GODARD BOELLMANN
Cello Sonatas Mats Lidstrom (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Unfamiliar yet instantly captivating repertoire leaves you wondering why you'd never heard this music before |
FERNEYHOUGH
Shadowtime - a thought-opera Mats Scheidegger (guitar) / Nicholas Hodges (piano & speaker) / Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart / Nieuw Ensemble / Jurjen Hempel (conductor) [ NMC / 2 CD - released 14/May/2006 ] "Wonderful sounds,musical moves that tell, technical exigence turned to eloquence: I listened spellbound." Andrew Porter, Times Literary Supplement |
HOGBERG / SANDSTROM / AHO
21st-Century Tuba Concertos Oystein Baadsvik (tuba) / Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra / Mats Rondin [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Øystein Baadsvik started playing the tuba at the age of fifteen. He soon decided to explore the tuba's possibilities as a solo instrument and, at the age of eighteen, he won the first prize in a Norwegian national competition for soloists. |
FRANZ BERWALD
Berwald: Complete Duos Tobias Ringborg, David Bergstrom, Mats Rondin, Bengt-Åke Lundin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] "The Duo for Cello and Piano (1857), played persuasively by Mats Rondin and Bengt-Ake Lundin, alludes to material from the A minor Quartet. In both the Duo and the Quartet the piano is hyperactive..he playing throughout is accomplished" Penguin Guide |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Trios Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay (violin) & Mats Lidstrom (cello) [ Decca / CD - released 16/Aug/2013 ] Ashkenazy Completes Lifelong Project To Record Each Of Rachmaninov's Works With Piano. Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, crowns his lifelong project to record each of Rachmaninov's works with piano... |