Fragaria Vesca - David Monrad Johansen: Chamber Music [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.David Monrad Johansen was central in the development of a nationally oriented music during interwar Norway. His Piano Quartet and the incidental music for 'The Great Peace' were composed during this period. To this day they have just existed in manuscript form, and this disc of Monrad Johansen's chamber music performed by the ensemble Fragaria Vesca presents the world premiere recordings of these two works.rr

In November 1913, Monrad Johansen finished his first and only Violin Sonata. The sonata was given a lukewarm reception at the time - hard to understand when heard today. For the composer, the elegiac second movement was an example of how the longing he felt for his childhood home-county Nordland could be expressed musically, a yearning which would become a source of inspiration and a creative force throughout his life.

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When the writer Hulda Garborg visited the USA in 1913, she became occupied with the fate of the Indian culture, and subsequently worked for three years with a large lyrical drama about the peace-loving Sioux-chief Hiawatha. Monrad Johansen began setting music to the drama, but the work was never realised on stage. Besides a version for mixed choir of the movement 'Indian Love Song', the music has rested in the archives of the Norwegian National Library - until now.

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The 1940s was a troublesome time for the composer, due to his membership in the Norwegian fascist party, Nasjonal Samling, and his post-war sentence for treason. The Piano Quartet, Op. 26, was written during his imprisonment, inspired by studies of fugues by Bach, Handel and Reger, and Beethoven's string quartets. The Piano Quartet is a hidden gem in 20th century Norwegian chamber music. In 1967, Monrad Johansen was asked to contribute a musical piece to the Norwegian Society of Composers' 50th anniversary, for which he wrote a grand Flute Quintet. It was to be his penultimate work, a piece which shows the composer forever searching for new musical expressions with imaginative development even to his final years.

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Personnel: Fragaria Vesca - Tor Johan Bxf8en, Alison Rayner (violin), Bxe9nxe9dicte Royer (viola), Aurxe9lienne Brauner (cello), Cecilie Hesselberg Lxf8ken (flute), Sanae Yoshida (piano)

Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in C major, op. 26, I. Allegro vivace

II. Andante sostenuto

III. Presto non troppo

IV. Vivace

Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 3, I. Allegro vivace

II. Adagio quasi Andante

III. Allegro risoluto

Incidental music for Den store freden (Hulda Garborg) for 2 Violins, Cello and Piano, Prelude 1st Act: Allegro moderato

Prelude 2nd Act: Indian Love Song. Andante

Prelude 3rd Act: Indian Warrior March. Allegro agitato

Prelude 4th Act: Atotarho. Grave, Allegro molto, pace 1

Prelude 5th Act: Sun Song. Moderato

Quintet for Flute, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello, Op. 35, I. Grave

II. Allegretto scherzando, Vivace

III. Largo

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 7033662013340

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