SACD, Stenhammar (composer)

This disc is special. Whether it’s the frisson of live performance or the fact that Blomstedt came to these scores late in life and is radiating the joy of discovery, I can’t say. What I do... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

Pure post-Romantic Scandi loveliness – great tunes, lush orchestrations and a fun fugue. What more could you want of a dull January day? The Antwerps are on form. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Camilla Tilling uses her light lyric soprano to trace the echoes and glints of folksong in the melodic shape and harmonic underpinning of many of these songs of the North. Minimal vibrato and... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Lindberg and the Flemish musicians audibly relish [the Serenade's] subtle construction...A marvellous disc which makes fine introduction to a marvellous composer. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

Whatever the composer’s mood or manner, from full- throated vocal cries to intimate chamber delicacies, Jӓrvi clearly believes in this music. So does the Gotherburg Symphony, the orchestra Stenhammar... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…