Scandinavia

This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from August 30, 2013. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/Pcast120

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Normally, our throwback montages correspond to our daily musical calendar podcast. This week, however, the musical calendar selection is from our Tuesday series, which gives us the opportunity to peak into the Podcast Vault for something we haven’t listened to for awhile.

In summers past, we shared montages as part of a recurring series we called The Musical Passport – montages that explore an area of the world, often using pieces from non-native composers. What was unique about our feature this week – Scandinavia – is that all of the composers are Scandinavian: Nielsen, Grieg, Sibelius and Sweden’s Dag Wirén.

I make a point to distinguish Sweden because the first three composers are generally thought of as “National” composers for Denmark, Norway and Finland respectively. However, there is no consensus National composer for Sweden.

As our bonus track this week, I thought I’d add to Wirén and Franz Berwald as Swedish composers of renown by adding Lars-Erik Larsson (1908 –1986), a contemporary of Wiren’s who also studied at the Stockholm Conservatory.

Music for Orchestra (1948-49)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sylvain Cambreling (Conductor)

I think you will (still) love this music too.