{"product_id":"wennerberg-reuter-stenhammar-hallen","title":"Wennerberg-Reuter, Stenhammar \u0026 Hallen","description":"Pianist Peter Friis Johansson has brought together  renowned musicians, including violinist Johan Dalene  and soprano Sofie Asplund, for a programme that  juxtaposes three generations of Swedish composers. The  vocal and chamber works performed here testify to the  special place these genres occupy in Swedish art music  and to the vitality of musical societies in the early  twentieth century, which sparked an interest that went  far beyond easily digestible music.    Andreas Hallen is the oldest of the composers featured  here. His Piano Quartet shows great confidence despite  being an early work. Like many composers of his  generation, Hallen readily incorporates folk elements.  Wilhelm Stenhammar produced an important and  varied body of work. His Violin Sonata is a work that  reflects the ideals of his German education: it is absolute  music without any explicit extra-musical narrative  content, a 'synthesis of classicism and sensitive poetry',  as his first biographer put it. Sara Wennerberg-Reuter is  the least-known of the three, and many of her scores  remain unpublished. Stockholm's only female organist  with a permanent position, she left behind a varied body  of work spanning a wide range of styles. She distanced  herself from her contemporaries with a musical style  that focused on melody, a commodity she felt had by  then become scarce.","brand":"BIS","offers":[{"title":"SACD","offer_id":50568508309784,"sku":"7318599926865","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4439229-3412891.jpg?v=1777481955","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/wennerberg-reuter-stenhammar-hallen","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}