Browse: Download, Stenhammar (composer)

Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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 know... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 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…

Grieg’s Second Sonata sounds gorgeously, openly melancholic. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

this new recording is more romantic and rhapsodic...This is music not just for Nordic specialists and should be investigated. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 More…

The performances, with Hannu Koivula conducting the Gävle Symphony, make up in atmosphere for what they occasionally lack in refinement, and the ballads are sensationally sung by Karl-Magnus... — The Guardian, 7th October 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A charming and repeatable release where No. 6, especially, deserves to be better known. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

Manze was a shrewd choice of conductor, as was Seta Tanyel as soloist, a pianist whose lyrical grace is matched by a no-holds-barred bravura… — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…