Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927):
Sanger / Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter
Hakan Hagegar, Bengt Forsberg, Thomas Schuback.
Von Otter & Hagegard Do Stenhammar Proud
By Ronald Gold on August 21, 2013
Wilhelm Stenhammar had a surge of popularity some years ago, but has fallen back to the fringes of the repertory of late. This is really too bad, because Stenhammar may be Sweden's greatest composer, and his combination of lyricism and intellectual rigor is likely to appeal to a wide spectrum of current listeners. Of special note are these extraordinarily attractive songs, related only tangentially to the contemporaneous German lied.
