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Featuring: Bengt Hambraeus, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Karl-Erik Welin, Anders Eliasson, André Chini

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

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One of the finest anthology LPs to emerge from Caprice's long engagement with Swedish contemporary music - a document of five composers spanning three generations, united under the banner of the Nutida Musik broadcasts that had served since the early 1950s as Swedish Radio's principal vehicle for new music dissemination. Bengt Hambraeus (1928-2000) had been instrumental in bringing electronic music to Sweden, visiting the Cologne studio in 1954 before Stockhausen and becoming the key figure in the establishment of the Swedish Radio Electroacoustic Studio; his later move to Canada (McGill University, 1972) only intensified the international character of his practice. Atli Heimir Sveinsson (born 1938) brought the Icelandic voice - post-Darmstadt in formation, deeply individual in result.

Karl-Erik Welin (1934-1992) was among the most radical performer-composers of the Swedish avant-garde: a pianist and organist whose concerts became events of challenging theatrical intensity, his music pushing the instruments' physical possibilities to the edge and beyond, his stage presence combining extreme seriousness with a kind of dangerous unpredictability. Anders Eliasson (1947-2013) and André Chini complete the set with works that suggest the range of compositional approaches flourishing in Sweden at the end of the 1970s - from the densely chromatic to the more openly lyrical. Caprice, CAP 1183.