Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Classical BIS

Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

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BI 2368

Eliasson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

Label Catalogue Number:
BIS-2368

Running Time: 01:16:03

Release Date: January 2022
Originally recorded in 2020

Genre:
Classical

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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.

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“… the soloists give their works everything and the conductors don’t shirk on Eliasson’s firm principles …”

Andrew Mellor – Gramophone magazine – March 2022

Classic Today Recommendation

Artistic Quality 10 Sound Quality 10 Overall Impression 10

“… This album should not be missed by anyone interested in the symphonic music of the post-Shostakovich and Pettersson era and in substantial musical alternatives to the avant-garde mainstream since the 1960s.”

Christoph Schlüren – Klassik.heute.de – 5 March 2022

“… It [Sym No. 4] is a very fine work which should be finding a place outside Scandinavia and is the highlight, I feel, of this disc. The performances by the two orchestras and soloists are unbeatable - wonderful throughout, as are the vivid SACD recordings.”

Gary Higginson – MusicWeb-International.com – 1 March 2022

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