A Date with a Soprano Saxophone can be seen as a spearhead to launch the soprano saxophone as a classical solo...

Alarme is a warning call, a roar, intended to resound through the ages. Invoco – invocation – is the grey...

In the Collectors Classics Series we present two of the most important compositions in Swedish orchestral music...

Who is Bo Nilsson? He slips out of your grip, and as soon as you think you got him pinned down he changes his hat...

Various Artists The 20th issue in the Caprice Composers Series is a portrait of the composer Bengt Hambræus containing the following compostitions: Rota II, Ricordanza per orchestra and Symphonia Sacra in Tempore Passionis.Rota II for multi-channel loudspeaker rendering is made up of electronically processed instrumental sounds. These consist entirely of the sound of bells and organ, via a number of tiny bells from a small foundry near Mora in Sweden, and the organ of the Church of the Assumption in Munich. Ricordanza is an...

The composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916–68) actually wanted to become a conductor. The musicologist Carl-Gunnar...

This CD is dedicated to the music of  Sven-Eric Bäck. It mainly concentrates on his solo and chamber music from...

The Caprice Records composer series presents Karl-Birger Blomdahl, one of the protagonsists of the Swedish music...

The guitar with its wealth of colours and tones, and the clarinet with its great dynamic potential – together...

In 1964 the board of the Swedish Radio decided to build Sweden’s first professional electronic music studio....

The composer Fredrik Sixten has, in close cooperation with author Bengt Pohjanen, written a modern composition...

The professor and choir conductor Eric Ericson was awarded the music prize of the Nordic Council in 1995. On this...

Sven-David Santström’s Freedom Mass was given its premiere performance in Leksand during the festival Music by...

Gaida is Lithuania’s biggest festival for contemporary music, and every year the most important and prominent...

The idea of Grains of Voices was born when Åke Parmerud was commissioned to write a work for the Swedish Radio....

Göran Gamstorp (born in 1957) achieved his breakthrough with Growings for symphony orchestra and tape, a piece...