Special offer. Larsson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Andrew Manze
Urbane, colourful pieces by a 20th-century Swedish Romantic, overshadowed by the serialist avant-garde. The Symphony, written when he was 20, already has an individual voice, and Manze wins...
Special offer. Larsson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Andrew Manze
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Urbane, colourful pieces by a 20th-century Swedish Romantic, overshadowed by the serialist avant-garde. The Symphony, written when he was 20, already has an individual voice, and Manze wins...
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Larsson currently continues to number among the most popular composers of classical modernism in Sweden. Their popularity of course is explained in part by the fact that both continued to abide by the tradition of tonality without being epigonic reactionaries. Andrew Manze, to whom cpo owes a wonderfully inspired edition of the Brahms symphonies, is now presenting a new recording with Larsson’s most important symphonic works as performed by his very own Helsingborg Orchestra.
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Awards and reviews
November 2014
Urbane, colourful pieces by a 20th-century Swedish Romantic, overshadowed by the serialist avant-garde. The Symphony, written when he was 20, already has an individual voice, and Manze wins us over.
Awards Issue 2014
The writing is undeniably deft, not least in the handling of the orchestra, and full of lyric appeal and charm...splendidly idiomatic playing from the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra under the inspiring direction of departing Chief Conductor Andrew Manze, who has developed into one of the most gifted present-day occupants of the podium. CPO's sound is gorgeous.
25th June 2014
Music of substance and stature, eloquently played and beautifully recorded; a new and significant journey has just begun.
