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Alfven & Rautavaara: Orchestral Works
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Details
- Composer
- Hugo Alfven, Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Artist
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Feb 13, 2026
- Catalog #
- CHSA 5386
- UPC
- 0095115538623
About
Hugo Alfvén was an accomplished writer and painter as well as musician and composer. Born in Stockholm in 1872, he studied first at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (the Royal College of Music) and then in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and Brussels. Influenced by Wagner and Richard Strauss, Alfvén's style is also permeated with the influence of Swedish folk music. Festspel (Festival Play) was commissioned to inaugurate the new art nouveau building for Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern (the Royal Dramatic Theatre) in Stockholm, in 1908, the work is suitably rousing and celebratory for such an occasion. Alfvén was asked in 1932 to write incidental music for a play by Ludvig Nordström, to commemorate the 300-year anniversary of the death of the protestant Swedish monarch at the battle of Lützen, at the end of the Thirty Years War, the suite that he subsequently extracted is a substantial work in it's own right. Cantus arcticus is perhaps Rautavaara's best-known work, and was commissioned by the University of Oulu, in northern Finland, to honour it's first formal doctoral graduation ceremony, in 1972, Rautavaara instead took his inspiration from the natural environment of the region, incorporating two-channel tape recordings of birdsong as part of the orchestral texture.
Tracklist 12 tracks
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1 Festspel (Festival Overture), Op. 25 07:44
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Festspel (Festival Overture), Op. 25
- Duration
- 07:44
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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2 I. Suo (The Marsh) 07:48
- Track
- 2
- Title
- I. Suo (The Marsh)
- Duration
- 07:48
- Composer
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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3 II. Melankolia (Melancholy) 03:55
- Track
- 3
- Title
- II. Melankolia (Melancholy)
- Duration
- 03:55
- Composer
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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4 III. Joutsenet muuttavat (Swans Migrating) 06:44
- Track
- 4
- Title
- III. Joutsenet muuttavat (Swans Migrating)
- Duration
- 06:44
- Composer
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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5 I. Vision 03:26
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Vision
- Duration
- 03:26
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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6 II. Intermezzo 02:23
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Intermezzo
- Duration
- 02:23
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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7 III. I Kejsar Ferdinands slottskapell (In Emperor Ferdinand's chapel) 06:16
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. I Kejsar Ferdinands slottskapell (In Emperor Ferdinand's chapel)
- Duration
- 06:16
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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8 IV. Sarabanda 02:24
- Track
- 8
- Title
- IV. Sarabanda
- Duration
- 02:24
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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9 V. Bourrée 01:49
- Track
- 9
- Title
- V. Bourrée
- Duration
- 01:49
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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10 VI. Menuett 02:48
- Track
- 10
- Title
- VI. Menuett
- Duration
- 02:48
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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11 VII. Elegi 04:33
- Track
- 11
- Title
- VII. Elegi
- Duration
- 04:33
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi
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12 VIII. Breitenfeld 10:08
- Track
- 12
- Title
- VIII. Breitenfeld
- Duration
- 10:08
- Composer
- Hugo Alfvén
- Ensemble
- Göteborgs Symfoniker
- Conductor
- Neeme Järvi