SKU: HL.268915

Sadie Harrison is known primarily as a composer and lecturer, her music performed and broadcast across the globe, with works released to critical acclaim on Naxos, NMC, Cadenza, Sargasso, BML, Divine Art/Metier, and Clarinet Classics. For several years, she also pursued a secondary career as an archaeologist, specialising initially in the Irish Neolithic, and latterly in the prestige pottery of the Continental Bronze Age (also appearing on Channel 4's Time Team). Reflecting her interest in the past, many of Sadie's compositions have been inspired by the traditional music of old and extant cultures with cycles of pieces based on the folkmusic of Afghanistan, Lithuania, the Isle of Skye, the Northern Caucasus and the UK.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14761

This collection of character pieces by Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish composers is a good illustration of the fact that there is plenty to discover in those areas of Europe that more rarely enjoy the limelight. The composers featured in this volume were all famous in their day, and not only participated in European musical life but also helped to shape it: the Norwegian Agathe Backer-Grondahl, for example, was a pupil of Ferenc Liszt and Hans von Bülow, the Swede Ludvig Norman was also an outstanding concert pianist, and Niels Wilhelm Gade was the most important Danish romantic composer, conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and a friend of Mendelssohn andSchumann.

Die Sammlung an Charakterstücken von schwedischen, finnischen, norwegischen und dänischen Komponisten zeigt auch gut, dass man sehr wohl in den Gebieten Europas vieles entdecken kann, die weniger in Rampenlicht stehen. Die Meister des Bandes waren zu ihrer Zeit nicht nur berühmte Komponisten und am europäischen Musiklebens beteiligt, sie beeinflussten es auch. Beispielsweise war die Norwegerin Agathe Backer-Grondahl eine Schülerin von Franz Liszt und Hans von Bülow, der Schwede Ludvig Norman war selbst ein ausgezeichneter Pianist. Niels Wilhelm Gade, der bedeutendste romantische Komponist Dänemarks, war Dirigent des Leipziger Gewandhausorchesters und Freund von Mendelssohn undSchumann.