Bengt Hambraeus
Rota II / Ricordanza / Symphonia Sacra
LabelCaprice RecordsGenreComposition
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The 20th issue in the Caprice Composers Series is a portrait of the composer Bengt Hambræus containing the following compositions: 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 “encyclopedic” orchestral composition, alluding to the composer’s own works, commissioned by the then Institute for National Concerts with the needs of small professional symphony orchestras in mind and first performed by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in 1977.
Symphonia Sacra for mixed choir, wind instruments and percussion was commissioned for the McGill Chamber Singers and is dedicated to their conductor, Fred Stoltzfus. The main text is a dramatic narrative of the passion and death of Christ.
Release notes
"Rota II" produced at the Siemens Studio for Electronic Music, Munich, April 1963. Organ Sounds were prerecorded at Mariae Himmelfahrt Kirche, Munich. Previously issued on CAP 1007. "Ricordanza per Orchestra" was recorded at Hörsalen, Norrköping 1977-07-13. Previously issued on CAP 1137. "Symphonia sacra in tempore passionis" was recorded in Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montréal, 14-15 March 1987. With a 16-page booklet with notes in English.
| 1 | Rota II (1963) | 12:28 | |
| 2 | Ricordanza Per Orchestra (1975-76) | 21:10 | |
| Symphonia Sacra In Tempore Passionis (1985-86) | |||
| 3 | I Traditio | 6:34 | |
| 4 | II Inquisitio; Ad Mortem | 24:13 | |
| 5 | III Lux Aeterna | 4:17 | |
- Alain Duguay
- Baritone Vocals (3 to 5)
- Michael Lachance
- Bass Vocals (3 to 5)
- McGill Chamber Singers
- Chorus (3 to 5)
- Bengt Hambraeus
- Composed By, Liner Notes, Sounds [Organ Sounds, Prerecorded] (1), Supervised By (3 to 5)
- Francis Travis
- Conductor (2)
- Fred Stolzfus
- Conductor (3 to 5)
- Lars Silén
- Executive-Producer, Editor
- Bo Alphonce
- Liner Notes
- Göran Bergendal
- Liner Notes
- Claire Mallin
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals (3 to 5)
- Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestra (2)
- McGill Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestra [Instrumental Ensemble] (3 to 5)
- Håkan Elmquist
- Producer (2)
- Madeleine Palmer
- Soprano Vocals (3 to 5)
- Jacques Desjours
- Tenor Vocals (3 to 5)
