Göran Marcusson - The Romantic Swedish Flute

IMCD 018
Recorded at Gothenburg Concert Hall
in June & September 1992

Producer:
Jan Johansson
Recording Engineer:
Michael Bergek

Göran Marcusson - Flute
Thord Svedlund - Conductor
Strings from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Göran Marcusson began playing the flute at the municipal music school in Södertälje, Sweden. After studying musicology at Stockholm University, he was accepted as a flute student in the performance program at the School of Music of the University of Göteborg. He completed his studies with a Masters degree, followed by a soloist's diploma in 1992. He has won a number of prizes in international musich competitions, which have provided him with the opportunity to concertize internationally. On these occasions, he almost always has Swedish music on his programs.

Two Romantic composers hold a special place in the hearts of the Swedish people: HUGO ALFVEN and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Alfven is most appreciated for his pictorial orchestral work Midsummer Vigil, as well as Spring in Roslag, a polka, and Sweden's Flag, which has become almost a second Swedish national anthem.

WILHELM PETERSON-BERGER was virtually Alfven`s contemporary, his music has practically never made an impact outside Sweden. His romances and choir songs are, however, often performed in Sweden, and Frösö flowers is frequently performed, not least by amateurs.

KURT ATTERBERG may be the Swedish composer whose work has been most performed abroad. Conductors including Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Megelberg, Toscanini, Furtwängler, Beecham and Stokowski have conducted his orchestral pieces. At home, he made important contributions to Swedish music and musicians in central respects over the course of several decades.

At the age of twenty and with a letter of recommendation from Carl Nielsen addressed to Artur Honegger in his hand, GUNNAR DE FRUMERIE arrived in Paris. He studied the piano there under Alfred Cortot, and came into close contact with the stylistic manner known as neo-baroque, characterized by a return to the forms that were particularly popular during the baroque era, the rhythmic patterns of the suite and dances like the gavotte, the saraband, the siciliano.

Hugo Alfvén Vallflickans dans W. Peterson-Berger Sommarsång Till Rosorna Gratulatuion Lawn Tennis Frösö kyrka Rebtrée Kurt Atterberg Adagio Amoroso Gösta Nystroem Lento Allegro Adagio Canto semplice Molto ritmico Gunnar de Frumerie Preludium Gavotte Sarabande Sicilienne Finale