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This list may not be complete, but it covers the most important CDs.  Some of the older CDs have likely gone out of print.  If you are unable to obtain a Peterson-Berger CD of interest from a supplier such as Amazon or Allegro Imports, we suggest you contact the Swedish Music Information Center.  They have a large data base concerning recordings of works by Swedish composers.  You may contact the Swedish Music Information Center (STIM) by e-mail at swedmic@stim.se.  They also have a website at www.mic.stim.se. For information about recordings, choose the English version and press the SWEDISH MUSIC SHOP button.

 

ORCHESTRAL WORKS.

1.  Symphony No. 3 (Same-Ätnam), Romance for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Gullebarn’s Lullabies (Song Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra).  Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.  Conductor:  Siegfried Köhler; Mezzosoprano:  Anne Sofie von Otter; Violin:  Mats Zetterqvist.  Total Time: 70'49.  Musica Sveciae, MSCD 630, DDD.  Production Date 1992.

 

2.  Symphony No. 2 (Sunnanfärd), Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.  Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.  Conductor:  Stig Westerberg; Violin:  Nilla Pierrou.  Total Time: 75'29.  Phono Suecia Echo, PSCD 95, AAD.  Production Date 1996.  Originally on LPs from 1968 (Concerto) and 1977 (Symphony).  

 

3.  Symphony No. 1 (Baneret), Symphony No. 5 (Solitudo).  Royal Opera Orchestra.  Conductor:  Leif Segerstam.  Total time: 72'48.
Sterling CDS-1006-2, DDD.  Production Date 1997. 

 

4.  Symphony No. 1 (Baneret), Suite "Last Summer".  Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken.  Conductor:  Michail Jurowski.  Total time: 69'44.  cpo 999 561-2, DDD.  Production Date 1998.

 

5.  Symphony No. 2 (Sunnanfärd), Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Oriental Dance, Prelude to the Cantata "Sveagaldrar".  Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.  Conductor:  Michail Jurowski; Violin:  Ulf Wallin.  Total time: 69'43.  cpo 999 564-2, DDD.  Production Date 1998.

 

6.  Symphony No. 3 (Same-Ätnam), Suite "Earina".  Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.  Conductor:  Michail Jurowski. Total time: 70'55.  cpo 999 632-3, DDD.  Production Date 2000.

 

7.  Symphony No. 4 (Holmia), Suite "Törnrossagan", Suite No. 1 "Frösöblomster".  Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.  Michail Jurowski.  Total time: 65'55.  cpo 999 669-2, DDD.  Production Date 2001. 

 

8.  "Frösöblomster", Frösö Flowers and Other Pieces.  Various Symphony Orchestras.  Conductors:  Mats Olsson, Egon Kjerrman, Stig Rybrant, Lennart Hedwall.  Total time: 45'20.  Swedish Society Discofil SCD 1109, Prophone Records AB.  Production Date 2000.  Made from Recordings from 1957-1974.

 

WORKS FOR PIANO.

 

1.  The Complete Piano Music, Volume 1.  "The Ladies' Album".  Contains 18 piano pieces -- individual works and pieces from The Ladies Album and Tone-Paintings.  Piano:  Olof Höjer.  Total time: 72'45.  Swedish Society Discofil SCD 1086.  Prophone Records AB.  Production Date 2000.

 

2.  The Complete Piano Music, Volume 2.  "Last Summer."  Contains 20 piano pieces -- individual works and pieces from Six Piano Tunes, Four Dance Poems, and Last Summer.  Piano:  Olof Höjer. Total time: 71'52. Swedish Society Discofil SCD 1087.  Prophone Records AB.  Production Date 2001.

 

3.  "Frösöblomster."  Contains 21 piano pieces from all three volumes.  Piano: Noriko Ogawa. Total time: 67'17.  BIS  Records BIS-CD-925.  Production Date 1998.

 

4.  "Flowers from Frösö Island:  Melodies, Humoresques, and Idylls for Piano."  Contains 21 piano pieces from all three volumes. Piano: Niklas Sivelöv.  Total time: 64'23.  Naxos 8.554343.  LC 05537.  DDD.  Production Date 1999.

 

5.  "Frösöblomster:  Humoresques and Idylls for Piano."  Contains 21 piano pieces from all three volumes.  Piano: Lars Roos. Total time: 64'37.  Philips 426 987-2  PG 925.  DDD.  Production Date 1990.

 

6.  "Frösöblomster."  Contains 21 piano pieces from all three volumes.  Piano: Stig Ribbing. Total time: 67'16.  EMI 4790842 Önskeklassiker 14.  Production Date 1993.  Made from a 1972 LP.

 

7. "Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: The Complete Piano Music, Volume 3, Färdminnen" (Memories of Travel).  Olof Höjer, Piano, Swedish Society Discofil, SCD 1088. Total time: 76'31.  Prophone Records AB, 2004.

 

WORKS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTAL COMBINATIONS.  (In some instances, arranged by other hands.)

 

1.  "Romantic Rhapsody",  Peterson-Berger, Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major (transcription of Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major).  Also, other works for cello and piano by Emil Sjögren, Ture Rangström, and Laura Netzel.  Cello:  Ola Karlsson; Piano:  Arne Torger.  Total time: 69'43.  Concello CD 1.  Production Date 2000.  Order from ConCello AB, Fågelsångsvägen 29, S 191 44 SOLLENTUNA, SWEDEN or by e-mail ola.karlsson@concello.se.

 

2.  Wilhelm Peterson-Berger:  Songs, Piano, and Violin Music.  Suite for Violin and Piano.  Seven Frösöblomster for Piano.  Eleven Songs.  Violin:  Bernt Lysell; Piano (Suite and Frösöblomster):  Esther Bodin; Tenor:  Nicolai Gedda; Piano (Songs): Jan Eyron. Total time: 58'35.  Bluebell ABCD 034.  ADD.  Production Date 1990. Originally on LPs made in 1980 and 1981.

 

3.  "Homage to Peterson-Berger"  Arrangements of Twelve Piano Pieces and Songs for Wind Ensemble plus three arias from the opera Arnljot.  Östersund Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Mats Janhagen; Singers: Carl Johan Falkman and Iwa Sörenson. Total time: 47'08.  ARTE CD 7131.  DDD.  Production Date 1989.

 

4.  "Dedikation!"  Romance for Violin. Andante from 2nd Violin Sonata.  Berceuse for Solo Cello. Arrangements of 13 other Peterson-Berger works for small wind ensemble.  Östersund Serenade Ensemble.  Conductor: Lennart Hedwall; Violin: Karl-Ove Mannberg; Cello: Ola Karlsson. Total time: 70'40.  Proprius PRCD 9127.  Production Date 1995.

 

5.  "The Romantic Swedish Flute."  Arrangements for Flute and Orchestral Strings of Six Frösöblomster plus "The Shepherd Girl's Dance" by Hugo Alfvén, Adagio Amoroso by Kurt Atterberg, Partita by Gösta Nyström, and Pastoral Suite by Gunnar de Frumerie.  Strings of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Flute: Göran Marcusson; Conductor:  Thord Svedlund. Total time: 63'34.  Intim Musik, Bos 57, 420 17 Olofstorp, Sweden. DDD. Production Date 1992.

 

6.  "Frösöblomster"  Arrangements for Horn, Voice, Trumpet, and Chorus by Stefan Lindgren. Members of The Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra. Horn: Bengt Belfrage; Soprano: Carina Petersson; Trumpet:  Urban Eriksson. Total time: 54'02.  Some of the pieces feature new lyrics in good, idiomatic English. Scandinavian Music Interest SMICD 007. DDD. Production Date 1996.

 

7.  "Nordic Spring."  Arrangements for Guitar, Violin, and Flute by Mats Bergström.  Contains Six Peterson-Berger works including five Frösöblomster plus works by Carl Nielsen, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg, and Joachim Andersen. Guitar: Mats Bergström; Violin: Christian Bergqvist; Flute: Per Flemström. Total time: 70'10.  Swedish Society Discofil SCD 1067. Prophone Records. Production Date 1995.

 

8.  "Voyage."  Arrangements for Flute, String Quartet, Harp, and Bass.  Three Frösöblomster arranged by Jerker Johansson. Other works by Gordon Jacob, Hugo Alfvén, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Arthur Foote, Alberto Ginastera, Katherine Hoover, Ernesto Kohler, John Corigliano, Maurice Ravel, and Ignace Jan Paderewski.  Flute:  Don Bailey; Arcata String Quartet: Marjorie Bagley and Christopher Takeda, Violins, Brant Bayless, Viola, Michael Carrera, Cello; Harp: Grace Paradise; Bass:  Scott Pingel.  Total Time 71’15.  Summit Records 239.  Phone Order Line 1-800-808-4449. E-mail sales@summitrecords.com. Production Date 1999.

 

9.  "Frösöblomster."  Arrangements for Flute and Piano of Fifteen Frösöblomster. Flute: Anna Norberg; Piano: Stefan Lindgren. Total time: 48'33. Scandinavian Music Interest SMICD-06.  DDD.  Production Date 1995.

 

VOCAL WORKS.

 

1.  "The Nicolai Gedda Collection of Swedish Songs:  Wilhelm Peterson-Berger."  Contains 28 Songs. Tenor: Nicolai Gedda; Piano: Jan Eyron.  Total time: 63'46.  Bluebell ABCD 035. ADD. Production Date 1991.  Made from a 1982 LP.

 

2.  "Wings in the Night."  Eight songs by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger plus songs by other Scandinavian composers. Soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter; Piano: Bengt Forsberg. Total time: 73'36. Deutsche Grammophon D112810.

 

3.  "Wilhelm Peterson-Berger:  Lieder." Contains 17 songs. Soprano:  Margareta Jonthe; Tenor: Helge Brilioth; Piano: Sven Alin. Total time: 52'39. BIS CD-42.

 

4.  "Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Songs and Frösöblomster." Contains eight songs for soloists and eight songs for mixed chorus. Soprano: Elisabeth Söderström; Tenor: Nicolai Gedda; Baritone: Erik Saedén; Piano: Stig Westerberg; Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Nils Grevillius; Uppsala University Chamber Choir, Director: Dan-Olof Stenlund. Total time: 69'40. Swedish Society Discofil SCD 3008.

 

5.  "Hemma Hos P.-B. (At Home with P-B)" Songs and Piano Pieces.  Soprano: Lena Moén; Piano: Lena Johnson. Total time: 71'00. Thomas Ljungqvist Studio TLSCD 7100.

 

6.  "Lyrical Songs and Ballads for Mixed Choir." Contains thirteen Peterson-Berger songs from a variety of sources. Also contains 14 songs by Hugo Alfvén and four songs by Wilhelm Stenhammar. Uppsala University Chamber Choir, Conductor: Stefan Parkman. Total time: 67'59. Musica Sveciae Swedish Music Anthology MSCD 612E. DDD. Production Date 1988.

 

7.  "Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Songs for Mixed Choir."  Songs from Five Poems from Arne, Eight Songs for Mixed Choir, From Ten Songs, and From Songs for Mixed Choir.  Mikaeli Chamber Choir, Director: Anders Eby; Soprano: Helena Ströberg; Baritone: Gunnar Birgersson. Total time: 58'55. Bluebell ABCD 030. DDD. Production Date 1990.

 

8.  "Choral Music from Scandinavia."  Contains eight Peterson-Berger songs plus songs by Grieg, Norman, and Söderman. Junges Vorkalensemble Hannover, Director: Klaus-Jürgen Etzold. Total time: 68'10. Carus 83.147.

 

9.  "Female Fates and Fortunes." Contains three Peterson-Berger songs plus songs by Grieg, Alfvén, and Heise. Soprano: Randi Stene; Piano:  Burkhard Kehring. Simax PSC 1145. Total time: 60'21.

 

10. "28 Songs." Soprano: Gunnel Bohman; Baritone: Thomas Lander; Piano: Anders Kilström. Musica Sveciae MSCD 619 (1994). Total time: 62'22.

 

11. "Peterson-Berger och poeterna" (Peterson-Berger and the Poets). Solveig Faringer, Soprano; Lena Johnson, Piano. Nosag CD 091. Total time 56'46.

 

Note:  CDs of Jussi Björling performances normally have several Peterson-Berger songs.

 

Discography by E. Thomas Strom <tomstrom@juno.com>