BERWALD : Complete Duos (Tobias Ringborg · David Bergström · Mats Rondin · Bengt-Åke Lundin) (2000) Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

For much of the nineteenth century in Sweden, music-making was confined to small-scale chamber music at home and ambitious composers had to move abroad to seek acceptance of their work. Whilst Berwald enjoyed some success in continental Europe, only a handful of his orchestral works were performed in Sweden during his lifetime. This caused him in later years to concentrate on chamber music, completing two piano quintets, two string quartets, three piano trios as well as duos for violin and piano and cello and piano. Berwald received much encouragement from his friend Liszt who praised Berwald’s invention, skill and elegant style whilst adding, somewhat prophetically: ‘you truly possess originality but you will not enjoy success during your lifetime. Nevertheless you must persevere.’ naxos
FRANZ BERWALD (1796-1868)
1-3.    Duo In D Minor For Violin And Piano (1858)    (18:22)
4.    Fantasy On Two Swedish Folk-Melodies For Piano Solo (1850)    7:29
5.    Concertino In A Minor For Violin And Piano – Fragment (1859)    2:40
6-8.    Duo Concertant In A Minor For Two Violins (1816)    (24:28)
9-11.    Duo In B Flat Major For Cello And Piano (1857)    (17:07)
Credits : 
Cello – Mats Rondin
Cover [painting] – Johan Way
Piano – Bengt-Åke Lundin
Violin – David Bergström (tracks: 6 to 8), Tobias Ringborg

BERWALD · STENHAMMAR · AULIN : Swedish Romantic Violin Concertos (Niklas Willén · Swedish Chamber Orchestra · Tobias Ringborg) (1999) Two Version | FLAC (image+tracks+.cue), lossless

For much of the nineteenth century in Sweden, music-making was confined to small-scale chamber music at home. Ambitious composers had to move abroad to seek acceptance of their work. Berwald’s Violin Concerto was performed only once in Sweden during his lifetime, and on that occasion the audience laughed. It was not until a century later, when Tor Aulin and Wilhelm Stenhammar led a Berwald revival, that this sparkling work was performed throughout Europe. Stenhammar’s two Romances were written during one of the most creative periods of his life. Full of feeling, they are models of the genre. The two Romances were given their first performance by Tor Aulin, whose own Violin Concerto No. 3 belongs firmly to the world of Brahms and the central European romantic tradition. naxos
FRANZ BERWALD (1796-1868)
1-3.    Violinkonsert I Ciss-Moll, Op 2    (21:38)
WILHELM STENHAMMAR (1871-1927)
4-5.    Två Sentimentala Romanser, Op 28
TOR AULIN (1866-1914)
4-8.    Violinkonsert Nr 3 I C-Moll, Op 14 (30:59)
Credits : 
Conductor – Niklas Willén
Cover [Omslagsbild - "Hoga-dal På Tjörn"] – Karl Nordström
Orchestra – Svenska Kammarorkestern
Violin – Tobias Ringborg