Cristina Ortiz, the pianist on this recording, was the first woman and youngest artist to win first prize in the Van Cliburn Competition in Texas in 1969.
Composition History
The first performance of Stenhammar's Piano Concerto No. 2 took place in Gothenburg in 1908, with the composer himself conducting.
Composition History
Stenhammar's Piano Concerto No. 2 was composed between 1904 and 1907 and completed in Florence, where he lived during that period.
Compositional Technique
In the Piano Concerto No. 2, Stenhammar emphasizes the contrast between the piano and orchestra by writing the piano part in a different key from the orchestra at the end of the first movement.
Cultural Impact
After Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian author, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, there was a significant 'Tagore boom' in Sweden.
Composer Biography
Wilhelm Stenhammar, the composer, also studied for a year in Berlin with H. Barth, who was one of Arthur Rubinstein's teachers.
Composer Biography
Wilhelm Stenhammar, the composer, began his musical career as a pianist and studied with the well-known Swedish teacher Richard Andersson.
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