Hjalmar Borgstrøm: Violin Concerto & Two Symphonic Poems

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Release Date: 3rd May 2010
Catalogue No: PSC1311
Label: Simax
Length: 66 minutes

Hjalmar Borgström: Jesus In Gethsemane, Op. 14

Work length22:20

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Nils Anders Mortensen, The Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperaen
Terje Boye Hansen

Hjalmar Borgström: Die Nacht Der Toten, Op. 16

Work length9:49

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Jonas Båtstrand, The Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperaen
Terje Boye Hansen

Hjalmar Borgström: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In G Major, Op. 25, Mvt. 1

Work length14:43

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Jonas Båtstrand, The Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperaen
Terje Boye Hansen

Hjalmar Borgström: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In G Major, Op. 25, Mvt. 2

Work length8:49

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$2.10

The Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperaen, Jonas Båtstrand
Terje Boye Hansen

Hjalmar Borgström: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In G Major, Op. 25, Mvt. 3

Work length11:01

$2.00

$2.80

The Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperaen, Jonas Båtstrand
Terje Boye Hansen

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Over the past 10 years the music of Hjalmar Borgstrøm, a Norwegian composer who wrote around the turn of the 20th century, has been rediscovered by performers and audiences. The three pieces on this new CD, the two symphonic poems “Jesus in Gethsemane” and “Die Nacht der Toten”, as well as the highly melodic Violin Concerto are receiving their World Premiere Recordings. Violinist Jonas Båtstrand, and pianist Nils Anders Mortensen are joined by the Symphony Orchestra of NorrlandsOperan and conductor Terje Boye Hansen.

Norwegian composer Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1864–1925) studied with the Swedish composer Johannes Svendsen, and although his music stands at the point of intersection between neo-romanticism and expressionism, it is far more classical in form than many of his European contemporaries. However, Borgstrøm also idolized Wagner, and was an ardent champion of programme music. Jesus in Gethsemane was premiered in Kristiania in 1904, and performed many times after that. In his written programme notes, Borgstrøm uses text from all four gospels, describing the agony of Jesus the night before the crucifixion. The Night of the Dead was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1905, but has never been performed in Norway. Along the lines of Saint-Säens’s Dance Macabre, the work takes place in a cemetery around midnight… Premiered in 1914 with Leif Halvorsen as soloist, Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto has only been performed twice since. The work is highly imaginative and reveals how the composer uses all the elements of music to give it a narrative style.

Hjalmar Borgstrøm: Violin Concerto & Two Symphonic Poems

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