Hallberg - Concert Overture, Symphony in F; Dente - Symphony in D minor | Sterling CDS1120

Hallberg - Concert Overture, Symphony in F; Dente - Symphony in D minor

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Label: Sterling

Cat No: CDS1120

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th July 2019

Contents

Artists

Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Per Engstrom
Ola Karlsson

Works

Dente, Joseph

Symphony in D minor

Hallberg, Bengt

Concert Overture no.2 in F major
Symphony in F major

Artists

Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Per Engstrom
Ola Karlsson

About

Represented on this disc are two Swedish composers from the late 19th century, who despite contemporary recognition usually do not count among the still enduring and current. Joseph Dente, after having taken the position as Master of the The Royal Court Orchestra, reached the highest rank a composer could then get in Sweden, when he in 1882 became teacher in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In the case of Bengt Wilhelm Hallberg it was certainly quite simply his daily activities in the “small town” Landskrona (in the southern province Skåne) – he was not visible from the out-look of Stockholm, where “everything happened”, and a few occasional successes in Copenhagen did not give any greater reputation further north. But above all, the opportunities to get their music noticed, performed and printed were extremely limited, particularly for those composers who wanted to write orchestral and chamber music – still there was only one single professional orchestra in Sweden, The Royal Court Orchestra. It is therefore hardly surprising that composers in symphonic format were comparatively few; both Hallberg and Dente remained “non-recurrent symphonists”.

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