Tomis – Metamorphoses for string quartet, op. 65 was composed in 2002. In this work the metamorphoses tries to describe how Ovid – the poet of love and metamorphosis – himself was changed by his imprisonment in the city of Tomis. The different movements show Ovid’s changing attitudes – sadness, then rebellion, emotion, teasing, hardening… Finally, he grows so strong that he can stoically bear his fate without being broken. 

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Madeleine Isaksson’s music comments, associates and expresses atmospheres through a singular, developed language. “There’s something going on, something that has matured and that expresses itself in a musical form.” The quote is telling, and is applicable not only to the individual works, but also to Madeleine Isaksson’s whole attitude towards creation. Rum (“Rooms”) was first performed in Stockholm in 1999 (parts 1 and 2) and has subsequently been performed in its complete version in Göteborg, Copenhagen, Vienna and under the 2003 Stockholm New Music Festival. 

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Per Henrik Wallin (1946-2005) was a jazz legend even during his own lifetime. He is regarded as by far the most impulsive jazz pianists and composers Sweden has ever produced. His style has been branded as uncompromising, masterly, and violent, but there is also an intimacy and a poetry, as revealed in this collection of piano compositions: pure jazz tunes, little gems, miniatures in a tradition rooted in Beethoven’s Bagatelles. 

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In this piece a connecting link between the future and the past is constructed – the flute and percussion are set against the organ’s occasionally modal, archaic character. 

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Sonata scura for string orchestra was written in 1988. This “dark sonata” – in four movements – was commissioned by the Camerata Roman (today Camerata Nordica) and was premiered by them in October 1989 with the composer conducting. The work was revised in 2005. 

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Treccia for violoncello solo (1993) is one in a series of solo compositions, all of them with the title Treccia. Previous publications on Edition Suecia are Treccia for guitar solo and Minotaur Labyrinth – Treccia for percussion solo. 

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