Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
LabelCaprice RecordsGenreComposition
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The Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, one of Sweden’s most interesting groups performing contemporary music, consists of the four saxophone players Sven Westerberg, Jörgen Pettersson, Leif Karlborg and Per Hedlund.
During the 1980s and 1990s the group developed into a very attractive ensemble for contemporary music. The four dedicated musicians have stubbornly sizzled out their technique and freed themselves from the lack of repertoire and the neo classical conventions of the genre. Together with a row of composers they have created a new power zone in contemporary Swedish music.
In the work by Henrik Strindberg “Hjärtats slag” (Heartbeat) Michael Pettersson plays the flute. In Göran Gamstorp’s “Barnet i skogen” (The Child in the Forest) the mezzo soprano Boel Adler sings, and in “The Green Rose” by Anders Eliasson we listen to the soprano Iwa Sörenson and the percussionist Leif Karlsson directed by Leif Lyng.
Release notes
Recorded in Studio 3, Swedish National Radio, 9-11 April 1990 (Gamstorp, Mellnäs, Strindberg) 9-10 October 1990 (Karkoff, Lundquist, Morthenson), 5-6 November 1990 (Bäck, Eliasson, Rydberg). With a 16-page booklet with notes in Swedish and English, and with lyrics in Swedish. -- CD booklet contains paper insert: "Errata: 'Concitato' by Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist was written for alto saxophone solo and is played by Jörgen Pettersson. CAP 21399". Main booklet text gives title of track 2 as: …
| 1 | Hjärtats Slag = Heartbeat (For Saxophone Quartet And Flute) | 7:05 | |
| 2 | Concitato | 4:19 | |
| 3 | Stampede (For Saxophone Quartet) | 6:12 | |
| 4 | Barnet I Skogen = The Child In The Forest - Barn I Stjärnljus = Children In Starlight (For Mezzo-Soprano And Saxophone Quartet) | 9:25 | |
| 5 | Illuminated Bodies (For Saxophone And Tape) | 14:07 | |
| 6 | Ricercare (For Saxophone Quartet) | 8:35 | |
| 7 | Dithyramb (Version For Alto Saxophone) | 3:48 | |
| 8 | Den Gröna Rosen = The Green Rose (For Soprano, Saxophone Quartet And Percussion) | 11:10 | |
| 9 | Hymn (For Saxophone Quartet) | 3:32 |
- Jörgen Pettersson
- Alto Saxophone
- Per Hedlund
- Baritone Saxophone
- Pontus Reuterswärd
- Design
- Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
- Ensemble
- Jan Kask
- Executive-Producer, Editor
- Göran Bergendal
- Liner Notes
- Bertil Alving
- Producer, Engineer
- Sven Westerberg
- Soprano Saxophone
- Leif Karlborg
- Tenor Saxophone
