Coming Releases
Published on September 18, 2025
dBCD218: Alfvén, Hugo - Complete Orchestral Songs
The composer, violinist and conductor, Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960) is a kind of national composer in Sweden. His tonal language is very much romantic nationalism and his period of glory ranges from the late 1890s until the mid-1920s. He was active in all imaginable genres, such as symphonic works, chamber music, choirs, solo instruments, and his many songs are still widely performed today. Several songs are available in different arrangements, partly for voice and piano, partly with orchestra in different settings. The great majority of the orchestral song versions presented on this album are first recordings, performed by a dream team of singers: Kerstin Avemo and Sabina Bisholt, sopranos; Tobias Westman, tenor; Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, baritone. The Göteborg Opera Orchestra is conducted by one of Sweden's foremost conductors, Patrik Ringborg.
Release date: September 19th, 2025.
dBCD219: Beyond Schubert, Vol. 1 – Schubert vs. Andrée
Peter Friis Johansson is one of Sweden's most brilliant pianists right now. He has not least won recognition for more than a decade for his cycles of Franz Schubert's complete piano sonatas. Now that he has finally started recording them under the title 'Beyond Schubert' it is with an unusual approach. Not only does he perform from original manuscripts, and even completes unfinished sonatas – he also combines some of the sonatas with high quality works by Swedish composers that somehow are connected to Schubert's. On this first volume, the charming A Major Sonata, Op. 3, by Sweden's grand old lady, Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929), is placed next to Schubert's equally charming sonata in the same key (D 664). This album starts, however, with Schubert's big A Minor Sonata (D 845), spectacularly performed by Peter.
Release date: October 17th, 2025.
The composer, violinist and conductor, Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960) is a kind of national composer in Sweden. His tonal language is very much romantic nationalism and his period of glory ranges from the late 1890s until the mid-1920s. He was active in all imaginable genres, such as symphonic works, chamber music, choirs, solo instruments, and his many songs are still widely performed today. Several songs are available in different arrangements, partly for voice and piano, partly with orchestra in different settings. The great majority of the orchestral song versions presented on this album are first recordings, performed by a dream team of singers: Kerstin Avemo and Sabina Bisholt, sopranos; Tobias Westman, tenor; Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, baritone. The Göteborg Opera Orchestra is conducted by one of Sweden's foremost conductors, Patrik Ringborg.
Release date: September 19th, 2025.
dBCD219: Beyond Schubert, Vol. 1 – Schubert vs. Andrée
Peter Friis Johansson is one of Sweden's most brilliant pianists right now. He has not least won recognition for more than a decade for his cycles of Franz Schubert's complete piano sonatas. Now that he has finally started recording them under the title 'Beyond Schubert' it is with an unusual approach. Not only does he perform from original manuscripts, and even completes unfinished sonatas – he also combines some of the sonatas with high quality works by Swedish composers that somehow are connected to Schubert's. On this first volume, the charming A Major Sonata, Op. 3, by Sweden's grand old lady, Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929), is placed next to Schubert's equally charming sonata in the same key (D 664). This album starts, however, with Schubert's big A Minor Sonata (D 845), spectacularly performed by Peter.
Release date: October 17th, 2025.