Sakari Oramo, Johannes Gustavsson, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2022) [24/96]

Born into a working-class family, Anders Eliasson’s earliest musical experiences originated from within himself: ‘they were my own singing, and tunes I heard on the radio’. At the age of nine he began to play the trumpet, and soon after he became the leader of a jazz band for which he wrote arrangements. Aged 14, he found a local organist to teach him harmony and counterpoint, and at 16 he left his hometown for Stockholm to study privately.
In 1966 Eliasson enrolled at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying the various techniques and trends of modernism, from dodecaphony to musique concrete. But in the end he found it impossible to ‘break away from more than a thousand years of tradition’, as he put it: ‘Music is like H2O: melody, harmony and rhythm are a single entity. And it has to flow.’ The three works recorded here – all for the first time – are examples of the highly personal idiom he developed as a consequence.

TRACKLIST

01. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - I. Cerca
02. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - II. Solitudine
03. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - III. Fremiti
04. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - IV. Lugubre
05. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - V. Nebbie
06. Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Adagio
07. Joakim Agnas - I. Allegro
08. Joakim Agnas - II. Adagio
09. Joakim Agnas - III. Con moto, minaccioso
10. Joakim Agnas - IV. Adagio



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