Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra & Johannes Gustavsson, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Sakari Oramo
- Anders Eliasson (1947 - 2013): Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra "Sinfonia concertante":
- 1 Eliasson: Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra "Sinfonia concertante": I. Cerca 05:39
- 2 Eliasson: Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra "Sinfonia concertante": II. Solitudine 08:06
- 3 Eliasson: Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra "Sinfonia concertante": III. Fremiti 07:01
- 4 Eliasson: Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra "Sinfonia concertante": IV. Lugubre 04:57
- 5 Eliasson: Symphony No. 3 for Soprano Saxophone & Orchestra "Sinfonia concertante": V. Nebbie 01:39
- Anders Eliasson:
- 6 Eliasson: Trombone Concerto: Adagio 21:56
- Symphony No. 4 for Orchestra:
- 7 Eliasson: Symphony No. 4 for Orchestra: I. Allegro 11:49
- 8 Eliasson: Symphony No. 4 for Orchestra: II. Adagio 07:43
- 9 Eliasson: Symphony No. 4 for Orchestra: III. Con moto, minaccioso 05:14
- 10 Eliasson: Symphony No. 4 for Orchestra: IV. Adagio 01:59
Info for Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
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.
Christian Lindberg, trombone
Anders Paulsson, soprano saxophone
Joakim Agnas, flugelhorn
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Johannes Gustavsson, conductor
Sakari Oramo, conductor
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Booklet for Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4