New releases:

Four new works by the Swedish composers Henrik Strindberg, Pär Frid, Djuro Zivkovic and Benjamin Staern were recorded during the summer of 2008. Together with compositions by Karin Rehnqvist, Victoria Borisova-Ollas and Mattias Lysell this CD presents a document of time with great dynamics and poetry. 

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The pieces chosen for this CD have a communicative and immediate character. The music has lightness and a swing, and it is the joy of playing that is the starting point: the dance-like, the humorous, and the playful. The Rhythm Art Duo specializes in presenting new percussion music in such a way that people of all ages can understand and enjoy it.  

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Britta Byström’s music feels spontaneous but is exceptionally well thought out - ascetic, but still playful . Like a Japanese garden. Britta Byström is a pronounced orchestral composer. Her list of works contains few works for voice, but an important exception is her chamber opera, If One Loses One’s Luggage. The final aria is sung by Patricia "from the other side”: Who among you shall leave your world? Britta Byström shows here how beautiful desolation can be. Impressionistic minimalism might it just be another possible description of Britta Byström’s musical world?  

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Is such a thing as nationality reflected in music composed today? Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ music bears the imprints of a youth spent in Russia. And although her work bears some traces of influence by Shostakovich and by the Minimalist School, this internationally sought-after composer likes to think of her musical voice as being simply her own. The scores of Victoria Borisova-Ollas are densely crafted with a strong narrative content. Her first symphony, entitled The Triumph of Heaven (2001), is her most decidedly Russian work. And she considers herself a storyteller, much in the vein of the Russian tradition .  

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Like other great jazz composers before him, Georg Riedel makes his tonal paintings with the colours of the individueal players. Individual indeed - here are some of the foremost voices in the history of Swedish jazz, The Swedish Radio Jazz Group including among othersJan Johansson, Arne Domnerus, Jan Allan, Lennart Åberg, Claes Rosendahl, Rune Gustafsson, Bosse Broberg, Nils Landgren, Egil Johansen.  

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Klas Lindquist had nine specific musicians in mind when he wrote this music. The different personalities and his style of writing forms the music on his first album. Here you can find traces of swing, bebop, Ellington and Strayhorn with emphasis on melody and beat . 

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Anders Jonhäll is an exceedingly sensitive musician whose contributions to the orchestra most often shine, whether it is Mozart or Boulez being performed. Common for the composers Per Mårtensson, André Chini, and Arne Mellnäs is a form of listening that is simultaneously both experimental and anchored in tradition. Also uniting the six workson this cd is a play around the meaning of virtuosity, its technical and human challenges, the meeting between the virtuoso and the lyrical.  

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Kent Olofsson is internationally known for his chamber music written in close collaboration with ensembles and musicians. Corde and The Bells culminations in his production, here series of works for guitar, percussion, choir, solovoices and chamber ensembles are melded together into a powerful synthetic conclusion. 

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Exciting beat in big band jazz by Per Tjernberg Per Tjernberg has released several recordings previously but this is the first cd-recording of his compositions for big band. Three drummers and Per Tjernberg himself on percussion gives an exciting beat to this big band with musicians from the Swedish jazz elite. Musicians: Ulf Adåker, Bengt Berger, Ulf Bjurenhed, Christer Bothén, Jonas Eklund, Åke Eriksson, Desmond Foster, Nils Janson, Klas Jervfors, Tommy Koverhult, Sven Larsson, Magnus Lindgren, Bernt Rosengren, Christian Spering, Bobo Stenson, Per Tjernberg, Mattias Ståhl, Magnus Wiklund, David Wilczewski, Morgan Ågren, Mats Öberg 

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The music in Drama was originally written for the theatre. Much of the inspiration for the works comes from a stage situation where the music functions as a counterpoint to the text and where returning motives become important cornerstones. The compositions were commissioned in connection with the respective productions at the Gothenburg City Theatre: Hamlet - premiere in 1997; Albert Speer - premiere in 2001 (at Stora Teatern); and The Tempest - premiere in 2002.  

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Here we can meet the entire Håkan Broström: a superb jazz soloist, an extremely talented songwriter whose melodies have the ability to "stick" and echo on within the listener, and one who can also handle an orchestral palette with verve. This is a CD that grows, revealing new aspects with each listening. It is music to which one often can return. 

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