonietta and acclaimed soprano Elin Rombo on a musical journey charting the life and influence of the legendary singer Jenny Lind. In the 200th year since her birth this album celebrates “The Swedish Nightingale’s” career through the music of her musical friends, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Hans Christian Andersen. Jenny Lind, original name Johanna Maria Lind, (born Oct. 6, 1820, Stockholm—died Nov. 2, 1887, Malvern, Worcestershire, Eng.), Swedish-born operatic and oratorio soprano admired for her vocal control and agility and for the purity and naturalness of her art. Her range extended from the B below middle C to high G. A skilled coloratura singer who often wrote her own cadenzas, she also sang simple songs with great appeal.

“Art is a field that has always been open to women, and where they have also accomplished a great deal. It can not be denied that whilst women have had success in the performing arts their achievements in the creative arts have not been so illustrious. As for Swedish women in particular they have won great acclaim abroad but always as performers. Consequently many people rush to the assumption that women do not have the ability to create significant works of art. Objectively, there is no evidence to suggest this is true or false with regard to the field of music. On the other hand, it should be assumed that a woman, given the same conditions as a man, can create equally impressive works of art. All efforts in this area should be met with respect even by those who have been skeptical to previous attempts. Amongst those, who have seriously dedicatedly applied themselves to redressing this imbalance in Swedish music, Laura Netzel holds a special position.” (F. Herman) Laura Netzel (1839-1927) is yet another Swedish composer of forgotten treasures. Malin Broman and Simon Crawford-Phillips are back with their third album on dB Productions, this time along with soprano Sabina Bisholt and the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra. This chamber music album present never before recorded works for violin & strings, violin & piano, and selected songs and piano pieces by this remarkable composer, just waiting to be discovered by a broader public.

Swedish rising star soprano, Sabina Bisholt, now releases her first solo album, accompanied by one of Sweden’s finest pianists, Bengt-Åke Lundin. In focus: two Swedish-German composer couples - Ingeborg & Hans von Bronsart, and Amanda Maier-Röntgen & Julius Röntgen. Except for the Maier songs, that Sabina recorded already with Bengt Forsberg for the previous issue ""Amanda Maier Vol. 2"" (2017), all the tracks on this CD are first recordings. "

After the award-winning album "Fanny & Felix" (dBCD191), Malin Broman and Simon Crawford-Phillips now invite you to a nostalgic journey 100 years back in time: music that was written for violin/viola and piano in 1918-1921, with one foot in late romanticism and impressionism, and the other in more modernistic forms of expression. Broman and Crawford-Phillips prove once again that they are one of the tightest chamber music constellations in Sweden. Malin Broman and Simon Crawford-Philips regularly perform as a duo. Both are extremely devoted to chamber music, and their individual musicalities blend together seamlessly, as is evidenced in this recording.

“The Romantic Leygraf”- This headline might raise a few eyebrows. This is the second volume in the archive series with legendary Swedish pianist Hans Leygraf (1920-2011). Leygraf was known worldwide for his meticulous work with classics such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, and his reputation was reinforced by his dedicated work as a pedagogue, not least at the Mozarteum University Salzburg during the last decades of his life. On this album he shows a less known side in previously never released radio recordings of mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin (1969), fantasy pieces by Robert Schumann (1993), and intermezzi by Johannes Brahms (1971). A must for all Leygraf fans!

This exciting new release features world premiere recordings of Amanda Maier’s (1853-1894) music. This release is sure to become a reference album of this remarkable Swedish composer, who married composer Julius Rontgen and was a close friend of Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, and many other great musicians of her time. Radiant performances of Swedish main artist and violinist Gregory Maytan, Austrian conductor Andreas Stoehr and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra make this release a must-own for classical lovers. Swedish Grammis Award-winning pianist Ann-Sofi Klingberg appears in the piano quartet and in the dances for violin & piano. In the piano quartet you can also hear Bernt Lysell on viola and Sara Wijk on cello.

This new release is a fully loaded album with a unique combo of violin concertos by Johannes Brahms and his contemporary friends, Amanda Maier and Julius Röntgen. Furthermore, the album includes a brand-new Brahms cadenza, written by award-winning Swedish composer, Mats Larsson Gothe. This is the first Swedish studio recording of Brahms’s concerto with one of Sweden’s foremost violinists, Cecilia Zilliacus, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and renowned Estonian conductor, Kristiina Poska.

”Cecilia is extremely musical and living proof that it’s always possible to pursue unusual ideas” (The Strad, 2018). Over the years, audiences have embraced Zilliacus’ equally tantalizing and warm interpretations of everything from the great classical and Romantic works to contemporary chamber music and collaborations across genres – from the most prominent symphony orchestras, conductors, and composers in Europe to jazz musicians, folk musicians, singer songwriters, and others.