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Per Baeckstroem <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I just got a link to Amazon.com on another list from someone who had
>written a review and came to think of a review I have written myself
>about IMO wonderful songs by John Fernstroem sung by a young soprano
>I adore, Miah Persson. Here is a link, which I hope works. If not I
>suggest you go to Amazon and search for Fernstroem, Songs of the Sea.
I have never heard any songs by Fernstroem (What does he sing?). But I
like the String Quartetts very much. I consider his String Quartetts to
belong to the finest ever composed by a Swede. This would place him beside
Stenhammar, but thats a bit quirky, as his style is a little original, so
a comparision doesn't fall out very well. It is like comparing Janacek
with anyone else. Ferstroem is an impressionist BTW - I hear some DeBussy,
but also Nielsen in him, although he is very original.
Particulary I like the 3rd Quartett. It is a masterwork of structure, in
a way that reminds of Edwin Kallstenius symphonical work, meanwhile feeling
sponatneous, and humouristic. And humor could be quirky to build into a
"perfect" structure without breaking it. Beethoven could of course do
that.
Don't like his paintings.
Mats Norrman
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