Ida Falk Winland, the soprano on this album, has performed at leading opera houses such as Covent Garden and Teatro alla Scala, and is a permanent member of the Gothenburg Opera ensemble.
Composer Biography
Alice Tegnér, despite her musical talents, was expected by her husband, Jakob Tegnér, to be an ordinary, non-public wife, which was a source of sadness in her life.
Composer Biography
Gustaf Nordqvist, born 22 years after Alice Tegnér, came from a working-class Baptist family in Stockholm and began studying organ, piano, and composition at the conservatory at age 15.
Instruments
The Norrby kyrka in Sala, where this album was recorded, features an 1887 E.A. Setterquist & Son organ, which was renovated in 1982.
Composer Biography
Alice Tegnér, born in 1864, received financial assistance to attend a good school in Stockholm after her ship's captain father died at sea when she was 15.
Recording & Production
This recording was made in November 2014 at Norrby kyrka, a church in Sala, Sweden, which houses a well-preserved Setterquist organ from the 1880s.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gustaf Nordqvist primarily set Swedish and Finnish-Swedish poems to music, believing it unnecessary to look for inspiration elsewhere when there was so much beautiful poetry in his own language.
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