Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

British pianist and conductor Howard Shelley is featured here on a new album with the Swedish chamber orchestra Västerås Sinfonietta. French music is on the menu: Gabriel Fauré's "Suite from Masques et Bergamasques" and "Pavane", paired with Francis Poulenc's "Aubade" and - suitably - his "Sinfonietta.” Howard Shelley was educated at Highgate School and then the Royal College of Music. His career began after he won the premier prize at the Royal College of Music at the end of his first year and gave a following recital in London as well as a televised Promenade concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under conducter Michael Tilson Thomas, all in the same season. He has recorded several records for various labels. Among his most popular recordings are Rachmaninov’s complete piano music and concertos, and series of Mozart, Hummel, Cramer, and all of Gershwin’s works.

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This marks the debut of Swedish contemporary ensemble Curious Chamber Players! Since its inception in 2003, CCP has explored a wide range of new music repertoire: from hard-core modernism to graphically notated chance music, from minimalism to noise music, and from electronics to improvisation. Included here is a very particular sound atmosphere with music by Danish and Swedish composers such as Nicolai Worsaae, Christian Winter Christensen, Jeppe Just Christensen, Malin Bång, Ylva Lund Bergner, and Rei Munakata. A new world to discover awaits!

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After Cecilia Zilliacus’s internationally praised release with Carl Nielsen’s violin concerto, she now presents a world premiere recording of two new Swedish violin concertos. One concerto of Anders Nilsson, one of Sweden’s most prominent composers, and the other of Ylva Skog, nominated twice for the Swedish Grammy Award for her previous composer portraits. Cecilia Zilliacus is one of Sweden’s most accomplished violinists, working across the Nordic countries and Europe. Her versatile repertoire of solo and chamber music works has led her to cooperate with a vast number of composers and orchestras. Her interest in newly written pieces and contemporary music has generated several compositions written specifically for her. She has recorded a number of albums, several of which have won Swedish Grammies.