Aniara

ANIARA

Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Harry Martinson

The ”space opera” Aniara by Karl-Birger Blomdahl to a libretto by Erik Lindegren and based on an epic poem by...

Bengt Hambræus

Various Artists

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...

EMS 30 Years

EMS 30 Years

The Electronic Music Studio – 30 years

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

Parmerud Grains of voices

Åke Parmerud

Grains of Voices

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

Göran Gamstorp Growings

Göran Gamstorp

Growings

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

Stockholms Saxophone Quartet : links

Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

Links

The Stockholm Saxophone Quartet is one of Sweden’s most eminent and indispensable groups for contemporary...

Nya kulturkvartetten Narrskeppet

New Culture Quartet

Ship of Fools

The New Culture Quartet existed between the years 1983 – 1997 as an inter-media group consisting of Jan Bark,...

Night of enchantment

Night of enchantment

Erik Mikael Karlsson

Suggestive electronic sound-worlds by the award-winning Swedish composer Erik Mikael Karlsson (b.1967). Together...

Rolf Enström/Quarks

Rolf Enström

Quarks

Inspired by the tiniest building stones of nature, Quarks, Rolf Enström composed the piece Directions. He...

Sound Masks

Sound Masks

Vytautas V. Jurgutis

This is Caprice Records' first SACD Hybrid (Super Audio Compact Disc Hybrid)—in surround format. Sound Masks is...

Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Jonny Axelsson & Fredrik Ullén

This CD is a result of two unrelated events: the attempts in 1998 to get Karlheinz Stockhausen to the Electro...

Winner takes all

Winner Takes All - Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and emsPrize 1995-2004

Jean François Cavro

Within the scope of the festival week Stockholm New Music, Caprice Records and EMS presented a double album...

Åke Hodell: Spirit of ectasy

Åke Hodell

Spirit of ecstasy & The Way to Nepal

Spirit of Ecstasy” has been out-of-print for more than two decades, becoming a collectible artifact these days,...

Kerstin Ståhl: Johnson, Bodin & Ives

Kerstin Ståhl, Kerstin Åberg

In the 1970’s, soprano Kerstin Ståhl became well-known on the Swedish music scene as an unusually versatile...

Sven-Erik Bäck: Vid havets yttersta gräns

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir, Östen Sjöstrand, Gun Robertson, John Zacharias, The Basel Percussion Ensemble, Paul Sacher

The album Vid havets yttersta gräns from 1985 is now available as a long-awaited digital reissue from Caprice...

Karl Brothers - Air Change

Tommy Adolfsson, Jörgen Adolfsson

In the year 2020, the duo Jörgen Adolfsson and Tommy Adolfsson celebrates their 50th musical anniversary! On this...