Christina Astrand: Romance | Dacapo 6220652

Christina Astrand: Romance

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Label: Dacapo

Cat No: 6220652

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th November 2020

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About

Christina Åstrand’s album Romance brings together a personal selection of rarely heard items from the classical Danish repertoire for violin. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, the violin enjoyed a star moment of its own as the ‘singing’ instrument par excellence. Under the direction of Jukka Iisakkila, Christina Åstrand and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra prove to be ideal interpreters of this kind of music, poised between charm and soulfulness.

Around 1900 the romance , initially used in connection with poetry and lieder that emulated folk songs, now also became a violin genre. The violin could similarly sing a berceuse (lullaby) and a barcarole (a Venetian boat song). In Denmark, several composers created a marvellous repertoire of short, melodic pieces for the violin violin.

The Danish violin works contributed their own accent, often a little introverted and sometimes with influences from Nordic folk music.

The Danish romances for violin have slumbered for many years, primarily because romantic music as such experienced a violent decline in Denmark during long periods of the 20th century.

In this album, highly renowned violinist and concert master of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Christina Åstrand, has collected collected a personal selection of this repertoire – several of the works found in the archives of the Danish National Library, having never been published or recorded before.

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