Wennerberg-Reuter, Stenhammar & Hallen

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BIS
Release Date
October 3, 2025
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Pianist Peter Friis Johansson has brought together renowned musicians, including violinist Johan Dalene and soprano Sofie Asplund, for a programme that juxtaposes three generations of Swedish composers. The vocal and chamber works performed here testify to the special place these genres occupy in Swedish art music and to the vitality of musical societies in the early twentieth century, which sparked an interest that went far beyond easily digestible music. Andreas Hallen is the oldest of the composers featured here. His Piano Quartet shows great confidence despite being an early work. Like many composers of his generation, Hallen readily incorporates folk elements. Wilhelm Stenhammar produced an important and varied body of work. His Violin Sonata is a work that reflects the ideals of his German education: it is absolute music without any explicit extra-musical narrative content, a 'synthesis of classicism and sensitive poetry', as his first biographer put it. Sara Wennerberg-Reuter is the least-known of the three, and many of her scores remain unpublished. Stockholm's only female organist with a permanent position, she left behind a varied body of work spanning a wide range of styles. She distanced herself from her contemporaries with a musical style that focused on melody, a commodity she felt had by then become scarce.


Product Description:


  • Release Date: October 03, 2025


  • UPC: 7318599926865


  • Catalog Number: BIS-2686


  • Label: BIS


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Andreas Hallen, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Sara Wennerberg-Reuter


  • Performer: Peter Friis Johansson, Johan Dalene, Sofie Asplund, Daniel Migdal, Albin Uusijarvi, Amalie Stalheim