Back to StockHome

Featuring

Malin Broman
Rick Stotijn
James Gaffigan
Simon Crawford-Phillips
Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
Västerås Sinfonietta

Britta Byström
Eduard Tubin
Jesper Nordin
Carin Malmlöf-Forssling

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Britta Byström's "Infinite Rooms" was inspired by the mirror installations of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, where a small detail is infinitely replicated.

Instruments

Rick Stotijn performs on a double bass by Raffaele and Antonio Gagliano from Naples, 1846, and Malin Broman plays a Stradivarius violin from 1709 and a Bajoni viola from 1861.

Composition History

Eduard Tubin's Double Bass Concerto was commissioned by Estonian virtuoso Ludvig Juht, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, whom Tubin met in Stockholm in 1947.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Britta Byström's "Walks" series, including three pieces on this album, are musical journeys towards specific works by other composers, incorporating short quotations from those pieces.

Compositional Technique

Jesper Nordin's Trio for Violin, Double Bass and Piano is based on a Swedish folk wedding march, incorporating drones and quarter-tones, which were called 'blue notes' in Swedish folk music long before the blues genre.

Compositional Technique

In Britta Byström's "Infinite Rooms," each of the first six movements is followed by an orchestral 'infinity room' that repeats a detail from the preceding movement, and one section even includes a bowed saw.

Album & Artwork

The album title "Back to StockHome" refers to the fact that all featured composers lived and worked in Stockholm at some point, and the BIS record label is also based there.