Browse: 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 know... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

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…

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…

[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 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…

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…

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…

The Stenhammars conclude the first-ever complete cycle of their namesake's quartets on disc with characteristically energetic and well-explored readings of his first two essays in the genre. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…