{"product_id":"650900","title":"Fragaria Vesca - David Monrad Johansen: Chamber Music [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid 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.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonnel: Fragaria Vesca - Tor Johan B\\xf8en, Alison Rayner (violin), B\\xe9n\\xe9dicte Royer (viola), Aur\\xe9lienne Brauner (cello), Cecilie Hesselberg L\\xf8ken (flute), Sanae Yoshida (piano)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in C major, op. 26, I. Allegro vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Andante sostenuto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Presto non troppo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 3, I. Allegro vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Adagio quasi Andante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Allegro risoluto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncidental music for Den store freden (Hulda Garborg) for 2 Violins, Cello and Piano, Prelude 1st Act: Allegro moderato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude 2nd Act: Indian Love Song. Andante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude 3rd Act: Indian Warrior March. Allegro agitato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude 4th Act: Atotarho. Grave, Allegro molto, pace 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude 5th Act: Sun Song. Moderato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuintet for Flute, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello, Op. 35, I. Grave\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Allegretto scherzando, Vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Largo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55164595700097,"sku":"650900","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51mGn36wudL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768020132","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/650900","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}