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Helena Munktell: I Firenze

Joel Annmo, Frederik Zetterstrom, Marcus Jupither, Niklas Bjorling, Susanna Andersson, Torbjorn Lillieqvist, Fredrik Zetterstrom, Jenny Ohlson Akre, Bjorn Gafvert, Michael Engstrom, Stefan Therstam

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sveriges Radiokören, KFUM Kammarkör, Tobias Ringborg, Hans Vainikainen,...

Release Date: 4th Feb 2022
Catalogue No: CDO1127
Label: Sterling
Length: 64 minutes

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Munktell: I Firenze

Work length47:48

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Joel Annmo, Frederik Zetterstrom, Marcus Jupither, Niklas Bjorling, Susanna Andersson, Torbjorn Lillieqvist, Fredrik Zetterstrom
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sveriges Radiokören
Tobias Ringborg

I. Overture

Track length3:50

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II. Tror ni en kvinna så lätt kan glömma

Track length2:18

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III. En sådan bikt man aldrig glömmer

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IV. O ja, nu tavlan färdig är

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V. Min fru, nu jag är på det klara

Track length4:49

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VI. O, fagra barn, du som mitt hjärta tog

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VII. Försvunnen, min sol!

Track length3:12

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VIII. Signor, signor

Track length4:58

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IX. Som ingen hyra än jag fått

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X. Mitt herrskap, om ni veta vill

Track length6:18

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XI. Ännu ett ord, Stefano, jag er ber

Track length5:31

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Munktell: Cantata

Work length8:20

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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jenny Ohlson Akre, Bjorn Gafvert, Michael Engstrom
Sveriges Radiokören
Hans Vainikainen

Munktell: Women's Choirs at the Pianoforte

Work length8:00

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Stefan Therstam
KFUM Kammarkör
Håkan Boström

I. Maj

Track length3:10

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II. Äppelträdets visa

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III. Hymn

Track length2:56

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"This premiere Sterling recording features the works of Helena Munktell, a renowned female composer, and performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Tobias Ringborg as conductor; the Radio Choir with Hans Vainikainen; and finally, the KFUM Chamber Choir with Hakan Bostrom. In the spring of 1889, the magazine Svensk Musiktidning reported that an opéra-comique entitled I Firenze [In Florence] would be performed at the Royal Opera in Stockholm later in the season. The music was composed by Helena Munktell, 'who has done extensive music studies in Paris and who has previously made a reputation as a composer through songs, and also a work for orchestra'. The libretto to this one-act opera, which takes place in an artist’s studio in 15th-century Florence, was said to have been written by Daniel Fallström, a popular writer and journalist at the time. A first performance is always a great occurrence, and the opera genre was the most artistically prestigious. In addition: this was the first opera written by a Swedish female composer, ow to be performed in the ancient Gustavian opera building. Up to then, it was mainly Helena Munktell’s romances that were publicly heard, and she was considered having a sensitive feeling for the human voice. She was taught singing and knew how to shape the vocal parts to suit well. There were many singers in her circle of friends, and when they performed her romances, she was often the accompanist. Although Helena Munktell, like other female composers, encountered opposition from male colleagues, she at long last received recognition also from those in power in the Swedish music life. In 1915, she was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and consequently she was the first woman to be elected solely on merits as a composer. And when the Swedish Society of Composers was formed in 1918, she was the only woman among the 38 founders."

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Joel Annmo, Frederik Zetterstrom, Marcus Jupither, Niklas Bjorling, Susanna Andersson, Torbjorn Lillieqvist, Fredrik Zetterstrom, Jenny Ohlson Akre, Bjorn Gafvert, Michael Engstrom, Stefan Therstam

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sveriges Radiokören, KFUM Kammarkör, Tobias Ringborg, Hans Vainikainen, Håkan Boström

Helena Munktell: I Firenze

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