This album includes both studio and live recordings, with some tracks recorded as early as 1998 and others as recently as 2021.
Composer Biography
Staffan Biörklund-Jullander, the composer and pianist on this album, was accepted into the Royal College of Music in Stockholm at the young age of 16.
Composition History
The Piano Concerto by Staffan Biörklund-Jullander was started during his studies at the Royal College of Music and completed in 1986, originally for full symphony orchestra.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Staffan Biörklund-Jullander's Piano Concerto is dedicated to the 'unknown reality' of musicians' constant practice, viewing it as a lifestyle that can also provide meditation.
Compositional Technique
Staffan Biörklund-Jullander's six piano trios are single-movement works, each about five minutes long, and were originally for piano, violin, and cello, but later adapted for viola.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Staffan Biörklund-Jullander, improvisation is his main creative focus, and he views playing from scores as a means to an end, while improvisation is where he works as an artist.
You might also enjoy...
Weir: Piano Concerto, Distance and Enchantment & Other Works
Keepsake of Modern Age
St Petersburg
Rachmaninov: Trio elegiaque No. 1 - Glinka: Trio pathétique in D Minor - Debussy: Piano Trio No. 1
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Berwald: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3
Tchaikovsky, Schnittke & Babajanian: Works for Piano Trio
