nosagCD 194 - JOHAN HAMMERTH PIANO PRELUDES
- STEFAN LINDGREN

This is the first volume of a complete edition on CD of Piano Preludes by Swedish composer Johan Hammerth. The composer himself writes about his preludes:

"The Prelude genre appeals to me - free, however yet structure and thought. Schostakovich´s preludes and fugues are something I often study, and it was because of the discovery of this music I decided to compose piano preludes. 1999 I wrote 24 preludes. This has given me a taste for more, I keep on going, I have to, an ongoing process. The first 24 Preludes emanate from four basic moods, with six different expressions. Some of them have an affinity with each other. Prelude 25-32 are original compositions for the left hand, dedicated to Thomas Tranströmer; moods that draws heavily on the great poet’s lyricism. These pieces I play almost daily, with both hands. So here is a choice. While I am today (Dec. 2010) getting close to prelude 48, composing preludes is as inspiring as at the start in 1999. It’s been 11 years since I wrote Prelude 1 and probably these cycles are contributing to my development and, above all, my relationship deepened with my own instrument, the piano, and today I can barely imagine life without a new prelude."

The virtuoso pianist Stefan Lindgren, also a composer - very handy when it comes to interpreting complicated works by a collegue - plays 17 of the 48 preludes on this CD. On Volume 2 (nosag CD194b), released in the Spring of 2011, another 12 preludes are recorded - among them two written in 2011!

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Hammerth: Prelude #33


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CONTENTS:

1 Preludium 1 1999 4´53
2 Preludium 3 1999 5´12
3 Preludium 5 1999 6´41
4 Preludium 7 1999 4´40
5 Preludium 8 1999 3´50
6 Preludium 11 1999 3´50
7 Preludium 12 1999 4´36
8 Preludium 25 2008 3´48
9 Preludium 26 2008 3´31
10 Preludium 27 2008 5´43
11 Preludium 28 2008 4´16
12 Preludium 30 2008 3´55
13 Preludium 31 2008 6´42
14 Preludium 32 2008 4´00
15 Preludium 33 2010 5´31
16 Preludium 34 2010 4´37
17 Preludium 36 2010 3´38
  total 79´25




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