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• Britta Byström (b. 1977):
• 1 Byström: 4 Walks: No. 3, A Walk to Schubert 02:14
• Eduard Tubin (1905 - 1982): Double Bass Concerto:
• 2 Tubin: Double Bass Concerto: I. Allegro con moto 06:24
• 3 Tubin: Double Bass Concerto: II. Andante sostenuto 01:40
• 4 Tubin: Double Bass Concerto: III. Tempo primo 05:05
• 5 Tubin: Double Bass Concerto: IV. Allegro non troppo, poco marciale 05:29
• Britta Byström: 4 Walks (Excerpts):
• 6 Byström: 4 Walks (Excerpts): No. 1, A Walk to Bruckner 02:43
• Britta Byström: Infinite Rooms:
• 7 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Leggiero 05:02
• 8 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Grazioso 03:58
• 9 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Calmo 03:15
• 10 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Quarter Note = 100 04:31
• 11 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Calmo, cantando 04:40
• 12 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Ritmico 04:50
• 13 Byström: Infinite Rooms: Dolce 02:43
• Britta Byström: 4 Walks (Excerpts):
• 14 Byström: 4 Walks (Excerpts): No. 4, A Walk to Strauss 02:42
• Jesper Nordin (b. 1971):
• 15 Nordin: Double Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra (Version for Violin, Double Bass & Piano) 16:43
• Carin Malmlöf-Forssling (1916 - 2005):
• 16 Malmlöf-Forssling: In memoriam (Transcr. R. Stotijn for Double Bass) 02:15
• Total Runtime 01:14:14

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For the past ten years Rick Stotijn has been making Stockholm his second home, finding musical inspiration as well as new friends there. The present disc is a reflection of this, with existing and new repertoire involving the double bass by composers who have all at some point lived and worked in the city. The oldest work, as well as the best known, is the Concerto for Double Bass by Eduard Tubin, composed in 1948. Stotijn performs it here with the support of his own orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan.

The other concerto on the disc was composed especially for Stotijn and for the violinist Malin Broman by Britta Byström. Infinite Rooms (2016) is a double concerto – in which the violinist switches between violin and viola – with inspiration from the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It was awarded the most important Swedish composition prize, Stora Christ Johnson-priset, in 2020, and comes with three ‘Walks’, potential encores which can also serve as bridges to the next work during the concert, be it by Schubert, Bruckner or Strauss. The orchestra heard in Infinite Rooms is the Västerås Sinfonietta, conducted by Simon Crawford-Phillips, who also appears on the disc in the role of pianist: Jesper Nordin’s Piano Trio, is an adaptation by the composer for these performers, of an earlier score for violin, cello and orchestra. Closing the disc is In memoriam by Carin Malmlöf-Forssling, a brief vocalise for soprano here transcribed for the double bass.

Malin Broman, violin
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Västerås Sinfonietta
Simon Crawford-Phillips, conductor
James Gaffigan, conductor

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